Plastics Companies (Yousuf)
Alex Hasbany has left us for this company.
What is Bixby International?
This type of molding machine melts plastic pellets and injects the molten material into a mold cavity to form a part.
What is an injection molding machine?
The longest standing Student Chapter of the Society of Plastics Engineers.
This is the tallest building across UML's campuses (not the Burj Khalifa).
What is Fox Hall ?
These plastics are made partly or entirely from renewable biological resources.
What are biobased plastics?
This Austrian machinery manufacturer is well-known for its neon green injection molding machines. (2 of their machines are located in BAL-116)
What is ENGEL?
This unit of an injection molding machine holds the two mold halves together under pressure during injection.
What is the clamping unit?
The organization that SPE merged with at the start of 2026.
What is the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS/PIA)?
The building formerly known as University Crossing.
What is the Marty Meehan Student Center?
This bioplastic, abbreviated PLA, is commonly made using sugars from corn or sugarcane.
What is polylactic acid?
Wallace Carothers, the first polymer scientist to synthesize nylon, performed such work at this renowned multinational chemical company.
What is DuPont?
This rotating component inside the barrel melts, mixes, and transports plastic before moving forward to inject it into the mold.
What is the reciprocating screw?
The most known organization with the acronym SPE.
What is the Society of Petroleum Engineers?
This building contains UML's nuclear reactor.
What is Pinanski Hall?
This term describes materials that microorganisms can break down under suitable conditions.
What is biodegradable?
LEXAN, a PolyCarbonate, and Noryl, a PPO/HIPS blend are both products of this Saudi Arabian petrochemical giant.
What is SABIC? (Aramco)
Located at the tip of the reciprocating screw, this component prevents molten plastic from flowing backward during injection.
What is the check ring (non-return valve)?
The name for SPE's yearly convention.
What is SPE ANTEC (ANnual TEchnical Conference)?
North campus lecture hall that was demolished to make room for a new construction. This lecture hall was also the largest on Umass Lowell campus before its DESTRUCTION.
What is Olney 150?
This type of composting uses controlled industrial conditions to break down certified compostable plastics.
What is industrial composting?
This company, formerly Bayer MaterialScience, is famous for their PolyCarbonate (Makrolon) and their PC/ABS (Bayblend).
What is Covestro?
This critical point in the injection molding cycle marks the transition from velocity-controlled filling to pressure-controlled packing.
What is V/P switchover (transfer)?
The number of continents that SPE acts in.
What is 6 (all but Antarctica)?
Now known as Shah Hall, this was its former name.
What is Kitson Hall?
These biologically produced polyesters, abbreviated PHA, can biodegrade in certain environments.
What are polyhydroxyalkanoates?