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Plastics rambling and other personal thoughts from Greg Koskien-US2012-12-09T18:32:30-05:00Molding 2013-Dec.15, 2012 Last Day for Registration Discount
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Just a quick note about Molding 2013 being held in New Orleans from January 21-23 Molding 2013 Vital Technologies for Business Success in a Changing Global Market The last day for discount registration is Dec 15th, so if you're going, get registered this week. Sounds like it is going to be very worthwhile, and they do know where to hold conferences! :-) ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The 23rd International Conference & Exhibit MOLDING 2013 will focus on important innovations in manufacturing technologies of consumers and industrial products. Industry leaders will present the latest developments in various injection molding processes, hardware and...PlasticsGreg Koski2012-12-09T18:32:30-05:00Plasticity Rio '12
https://blogs.plastics.com/just_one_word/2012/07/plasticity-rio-12-.html
(OK it's been a while, so shoot me :-) ) Again on plastics and the environment, my favorite blogging topic. The UN conference Rio+20 Earth Summit just completed in, well.. Rio. They held many side events, one of which was directly related to plastics and was called Plasticity Rio '12. A few important things to note. Here, the world's leading environmentalists are discussing plastics issues and from our industry you barely hear a whisper of it. Too bad. Now I'm in an odd place finding myself agreeing with many points made. Anyone who has read my blogs knows I love...EnvironmentPlasticsGreg Koski2012-07-09T11:03:52-04:00Plast-Ex Canada Trade Show Report by Formech Inc.
https://blogs.plastics.com/just_one_word/2011/06/plast-ex-canada-trade-show-report-by-formech-inc.html
Nic Neath of our partner, Formech Inc., is reporting from Plast-Ex in Toronto, Canada where his company is exhibiting the latest in thermoforming (vacuum-forming) equipment. His report is encouraging for the industry in general as he reports a lot of traffic, a lot of interest. Nic's Comments from his 'Day Two' notes... - plenty of trade thermoformers - loads of people that are into injection molding. They are always surprised by the low cost of our machines and tooling. Some even considered Formech for their single cavity molds. - a lot of the show goers where from Canada but there...PlasticsGreg Koski2011-06-25T08:53:12-04:00Welcome Blackwell Plastics to the blogs.plastics.com family
https://blogs.plastics.com/just_one_word/2011/03/welcome-blackwell-plastics-to-the-blogsplasticscom-family.html
Blackwell Plastics partners with OEM manufacturers and sub-tier suppliers in South Texas including Houston, San Antonio, Austin and Corpus Christi to provide plastic injection molding and plastic extrusion of engineering grade resins that satisfy demanding industrial applications. Blackwell Plastics supports plastic injection molding and plastic extrusion projects from design to fulfillment. Blackwell's engineers are now blogging on plastics.com. You can find them at plastics.com/bwp Their project engineers provide assistance in product design, material selection and tooling. Blackwell Plastics has full service in house plastic injection mold and plastic extrusion die building capabilities. Injection molding and extrusion are supported by an...Greg Koski2011-03-10T09:35:44-05:00Are directory submissions (like buyersguide.plastics.com) of value?
https://blogs.plastics.com/just_one_word/2011/01/are-directory-submissions-like-buyersguideplasticscom-of-value.html
Morning, Today I'm mentioning the value, or effectiveness, of directory submissions to a sites google rankings. Some SEO'ers (especially those that are selling stuff) will tell you submissions are no longer valuable, you should just use (insert SEO tool or service here). It's bull. Now lets bring this to relevance to the plastics industry. The directories we are discussing are business directories where one can go in and submit their web site to be included in that directory. Examples of such directories include: http://buyersguide.plastics.com http://www.polymerdirectory.com/ http://www.plasticsnewsdirectory.com/ and so on... The question is, "If I take the time to enter myself...Greg Koski2011-01-24T09:29:24-05:00Free Plastics.com Buyers Guide Entry & Link Building
https://blogs.plastics.com/just_one_word/2011/01/free-plasticscom-buyers-guide-entry-link-building.html
Hi all, Today I want to remind folks that plastics.com has a buyers guide that allows for a free listing. Our membership includes over 5,000 members ID'ed as purchasing agent. The guide is located at buyersguide.plastics.com Now, in addition to us here simply wanting our directory to be very full, there is a reason that EVERY PLASTICS FIRM in the world should WANT to be listed here. That reason? Link Building! As google's search engine algorithm has evolved over the years, mainly in trying to subvert black hat seo-ers, google has become much more sophisticated in the details of what...PlasticsWeb/TechGreg Koski2011-01-12T09:42:42-05:00Finally, someone agrees w/me regarding the Gyres
https://blogs.plastics.com/just_one_word/2011/01/finally-someone-agrees-wme-regarding-the-gyres.html
It was nice to see someone agree with me! Scientists from Oregon State University state: claims that the “Great Garbage Patch” between California and Japan is twice the size of Texas are grossly exaggerated claims that the oceans are filled with more plastic than plankton, and that the patch has been growing tenfold each decade since the 1950s are equally misleading it is simply inaccurate to state that plastic outweighs plankton, or that we have observed an exponential increase in plastic The full article is a plastics.com "plastics NEws Today" top story, and the article link is here: Media Portrayal...Greg Koski2011-01-06T07:13:17-05:00My News Years Resolution... Blog More and Now Some History
https://blogs.plastics.com/just_one_word/2011/01/my-news-tears-resolution-blog-more.html
Ok, so I take a year off here and there, so what? Anyway, some news on plastics.com if you haven't visited lately. This June 20th will mark our official tenth birthday using the domain name plastics.com! Even older than that, we started in 1994 as polylinks, then polymers.com early in 1995! Here is the History of Polymers.com - Plastics.com In 1994, a small high-tech compounder of engineering plastics, Phoenix Polymers Inc., launched the first plastics portal as part of it's corporate web site. That section of the site was known as Poly-Links. Wildly popular, in 1995, it was spun off...PlasticsGreg Koski2011-01-03T08:58:26-05:00The Plastics Gyre... The Plastic Blob? or the newest nation on earth: plastics.com
https://blogs.plastics.com/just_one_word/2010/01/the-plastics-gyre-the-plastic-blob-or-the-newest-nation-on-earth-plasticscom.html
So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' Ok, maybe I'm not 'that' mad, but almost. It isn't the first time this non-fact has gotten to me, it gets me everytime I read it. This time it was here but I'll quote it for you; "The famous (or infamous) Texas-sized blob of plastic...PlasticsGreg Koski2010-01-05T17:57:57-05:00Are bio plastics competing with food crops?
https://blogs.plastics.com/just_one_word/2009/12/are-bio-plastics-competing-with-food-crops.html
Thats the question we are asking today... Are bio plastics competing with food crops? Are we just replacing one problem with another? Just read a great article on Cereplast's technology to make plastics from potatoes and algae but it didn't address the question: in a world w/hungry people, does crop based plastics make sense? Frederic Scheer, the CEO of Cerplast and it's main inventor of the technologies does make the claim that "Each time you create one kilo of traditional polypropylene, you create 3.15 kilos of carbon dioxide. When we create one kilo of bio-propylene, we create 1.40 kilos of...Greg Koski2009-12-21T10:35:26-05:00