Guest guest Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 I worked in a plastic producing plant for about 4 years in the late '70's early '80's. I was a blender operator and my job was to mix certain substances and send them down a hopper. It eventually went to a machine below my platform, was heated and then came out through the extruder, looking like about 12 rows of spaghetti side by side. It was then cooled off by running through a water bath and then cut into little plastic pellets. We had been a major supplier to toy companies and many other producers of plastic products. The delivering system of the chemicals came from me watching my levels and using my "computerized" boards from inside my all glass room below the blender, however, I had to manually check levels and fix random problems with the blends regularly. One of the chemicals, Acrylonitrile, had to be used for certain suppliers. I believe it was to the car industry but I can't be sure. When I worked on orders containing this ingredient, I had to wear a special suit over my clothes, rubber gloves that went to my shoulders and a respirator for safety. I always had to wear a badge that measured my exposure. Back then, I was told that Acrylonitrile had been known to cause cancer, fetal birth defects and death in very small exposures and it always made me wonder about what type of harm it could cause in the finished product. If it was used in some car interior pieces, what would occur when the interior of the car would reach certain temperatures. I've always worried about it to this day, 28 years later. I don't remember ever having any exposure that was picked up by my "badge", however I hope that it was calibrated correctly and properly handled/tested. I had many conversations with my extruder operator wondering why they would've considered using this substance to begin with and wondered what grand purpose it served over something else. I never did the research on that chemical to understand why it was used in this certain production, but I believe there are probably more out there just like it. I hate plastic anything. plastics.com Interesting......................anyone seen these anywhere? http://www.plasticsusa.com/specgrav2.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Interesting......................I would have yourself checked before the statute of limitations runs out..................... http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/MHMI/mmg125.html--- Subject: Re: plastics.comTo: miralax Date: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 12:50 PM I worked in a plastic producing plant for about 4 years in the late '70's early '80's. I was a blender operator and my job was to mix certain substances and send them down a hopper. It eventually went to a machine below my platform, was heated and then came out through the extruder, looking like about 12 rows of spaghetti side by side. It was then cooled off by running through a water bath and then cut into little plastic pellets. We had been a major supplier to toy companies and many other producers of plastic products. The delivering system of the chemicals came from me watching my levels and using my "computerized" boards from inside my all glass room below the blender, however, I had to manually check levels and fix random problems with the blends regularly. One of the chemicals, Acrylonitrile, had to be used for certain suppliers. I believe it was to the car industry but I can't be sure. When I worked on orders containing this ingredient, I had to wear a special suit over my clothes, rubber gloves that went to my shoulders and a respirator for safety. I always had to wear a badge that measured my exposure. Back then, I was told that Acrylonitrile had been known to cause cancer, fetal birth defects and death in very small exposures and it always made me wonder about what type of harm it could cause in the finished product. If it was used in some car interior pieces, what would occur when the interior of the car would reach certain temperatures. I've always worried about it to this day, 28 years later. I don't remember ever having any exposure that was picked up by my "badge", however I hope that it was calibrated correctly and properly handled/tested. I had many conversations with my extruder operator wondering why they would've considered using this substance to begin with and wondered what grand purpose it served over something else. I never did the research on that chemical to understand why it was used in this certain production, but I believe there are probably more out there just like it. I hate plastic anything. plastics.com Interesting. ......... ......... ...anyone seen these anywhere? http://www.plastics usa.com/specgrav 2.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 1, 2008 Report Share Posted November 1, 2008 Thanks so much for the info... plastics.com Interesting. ......... ......... ...anyone seen these anywhere? http://www.plastics usa.com/specgrav 2.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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