 Plastic
Product Design
As a plastic recycler, we are interested in supplying specialty polymers
and resins for making new plastic products. We are also interested in
expanding into new markets and new polymers for plastic product design.
Using recycled post industrial scrap, our specialty polymers include high
density polyethylene: NPI – 04HDPE Mixed Color, linear
and low density polyethylene: NPI – 01LL/LD Mixed
Color and polypropylene polymers: NPI – 10PP212
Mixed Color. All our polymers are reclaimed from plastic scrap and
are offer plastic processors a quality alternative to virgin resin. If you're
looking for a supplier of reprocessed scrap resins to mix with your virgin
resin, our products can be used to make new plastic products and are
available in pellet material form.
Designing a Plastic Product
The successful design of products using recycled plastic resins not only
requires the right product concept, but the right design tools and materials.
More than any other material, products made from plastic must be designed for
the process or method of production. Anybody can design a plastic product,
but it takes an expert knowledge of the molding process and how the process
should work to create a product that is cost efficient and something
consumers will want to buy.
Designing new plastic products can involve just plastics or a combination
of plastic and other materials. Plastic has very different structural
characteristics and properties than other materials, i.e., wood or metals.
But even a familiar term like stress has a very different implication for a
plastic product than it would have for other materials. The real question is
how do these differing material properties and characteristics effect the
design process?
Designing a product with 100% plastic is not always the best way to get
the most cost effective product. For the most part, plastics are pretty good
at handling intermittent loads, but will deform permanently under even low
applied loads over a long period of time. Since no amount of plastic can be
added to a design to overcome this problem, it is often a good idea to add a
load bearing material, i.e., wood or metal, to create a superior product.
Plastic Design and Resin Selection
Selecting the right material is critical to your successful design of a new
plastic product. Today's plastic designers are confronted with a myriad of
design considerations, coupled with an ever growing number of available
resins and specialty polymers. The problem lies in fully knowing what will be
required of the product in a wide range of environments along with
understanding the true functional behavior of the polymer. Like many other
materials, plastic has a host of different properties under the categories of
physical, mechanical, thermal, and electrical. There are also several
properties peculiar to plastic that are important for processing them.
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us today: Toll Free: 1.800.463.6169
The Ownership and Management
Nexcycle Plastics Inc.
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