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Featured Product: Vulkollan
The material Vulkollan® (Plei-Tech® 15), the first polyurethane developed in Germany after World War II, offers outstanding mechanical properties which make it suitable for a large range of applications:

  • Excellent resistance to mechanical wear
  • High rebound resilience, even in hard grades
  • Good tear propagation resistance
  • Low compression set
  • Good resistance to mineral oils, greases, petrol and a wide range of solvents
  • Best dynamic performance of all urethanes

Pleiger Plastics is one of only a few molders of Vulkollan in the United States. Pleiger offers Vulkollan wheels, rollers, stock shapes, screen printing squeegees and custom molded parts. Click for more information...
When creating plastic products, there are a plethora of factors that can sway the product development process. For some, choices are solely based on the way a product will look. For others, it’s linked to the product’s specific performance features. However, in recent years, many decisions are being shaped by a product’s material composition and ultimate impact on the environment. This is especially true for plastic products. That’s why top brands and manufacturers are determined to make significant progress in creating products that help address plastic waste, alongside campaigns that encourage reuse.

Here are 3 important considerations for creating plastic products in 2022...
What comes around goes around: Your discarded plastic water bottle may soon become part of your next car.
Automakers are racing to make their vehicles more sustainable -- the industry's favorite buzzword -- by turning environmentally unfriendly materials into seat cushions, floors, door panels and dashboard trims. First it was reclaimed wood. Then "vegan" leather. Now, plastic waste from the ocean, rice hulls, flaxseeds and agave are transforming the manufacturing process.
Long considered a harbinger of bad luck, Friday the 13th has inspired a late 19th-century secret society, an early 20th-century novel, a horror film franchise and not one but two unwieldy terms—paraskavedekatriaphobia and friggatriskaidekaphobia—that describe fear of this supposedly unlucky day.

The Fear of 13
Just like walking under a ladder, crossing paths with a black cat or breaking a mirror, many people hold fast to the belief that...
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