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ocean recovered plastic
Montrose now offers plastics processed from waste recovered from the ocean or aquatic-adjacent areas such as beaches and streambeds. These high-quality polypropylene and polyethylene thermoplastics have been recovered, cleaned, and reprocessed by Ocean Plastics Technologies, which employs cutting-edge methods to solve one of the world’s most pressing problems, ocean waste, by turning it into materials that can economically replace virgin plastics on your next injection molding project. These materials are even offered in a wide range of colors.
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recycled plastics
Montrose now offers a line of post-consumer and post industrial thermoplastics that have been produced from recycled parts that would have otherwise ended up in our oceans, rivers, or landfills. Formerly limited to just a few materials in one color, the number of available resin has exploded to include PE, PP, PS, ABS, GPS, and others in a wide array of colors. Find out how your next job could be one that helps solve the problem of global plastic waste.
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cellulose filled PPT
Cellulose fiber is a natural polymer found in trees. When added to plastic resins as a additive, the resulting product is sustainable, strong, flexible, and nonabrasive to tooling. Another key benefit is that cellulose filled plastics are roughly 40% less dense than materials reinforced with glass fiber. Additionally, weight reduction and reduced cooling time have reduced molding costs when compared to materials such as PP and HIPS. Start a chat by clicking on the link below to request more information.
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polyhydroxyalkanoates
This innovative plastic alternative is bio and marine degradable. For this reason, it is one of the thermoplastic options most friendly to our environment. Once molded, it has mechanical characteristics similar to polypropylene and high-impact poly styrene. It can be used in applications that must be impact resistant, such as plastic cutlery, and can be molded in living hinges, such as sealable containers. Start a chat by clicking on the link below to request more information.
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polylactic acid
This bio-plastic is biodegradable in a composting environment. Naturally transparent, it can be used for clear applications, but its brittleness is similar to General Purpose Polystyrene. To combat this, PHA an be used as an impact modifier when blended into PLA at 15 – 25%. While it has many uses, it is commonly used for food packaging. Start a chat by clicking on the link below to request more information.
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hemp filled plastic
Montrose offers a variety of hemp-filled plastics. 25% hemp-filled ABS, PE, PP and PLA are available for trialing and production. Hemp derivative industries such as CBD oil, clothing and accessories have resulted in enormous stockpiles of spent hemp bi-products which engineers have begun using as a filler for various plastics in order to create thermoplastics that process easily, warp and sink less, and cool faster. All of these characteristics result in a part that looks better, processes faster and introduces much less carbon-based plastic into the environment.
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