HIPS stands for High-Impact Polystyrene. It extrudes at the same temperature as the ABS (235C) and adheres well to a heated bed kept at 115C. ABS will be unaffected by the hydrocarbon solvent ...

The aim of the project is to take waste plastic, in this case high-impact polystyrene, and reform it into a brick that could be used as a low-cost building material. The material is shredded ...

The business employs 140 people and consists mostly of BASF's 850 million-lb-per-year general-purpose and high-impact ... polystyrene business is suffering from overcapacity, high raw material ...

UBQ Materials, which makes a thermoplastic substitute from household waste, announced two new partnerships. PepsiCo, one of the world’s largest food and beverage companies, will use UBQ material ...

High-impact polystyrene (HIPS) nanocomposites were prepared by melt compounding two grades of organoclays (Cloisite 10A (C10A) and Cloisite 30B (C30B)) in a Haake internal mixer or a corotating ...

It can also be radiation sterilized. When modified by incorporating elastomers, polystyrene homopolymer turns into (high) impact polystyrene or HIPS, which is usually opaque. As a result, a wide ...

As in zero waste, zero landfill. CVI’s Rhonda Bunn The company’s devotion to sustainability is embodied by its efforts to recover value from the high-impact polystyrene (HIPS) that makes up its toner ...

These include general-purpose grades 656D and 685D, as well as high-impact variants A-tech 1175, A-tech 1180, 438, 470/486M, and XQ83180, widely used in the production of appliances such as ...

AKRON, OHIO (April 26, 2:10 p.m. ET) — Diverging feedstock trends have sent North American prices for high-impact polystyrene resin up since March 1, while PET bottle resin prices have declined ...

Resirene, the largest polystyrene resin producer in Mexico, will produce the first-ever high-impact polystyrene with UBQ. It’s expected to be the most sustainable polystyrene in the world, ...