Varisport, a manufacturer of commercial slideboards used in professional sports performance training facilities, fitness gyms, and physical therapy offices was looking to replace costlier ash wood bumpers on their home line of slideboards.
Article in Recycling Today summarizes low constant pressure processing technology and highlights successful results of an AGS Technology and iMFLUX partnership.
AGS Technology is exhibiting at the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce (APACC) East-West Business Connection March 5, 2020 in Livonia-MI. Visit our booth to meet the AGS team and discuss your opportunity.
AGS Technology’s George Staniulis will be a Speaker at the Plastics In Motion 2020 conference, March 11th at 3:00PM in New Orleans, LA. George will be co-presenting “Automotive Applications of Low-Constant Pressure Technology to Injection-Mold...
Every plastic material has a unique performance “fingerprint” that identifies not only the polymer type but reinforcement level as well. AGS Technology’s raw material testing laboratory has the equipment and skilled personnel to run and analyze...
Unfilled polypropylene has rather low impact and stiffness. As a result, polypropylene materials are often modified to improve their mechanical properties. To improve stiffness the polypropylene can be compounded with short glass fiber (SGF-PP) or long...
The short answer is no. There are no special tooling modifications required to mold Injectoblend™ recycled materials. A common misperception is that the shrink characteristics for virgin materials are different than their recycled equivalent. The obvious...
In a recent blog article Volvo seeks new suppliers, fresh ideas for greener cars in Automotive News by Douglas Bouldac, Volvo has announced that it is targeting 25% of the plastics used in its vehicles to be made from recycled materials. Many other automotive...
Nylon 66 is a crystalline engineering thermoplastic made up of hexamethylenediamine and adipic acid that undergo a condensation reaction to form the polymer and is noted for the following performance characteristics: Chemical ResistanceAbrasion ReistanceFriction...
Most large OEM’s have their own internal engineering teams to help evaluate and approve materials that will be used in the construction of their product. Plastics is no exception with OEM’s maintaining an approved material source list assigned to defined...
