In only a few weeks, PPE has become part of the common lexicon. Isolation gowns are fortunately not as in high demand as projected just a few weeks ago. Hospital supply chain managers are now thinking in terms of being prepared for summer and fall surges and stocking up for the next round. The term isolation gown …
Verbal shorthand when thrown around casually can lead to misunderstandings especially to an industry insider who takes these terms literally. Herewith is a short explanation of some common acronyms for plastic films in plain English starting with the basic chemical building block. The only thing common to all three is ethylene, C2H4 or ” C2″ …
In a crisis, political correctness and platitudes get relegated to abeyance. Only weeks ago the bane of our existence was plastics. Bashing plastic straw men reached a tipping point in 2019. The Fauci ” curve ” would be an outbreak spike without plastics. Here we go again. In the aftermath of hurricane Harvey, plastics came to …
Everybody wants replacements for politically incorrect plastic films to be exactly like the original. No property trade-offs. No exaggeration. Would these same people expect the same results from direct substitution of stevia, xylitol or saccharin ? There are many drivers. Back in the 1990’s when PVC started to fall out of favor, we got calls …
The ship date for custom PE film involves much more than a first-come-first-serve queue. An extruder who runs their backlog in this fashion or has a salesman running the backlog is not long for this world. This is nothing new. Egyptologists have determined that customers and suppliers have been at loggerheads for thousands of …
Giant retailers and consumer product companies are frantic to be perceived as green and sustainable. Meantime, the major plastic resin producers are doubling down on conventional fossil-fuel based resins. Sounds like a script straight out of The Innovator’s Dilemma. ” Gen 1 ” is defined as plastics derived from fossil fuels. “Gen 2” is plastic derived from agricultural sources …
Post Consumer Recycled Content ” Gen 3 ” Solution ? Read More »
Part of Harvey’s aftermath will be a shortage of plastics. The general public cannot see it yet. Many plastic processors and especially their customers are in denial. Many large processors have shut down and sent their employees home. For us old timers, recent events conjure up shortages of 1973 – 1974, 1998 and 2005. The …
While spring cleaning, we found a cache of 1960’s era letters from Union Carbide. The letters were from big shot execs in the mid-town Manhattan offices. All were perfectly individually typed with no errors ( whiteout probably did not yet exist ). While Don Draper was working on ads for mass marketing, the …
Cradle-to-Cradle, Recyclability, Sustainability and reclamation have historically been low priorities in design considerations. The biggest obstacle to these goals is dissimilar materials in the same product. Just as form follows function, selection of raw materials teamed up to do a job is determined by the properties raw materials can deliver. Recycle Across America correctly attributes the …
Excelling in the art of
blown film for over 50 years.
Phone: 314.968.1135
For custom, manufacturer direct pricing, call 800.466.1135 or email Sam Longstreth
Address: 6035 Lindell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63112
PO Box 16805, St. Louis MO 63105
Copyright ® 2022 Brentwood Plastics, Inc.
or Call Now
314 – 968 – 1135
