The latest research and insights on leading developments in the plastics industry. Find product explanations, properties, comparison charts and application ideas all at a glance.
Do you monitor the Peak Internal Air Temperature (PIAT) in your Rotomolding process? If not, you should. And here’s why. Our document on monitoring Peak Internal Air Temperature (PIAT) helps explain the many benefits of this diagnostic tool and how it can improve the quality of your roto-molded parts and why every roto-molder should use it.
Would you like to learn more about how to reduce many of your roto-molded part quality issues by simply applying your mold release agents properly? Our tricks-of-the-trade about mold release will benefit you and your team and help reduce your quality costs.
At Entec, new challenges mean new opportunities and with over thirty-five years of experience in the automotive sector our technical experts are ready to match your EV application specifications with the resin that best meets your project’s needs. Learn more about Entec’s EV solutions HERE!
Looking for sustainable plastic solutions? Let Entec Polymers help you meet your sustainability goals with our bio-polymers, recycled resins and degradable / compostable materials. We can help you design for circularity!
Working on a new project and unsure what NSF approved materials will work in your application? Entec Polymers has the products and expertise to help you select the optimal plastic material to meet your requirements as well as meeting the required NSF regulations necessary for your application.
Are you looking for a clear polymer with sparkling clarity, high gloss, shatter resistance and easy processing? Then look no more! Consider K-Resin® Styrenic Block Copolymers from Entec Polymers. K-Resin® SBC offers easy processing with high clarity and high gloss for injection molding, blow molding, blown film, and sheet extrusion and thermoforming.
Do you want to learn more about how properly venting molds in rotational molding can reduce your scrap rate? Learn our tricks and tips on how to properly vent a mold.
Are you looking for a handy reference table to get a quick idea if a particular type of polymer may be suitable for your desired sterilization method? If so, then check out Entec Polymer’s Sterilization Table. It provides an overview for a wide range of polymer types and if they are suitable for various sterilization methods.
Does your application require high impact, high temperature resistance and good dimensional stability? Perhaps you may want to consider CHIMEI WONDERLOY® PC/ABS alloys as your material choice? Entec Polymers technical representatives can assist you in selecting the WONDERLOY® grade that best meets your applications performance needs.
Are you working on a new product development that requires crystal clear transparency, chemical resistance, and extreme toughness? Look no further than the EMS TR series of polymers. Let our team of product experts help you navigate the path to finding the optimal resin for your medical, automotive, or consumer durable application.
Entec Polymers offers a broad portfolio of generic prime polypropylene (PP) resins. This product family includes homopolymer, impact copolymer, and random copolymer resins, with a broad range of melt flow and additive packages.
Do you want to save time and labor costs and reduce scrap in your Rotational Molding secondary operations? Then take a few minutes to review our critical-to-quality operation of mold parting line maintenance that we truly believe can help improve your quality and bottom line.
Material selection made easier. We are always ready to help assist you in selecting the best resin for your application. This guide lists applications, key criteria, resin recommendations and polymer trade names from leading suppliers in the automotive industry.
Looking for more polyethylene options? In addition to prime polyethylene, Entec Polymers also offers HYPEL® generic prime HDPE, LDPE and LLDPE. Contact your Entec Polymers sales representative for more information on these products.
Check out our new Automotive Resin Selection Guide. This guide gives you an overview of commonly used polymer materials for automotive applications including powertrain/underhood as well as interior and exterior.
Entec Polymers offers a broad portfolio of generic prime GPPS and HIPS. Our product and technical teams can help you determine the best product to meet your application needs.
Are you looking for modifiers for your engineering resin compounds? Then look no further. Entec Polymers offers a range of impact modifiers and compatibilizers for engineering resins such as Nylon, ABS, PC, PC Alloys, Polyesters, PLA and PPS. Let us help you select the best impact modifier for your compounding needs.
Are you looking for the right material for your cap and closure applications? Entec Polymers offers a broad range of HDPE, LLDPE, LDPE and PP options for every type of cap and closure. In addition, we can also support you with masterbatch additives including colors, nucleating agents and more.
Reduce, Reuse. RECYCLE. This is a common phrase that we all hear, but our Dictionary of Recycling Terms can help you clear up some of the confusion around specific words or phrases used in the recycling industry. Let our dictionary help you to increase your knowledge on terms, equipment, materials, and processes related to the recycling industry!
