A process based approach to solutions by Adwoa Coleman Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics

Optimisation of the development cycle for new products is a challenge in the chemical industry. Steel, which in many ways is analogous to chemicals, is produced using a long chain of interdependent process steps. Consequently, large volumes of experiments are required to fully explore process parameter relations. This is more critical for new, highly differentiated products for which understanding of the underlying physical principles is incomplete and thus a-priori exclusion of factors not possible. In this context, the use of statistical Design of Experiments (DOE) to shorten development timescale, maximize the output of experimental capacity and minimize material consumption is essential.

Viscoelasticity is a term used to describe materials that exhibit both viscous flow and elastic spring back when a force is applied to them.

This two-part webinar took place on 22 March and provided a regulatory and legal overview of the recently amended K-REACH and the newly adopted K-BPR. Each session demonstrated to what extent these two regulations will affect your industry and what you need to do to comply.

This webinar is designed to help the polymer scientist characterize polymeric materials using a variety of Thermal Analytical (TA) techniques like Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Thermal Mechanical Analysis (TMA) Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA, and Dynamic Mechanical Analysis (DMA).