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Plastic Packaging
PPI offers industry the opportunity to improve plastics processing and
products for packaging applications through factory automation and advanced
engineering and manufacturing techniques. Research and development
capabilities are as follows:
- Develop and build a
knowledge base of processing and performance/cost characteristics for semicrystalline, heat set, and amorphous
thermoplastic polymeric materials, such as polyesters, polypropylene,
polyethylene, and polystyrene resins
- Develop and design advanced
process and product technology for commercial scale-up of plastic
packaging
- Selection of optimum
plastic materials based on end-user cost and performance requirements
- Prototype part
design/development of monolayer and multi-layer packaging
- Design and produce
innovative packaging products through formulation and compounding
technology
- Develop sheet and
thermoformed packages using both plant scrap and post-consumer recycled
(PCR) resins as major components of multi-layered structures for
applications requiring environmentally friendly packaging
- Rapid Prototyping
Laboratory provides Finite Element Analysis and Computer Aided Design
(CAD). The latter can be directly coupled to stereolithography
which can produce a packaging model within a day.
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