A condensed version of Entec Polymers portfolio of bio-based resins, compostable resins, post-industrial and post-consumer recycled resins, and enhancing additives to meet your needs.
Are you looking for a polymer with glass-like clarity, elevated temperature resistance, high water vapor barrier, and easy processability for your healthcare, packaging, optical or electronic application? Look no further than TOPAS® COC (Cyclic Olefin Copolymer) to meet all of your needs.
High-quality color and additive masterbatch concentrates for the plastics industry
Siri and Alexa not very helpful for unique plastics industry terms? Refer to Entec Polymers Dictionary of Plastic Industry Terms for more help. We’ve compiled a short list of specific plastic industry terms with easy to understand definitions that can help, especially if you’re newer to the plastics industry!
Are you looking for elastomers other than SBS to modify your bitumen compounds? Let Entec Polymers help you select alternate elastomers and modifiers for use in your bitumen formulations for roofing shingles, flexible roofing membranes, or bitumen pavement compounds.
Styroflex® PM VA 800 is a powdered version of Styroflex® 2G66, a SBC (styrene-butadiene block copolymer) with the properties of a S-TPE (styrene thermoplastic elastomer), developed for polymer modification and compatibilization.
Is your roto resin not flowing the way you need it to? Our Pulverized Resin Quality document can help explain why the quality of the pulverizing operation is critical to successful roto molding.
Are you looking to improve your plastic compounds? Let Entec Polymers help you with the right resins, impact modifiers, and compatibilizers to make your compounds exceptional!
Entec Polymers has significant knowledge and experience with the Dow VERSIFY™ Plastomers & Elastomer in a wide variety of applications, markets and industries. Let our technical specialists help you select the best VERSIFY™ product for your film, coating or compounding application.
Entec Polymers has a diverse line card for flexible and rigid packaging. Our business development and technical service teams can help optimize a material solution for any packaging need.
Do you need a transparent polymer but are confused by the many choices? Our Transparent Polymer Comparison Guide provides you with a comparison of several key properties for a number of common transparent polymers. This guide allows you to quickly and easily compare the transparent polymers and the properties that are important for your application. You can also reach out to our technical experts with any questions or for more assistance.
An overview that provides recommended conversion technologies for each product class offered by Entec Polymers.
Entec polymers has several options to meet your flame resistance needs on your plastics products. Let our expert team of plastics engineers help with product selection to ensure you meet UL94 5VA.
Entec Polymers has significant knowledge and experience with the Dow AFFINITY™ Polyolefin Plastomers and Elastomers in a wide variety of flexible packaging and extrusion coating applications, as well as in hot melt adhesives. Let our technical specialists help you select the best AFFINITY™ product for your film, coating, packaging and hot melt adhesive applications.
Entec Polymers has significant knowledge and experience with the Dow INFUSE™ Olefin Block Copolymer in a wide variety of applications, markets and industries. Let our technical specialists help you select the best INFUSE™ product for your compound, film, adhesive or product modification application.
Entec Polymers has significant knowledge and experience with the Dow ENGAGE™ Polyolefin Elastomers in a wide variety of applications, markets and industries. Let us help you select the best ENGAGE™ product for your application.
Are you looking for a quick way to match up plastic material resin types based on a specific processing method? Then check out our new Line Card Selection Guide by Processing Method and see how easy it can be!
Zylar® 631 belongs to Ineos Styrolution portfolio of MBS materials. Zylar® 631 offers a good balance of stiffness and toughness. A medium impact strength grade that offers good surface hardness, without compromising on clarity.
Ineos offers industry leading styrenics that excel in applications requiring clarity, strength, and toughness.
Looking for high performance impact modifiers for your polypropylene compounds? Let Entec Polymer’s experts assist you in selecting the right impact modifier for your specific application needs.
Are you looking to improve the impact of your nylon compounds? Let Entec Polymer’s experts help you to position the best impact modifier to meet the specific impact requirements you need in your nylon compound.
Does trying to understand UL 94 cause your hair to catch fire? Let Entec help you to understand what the UL 94 flammability testing means for your application.
Market demand is continuously increasing for high impact, flame retardant and heat resistance materials. Chimei's new Wonderloy products pushes the limits for what's possible in plastics.
