“Crimean Titan” Firtash has continued to receive raw materials from Ukraine

Irshansky Mining and Processing Plant (GOK) (Zhytomyr region) continues to supply ilmenite ore to the company “Crimean Titan” in the north of the occupied Crimea. This was reported by the online edition of BSNews citing an anonymous source in the peninsula. According to the source, ilmenite arrives in Crimea Irshansk GOK by train through Kharkov […]

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Methods of coloring plastics.

For colored polymeric materials, there are two possibilities of introducing colorant: by coloring in the mass of polymer material or the addition of a concentrate which includes the polymer, the colorant and special additives. Both methods have advantages and disadvantages. Staining bulk polymer preferably used for polymeric materials, some of which characteristics (mechanical strength in […]

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HDPE production in Russia: Results 2015

Russian producers in 2015 increased the amount of polyethylene (HDPE) by 11% compared with the 2014. However, there have been major structural changes in the product mix, which will have consequences, and in 2016, according to the Annual Review “Polyethylene in Russia – 2016”. Last year, Russian producers managed to increase production volumes of high-density […]

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Basic principles of producing fibrous polymeric composites

Determining when creating composites is the interaction and mutual influence of the components in an elementary volume of the fiber-matrix (binder). The higher the necessary properties of the resulting composite construction purposes, the more complex set of requirements should be maintained in the selection of the starting components, without which it is impossible to produce […]

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Extrusion of plastic pipes

Under the impact of the accelerated secondary electrons and gamma radiation is breaking of chemical bonds, the formation of free radicals which recombine to create cross-links between the macromolecules. Production pipe according to this process is divided into two independent steps of: making tubes on conventional pipe lines and subsequent processing of high-energy mainly accelerators […]

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