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Thermoset plastics firm Mar-Bal Inc. will move its Ohio production from Chagrin Falls to Painesville by the end of the year, providing more space and allowing the company to increase external sales of ...

New thermoset plastic is easily reduced to its source chemicals, recycled An acid bath could make electronics, car parts a bit easier to reuse. John Timmer – May 16, 2014 9:24 am | 21 ...

Chemists have developed a way to modify thermoset plastics with a chemical linker that makes it much easier to recycle them, but still allows them to retain their mechanical strength. Thermosets ...

Hard, durable thermoset plastics appear everywhere from aircraft coatings to hip replacements. But they’re extremely difficult to recycle, and millions of tonnes end up in landfill, or incinerated ...

Thermoset plastics are usually two components mixed together that react and cross-link with each other to form a larger polymer, either by means of heat or at room temperature.