Are you struggling with warpage issues in your roto-molded parts? Let Entec's roto-molding experts provide you with assistance to produce warp-free parts!
Having problems extruding profiles, tubes, or pipes? Turn to Entecs’ troubleshooting guide and technical experts for help. We have the experience, as well as, an extensive portfolio of material options to solve your extrusion problems.
Looking for a TPE with a high hardness? Looking for a TPE with a low hardness? Let Enplast help you with our range of TPEs that go from a low Shore OO to a high Shore D hardness and everything in between.
Looking for a purge compound? Entec Polymers offers several different and unique purge compound options. Let us help you select the right one for your needs!
Taking the time in order to keep process machinery and molds in prime condition is critical to a sustained business model. In this overview, we outline how a preventive maintenance program can help improve operational availability and mitigate unplanned down time.
Need to compare material hardness scales? Check out our handy Hardness Conversion Table comparing Shore 00, A and D with Rockwell R.
In this technical article, we investigate the most commonly overlooked processing set points when launching new molds or troubleshooting existing tools. Establishing a fill only viscosity curve, determining nominal shear rate, and optimizing barrel heats/recovery profile allow for molders to run a repeatable and consistent cycle.
Not sure which polymer is right one for your adhesive compound formulation? Let Entec Polymers help. We offer a variety of polymer types and grades for use in whatever type of adhesive compound you’re developing.
As a member of the Ravago Group, Entec Polymers strives to help customers implement a variety of materials in sustainability driven markets. Our wide variety of post consumer and post industrial feed streams in combination with the Ravago expertise in compounding ensures we can provide customers with products to meet future demand for sustainable plastics.
Antimicrobial Technology
Which mineral should you use in your PP compound application? Let Entec Polymers help you select the best one!
Key features and plastic material considerations for each part of a reusable face shield design.
Innovative sustainability solutions for the growing single serve food market. Re-engineering polymers in packaging for friendly recycling.
Are you looking to improve molded part release? Mold filling? Scratch and mar resistance? Color and filler dispersion? Or do you need to reduce melt fracture, extruder torque or coefficient of friction? Then let Entec Polymers help you select the right siloxane master-batch product for your application.
DOW™ BOOSTER throughput enhancer concentrate can significantly increase productivity in the extrusion of LLDPE films, whether monolayer or part of a co-extruded structure.
Dow RETAIN™ 3000 is a functional polymer which promotes compatibilization between polyolefin's and polar polymers such as nylon and EVOH and blends of polar polymers.
Dow ELVAX™ EVA copolymers are used in many applications including flexible packaging, thermal-lamination film, photovoltaic cells, foams, hose & tube, footwear, toys, wire & cable compounds, concentrates, athletic goods and hot-melt adhesives.
Dow CONPOL™ products are master-batch concentrates based on ethylene-methacrylic acid. They are designed to be used in Dow NUCREL™ and SURLYN™ resins, primarily in film and coating applications.
Dow BYNEL™ adhesive resins are functionalized polymers that provide adhesion between incompatible polymers together using various chemistries and technologies.
Dow APPEEL™ Peelable Resins are a one bag solution that delivers repeatable and proven performance for the easy peel market.
DOW™ 20 Series Ultra-Pure Polyethylene is produced using a proprietary process that produces a stress-crack resistant, ultra-pure LDPE with very high molecular weight, narrow molecular weight distribution and few short chains.
Dow NUCREL™ Acid Copolymers can be used in a wide range of applications including packaging, industrial and consumer products.
Dow SURLYN™ Ionomers have been used for many years in packaging applications, offering high clarity, high gloss, oil and grease resistance, puncture resistance, scratch resistance, excellent hot tack strength and superb thermoformability.
Unique Polymers Specifically Engineered to Resist Medical Disinfectants
Need to improve the impact of your nylon compound? FUSABOND™ can help!
Need to modify your resin? Improve the compatibility? ELVALOY™ can help!
The effects that varying molecular structures play on the rheological properties of various polymer families. The molecular architecture of each unique polymer structure ultimately determines which processes they are best suited to.
Stress whitening got you down? Let us help you eliminate it.
