Homepage // News Center // Connected, Safer, and Smarter: PolyOne Collaborates with Halo Smart Labs on Next-Gen Home Safety Devices North Carolina-based Halo Smart Labs’ singular focus is to design products that make the world a safer place. About Halo Smart Labs Halo Smart Labs develops life-safety products for the Smart Home/IoT market.

Once the print starts in production, the ink shears, thus changing the opacity once again and requiring the technician to adjust parameters during the run. This is not to say that using full-white under-base will not yield good color results, just that this print technique will enable the press technician to hit color quicker, resulting in faster set-up and truer color throughout the run. Using this technique in the art and under-base application allows the technician to standardize other aspects of the print.

This includes the launch of OnFlex™ LO thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs), featuring reduced levels of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for vehicle interiors, and the availability of its IQ Design Labs service in Europe. Based on its success in North America, the IQ Design Labs service will now additionally support the creativity of Europe’s manufacturers and help them shrink the time required to introduce new products.” Combining expertise in design, polymer science and manufacturing, IQ Design Labs works with customers in the early stages of product development to inspire creative designs that can be efficiently manufactured and successfully launched.

Recipes’ are usually developed by experienced blowing technicians and are subsequently locked into the blowing machine and dialed up on request. Occasionally, technicians from the equipment manufacturers are used to establish the ‘entitlement’ performance of a particular machine and most major manufacturers have technical service teams to help with this activity. Such advice, for example how to set up blow molding machines, is not equipment specific and therefore ColorMatrix would always recommend using local or expert technicians in addition to following best practice points listed below; • Preforms should be conditioned for minimum 24 hours prior to blowing • Preforms should always be used in a FIFO manner (First In, First Out) • Octabins of preforms should be segregated and blown per resin type, i.e. not mixed with other resins • A preform traceability system should be in place such that any process upsets can be quickly followed up and corrected • Enhanced QC preform checking resources for bottle distribution, aesthetics and integrity should be on-hand during the performance optimization trials • Prior to any process optimization, the blowing machine performance should be verified as being within normal i.e. accepted standard ranges and all important components and control features are working satisfactorily.

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CONTAINER OEM S T O C K T A N K • Reduce container weight • Optimize throughput and provide internal training to sustain processing optimization • Minimize scrap • Improve surface appearance • Deployed an experienced field technician who was able to reduce tank weight by 30% through processing adjustments • Provided an additional lightweighting opportunity with an optimized gas / chemical foaming agent (CFA) process • Trained customer on CFA processing and collaborated to create a new CFA offering for further optimization • Made adjustments resulting in lower scrap rates and improved part appearance Dedicated Onsite Field Technical Service KEY REQUIREMENTS WHY AVIENT?

Encompasses skilled technicians, designers and engineers, all educated specifically in long fiber technology and ready to help. 

Connected, Safer, and Smarter: PolyOne Collaborates with Halo Smart Labs on Next-Gen Home Safety Devices CLEVELAND – PolyOne recently worked with Halo Smart Labs in launching Halo and Halo+, devices that go beyond standard smoke alarms by combining home

ANAHEIM, CA – September 23, 2019 – PolyOne (NYSE:POL) is highlighting hands-on, continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) composite demonstrations, a new snowboard binding application, and the addition of a new thermoplastic composites innovation lab at the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo (CAMX) 2019 tradeshow this week.   In addition, PolyOne is announcing the addition of a new thermoplastic composite innovation lab within the Polystrand manufacturing facility in Englewood, Colo. Our new lab will enable collaboration with product designers and engineers looking to improve performance, reduce weight, or consolidate parts with continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic tapes and laminates.

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