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Resources

Check out this page for important equipment resources, such as videos, specification sheets, and useful links to specialty sites.

Educational Videos

 Servo Hydraulic Injection Molding Machine

Watch this informative video about the inner workings of our high-end precision servo-hydraulic injection molding machine, and the critical competitive advantages it provides.

A brief history of injection molding presented by Moldflow.

 

Promotional video issued by the Plastic Industry Association

Check out this educational video about various stages of plastics foam recycling. 

Courtesy of the Todd Sutton, aka Waste Sleuth. 

Instructional video presented by the Orange Plastics Academy. It introduces the seven most popular types of plastics in use today: PE, PP, ABS, PA, PC, PEO and PET.

Courtesy of the Orange Plastics Academy. 

Check out this educational video about the SPI codes, what plastic material they represent, and how they recycle. 

SPI (Society of the Plastic Industry) codes were first introduce in 1988 to identify different types of resins. Since, they have become the recycling symbol  for each plastic part. 

Very informative video about the most popular types of plastic molding processes used by the industry today: extrusion, blow, injection, thermoforming, compression and rotational.

Courtesy of Plascon Plastics, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Plastic Injection Molding

An engineer’s perspective of the physics of the injection molding processes.

Courtesy of Bill Hammack,  The Engineer Guy

A brief history of plastics

Trace the history of the invention of plastic, and how the material ushered in what became known as the plastics century.

How recycling works

Explore what happens to your stuff after you toss it into the little green bin with the arrows on it.

Courtesy of SciShow

How to make a shredder

How to make Shredding Machine at home – Amazing DIY Machine Destroys Everything.

Courtesy of V.Idea 

Equipment Resources Videos

Granulating Equipment Resources

Slow Speed Granulator

Features and components of one of our Slow Speed Granulators with a demonstration using this machine to turn scrap plastics into tiny plastic granules.

Tire Shredding

Demonstration of a tire shredding machine used in the process of recycling tires.

Plastic Lump and Purge Shredding

Demonstration of shredder being used to shred plastics lumps and purges.

Big Volume Combo Unit Shredder & Granulator

Demonstration of an industrial plastics recycling line consisting of an infeed conveyor, a big volume shredder, a discharge conveyor followed by a heavy-duty granulator.

Combo Equipment Resource

Shredder & Granulator Combo Unit Features Walkthrough

Learn about the various components that make up our popular Shredder & Granulator Combo unit, from the infeed hopper, shredder rotor with cutting knives, granulator rotor, screens, to the heavy-duty gearboxes and electrical motors, and finally the master control panel.

All About Plastics

Plastics Identification

101 introduction to plastic materials, processes, and applications, courtesy of Plastic Industry.

Take your time to read it!

If you’re new to the industry, you will learn a lot. If you are a veteran, it’s an excellent refresher.

Topic

  1. A Look at Plastics
  2. Types of Plastics
  3. Processing Methods
  4. Injection Molding
  5. Recycling
  6. Plastics and the Environment

Material Safety Data Sheet for
SPI-Coded Plastics

Courtesy American Polymer Standards Company 

Plastic’s SPI Code

  1. PET       Polyethylene Terephthalate
  2. HDPE   High Density Polyethylene
  3. PVC      Polyvinyl Chloride
  4. LDPE    Low Density Polyethylene
  5. PP         Polypropylene
  6. PS         Polystyrene

Link

  1. link: PET _ MSDS
  2. link: HDPE_MSDS
  3. link: PVC_MSDS
  4. link: LDPE_MSDS
  5. link: PP_MSDS
  6. link: PS_MSDS