Need a quick lesson on impact testing? See our short overview on impact testing of plastics. Charpy | Izod | Multi-Axial
Celanese Ateva® EVA copolymers are used in many applications including flexible packaging, thermal-lamination film, photovoltaic cells, concentrates and hot-melt adhesives.
Entec is excited to announce the addition of four Dow specialty product families to our broad polymer portfolio. These specialty resins include BYNEL™ adhesive resins, APPEEL™ peelable sealant resins, DOW™ 20 Series ultra-pure polyethylene and CONPOL™ specialty masterbatches.
Is your rubber compound not quite performing? Let Entec Polymers help you with our broad range of modifiers that can be used in rubber compounds.
From molecular structure to mechanical properties: understanding how atomic structure influences material properties and part selection. As a follow up to our series on Crystallinity vs Material Properties, we investigate the influence that chemical structure has on final part performance including melting point, glass transition temperature, barrier properties, ESCR, and UV stability.
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If you want to understand how plastics really affect the environment, then you want to read this article.
The goal of understanding the relationship of shear rate and viscosity of a material is to increase the understanding of how a material process and flow once molten.
The goal of this resin information sheet is to better educate designers and manufacturers and provide them with the necessary information to enable them to choose the correct resin for their roto-molded products and applications.
Determination of crystallinity and general overview of the effects that crystal structure has on the physical properties of polymers.
Having problems with achieving good adhesion in your over-molding application? Let Entec Polymers help with their proven suggestions for achieving maximum adhesion of the over-mold material onto the substrate material.
There has been a lot of recent publicity related to plastic waste in the environment, especially plastic waste in the ocean. Learn more about the facts of plastic recycling.
Do you have a common application? A unique application? An interesting application? Entec Polymers can assist in helping you to select the right polymer to fit your application requirements regardless of how simple or complicated your needs may be.
Wire and Cable Compounds for Different Polymers
While injection molding is common inside the plastics industry, it is important to understand how to troubleshoot issues included with the job. Entec Polymers can assist with your processing needs to create an efficient work environment.
Pinking discoloration is a well-known phenomenon that occurs in polymers such as HDPE, LLDPE and polyolefin elastomers.
With recent publicity related to recycling plastic, it is important to understand which modifiers can be involved in different plastics. Entec polymers can offer information to help understand how they can affect recycled plastics.
Are you looking to electroplate an injection molded thermoplastic? Entec Polymers offers many different thermoplastics that are capable of being electroplated, along with valuable information to complete the process correctly.
This document highlights some of these more unique and interesting uses of thermoplastic resins. Entec Polymers has the knowledge and experience and is uniquely positioned to assist you with your most unique and challenging uses of thermoplastics resins. Let us help you deliver the solutions to your customer’s most challenging needs!
Regardless of the type of impact modifier or the polymer type it is being utilized in, there is one common factor: the reduction in the melt flow of the final compound.
Introduction to Polymer Compounding. Compounding is a melt blending process where a thermoplastic resin is combined with additives and reinforcements such as anti-oxidants, UV stabilizers, impact modifiers, colorants, flame retardants, glass fibers or minerals. The uses of thermoplastic compounds is only limited by our imaginations and our creativity in developing compounds to meet the end-use requirements.
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance and suggestions for processors that may be unfamiliar with processing post-industrial recycled plastic compounds, such as Entec Polymers ECHO® recycled polypropylene.
First steps when selecting a product for a new application
First steps when selecting a product for a new application.
Entec’s broad portfolio of sealant resin technologies is poised to satisfy all current packaging needs. Entec’s Packaging Team has an expansive knowledge of film structure, packaging machinery and sealing requirements to help ensure our customers success.
Formosa Plastics offer a broad range of Formolene reactor compounding Homopolymer and Copolymer resins that offer optimized polymer structures.
Processing issues and defects organized by causes and solutions. Contact our technical team for engineering and processing support.
A chart organizing different types of elastomers. Contact us to find the right properties and most cost effective material for your application.
Two Shot Technology with PP/ASA/Nylon & TPV. Entec offers a cost-effective solution to challenges caused by parts that require the use of two different plastics. Two Shot injection molding is a process that molds one part using two different plastic resins. This enabling technology allows you to integrate two different plastic resins into one part without any post-molding assembly.
A simplified introduction to the material we know as Polypropylene.