Jan 19, 2020 | Featured, News & Releases
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 Recycled...
Dec 2, 2019 | Featured, Newsletter, Tech Database
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...
Dec 1, 2019 | Featured, Newsletter, Plastics Profiler
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...
Aug 11, 2019 | Featured, Newsletter, Plastics Profiler
Polypropylene copolymer is a crystalline thermoplastic that starts with polymer grade propylene with 1-7% ethylene monomer added during bulk polymerization. Comonomer content and molecular weight distribution can be controlled in the reactor allowing for a wide range...
Aug 11, 2019 | Featured, Newsletter, Tech Database
Working with up to 100% regrind represents its own set of processing challenges. Based on experience and continuous improvement AGS mitigates regrind related processing issues with specially modified injection molding machines: Material conveying...
Aug 11, 2019 | Featured, News & Releases, Newsletter, Random Clues
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...
