Humans like to communicate in acronyms, abbreviations and inside lingo. After I set up an appointment for a medical test, I got a call back. They said I didn’t have an oth. ” What’s an oth ?” ” An authorization, sir ” Brings to mind the scene in ” The Heat” The flexible packaging business …
Product development is a rough, bumpy ride with no certain outcome. It’s always a bracketing process which requires many iterations no matter how methodical the approach.Sir James Dyson thrives on failure. His vacuum cleaner has been through 5,126 versions. Well tested products often result in recalls. What replaces a bad idea ? A better one, …
Like any industry which matures, there is first a dynamic growth curve followed by the inevitable consolidation wave. The blown PE film business is both consolidating and contracting. By the 1920’s, there was a proliferation of automobile manufacturers in the thousands. Aerospace didn’t havethousands of airplane manufacturers, but maybe hundreds. An early map of the Kimberley …
It’s cliche but true – when milk is cheap, why buy a cow ? Peter Drucker said it is better to integrate upstream than downstream. The case for vertical integration play involves payback analysis and other factors. Henry Ford made his own power mainly because he was fed up with dirty intermittent power. I can …
When George W. Bush asked the premier of China what kept the premier up at night, the response was “finding jobs for 25 million people a year.” Products in the mature life-cycle stage are imported everyday to the US at artificially low prices. Why does the U S government let this happen ? Why is …
Shelf life is subjective. The definition of “use by” or “sell by” date depends on criteria and varying degrees of emphasis. These dates are understandably conservative. Let’s look at both the judging criteria and interdependent factors affecting shelf life. The judging criteria are: odor and taste appearance textureObviously the most common …
The acronyms HMWHDPE and UHMWHDPE are confusing. This discussion breaks down high molecular weight jargon. Starting with the MW bit – MW is short for molecular weight. MWD, or molecular weight distribution is the full name. Accoring to Handbook of Polyethylene by Andrew Peacock: ” The size of a polyethylene molecule is normally described in terms of …
Polyethylene is comprised of long chains of the building block ethylene monomer. Ethylene monomerC2H4 ( or just “C2” for short ) looks like this in English Ethylene monomer occurs naturally in both natural gas and as a component of naptha – the portion of a barrel of oil which cannot be refined into gasoline or oil. …
A plastic film spec properly crafted by a packaging machine manufacturer ensures that the film can always be blamed That’s what an OEM told me last week. Over the years, we have tried to partner with packaging machine manufacturers with no success. Now I know why at the tender young age of 63. We have …
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