HPLC stands for High Performance Liquid Chromatography. This technique is used for both preparative and analytical separations. In biochemical research, HPLC is especially useful for preparing and analyzing substances with …
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Properties and Applications of Polyethylene
Polyethylene (PE) is one of the plastics that, thanks to its favourable material properties, has found a wide range of applications and become an indispensable mass-market material. Polyethylene – The …
Read more »What are Food Safe Plastics?
Polymers for Safe Contact With Food and Beverages Whether as PET bottles, packaging films, or tubes and hoses in machines for processing meat, fish, poultry and dairy products, in equipment …
Read more »The Maximum Flow Coefficient of 3-Way Valves Explained
Valves are part of our everyday life – in water taps, bicycle valves, or as 3-way mixing valves in heating systems. The latter regulate the flow rates of liquids or …
Read more »USP Class VI approval – What Does it Mean?
Plastics used in medical technology and pharmaceuticals are classified into six biocompatibility classes in the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), the US pharmacopoeia. To assign elastomers and other polymeric materials to …
Read more »Sintering – How It Works and Where It Is Used
Sintering is a manufacturing process that has been known and widely used for a very long time. The production of ceramics – such as firing kaolin or shaping clay into …
Read more »What Does FDA-Compliant Mean?
The Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, is the United States’ federal authority responsible for overseeing the safety of all goods sold within the USA. This oversight includes not just …
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