Winner!
Plastic is one of the most precious materials on earth.
Today was a good day! Officially graduated and went home with 2 awards for my projects!
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The tests I made with my extrusion machine. Most of them are made by turning the extruded plastic around the moulds.
Diving into rotational moulding
When I graduated last week they also handed me out the connector award!
Thinking of a solution..
I wanted to see if I could give plastic another texture/ feeling...
While making the extrusion I had the idea of making a press more manual and small.
Plastic shredding basically means chopping the plastic things into smaller pieces, so they can use it again.
Here they design and build plastic machinery..the machines that make plastic products.
This company is working 24/7 and makes around 700 million products each year, that’s about 2 million products every single day!
There are quite some steps involved before plastic can be re-used, this is one of the first.
Yesterday I went to a blow-molding company. They make all kind of containers like shampoo bottles and jerry cans.
I’ve made this little plastic extrusion machine from brass a drill and the heating of an old toaster...
Plastic injection-moulding is by far the most used technique to transform plastic into a product.
Creativity of children’s drawings.
Little pieces of paper and post-it’s laying around?
An oil pressing machine which works only on wind energy.
