October 2010 Issue
October 2010
Features
Featured articles from the latest issue of Plastics Technology
Tooling: Setting Up Shop—Part II of III
Many repair shops in molding facilities are too small, poorly lit, and inefficiently designed.
Read MoreExtrusion: Multi-Pass Tubing Tank Offers Higher Quality, Resin Savings
A new cooling and sizing tank for extruded tubing reportedly allows processors to reduce wall-thickness tolerances and cut material use dramatically while increasing productivity and reducing floorspace requirements.
Read MoreTips and Techniques: How to Get Best Results With Insert Fasteners
The weakest sections of many plastic part designs are the joints and assembly points.
Read MoreTips and Techniques: The Art Science Behind Getting the Color Right
Color is so much more than meets the eye.
Read MoreInjection Molding: Why & How to Do Gate-Seal Experiments
Part of optimizing any molding process is determining the second-stage injection, or pack and hold, parameters.
Read MoreMaterials: Automotive PP Compound Combines Glass & Wheat Fibers
A. Schulman Inc. in Akron, Ohio, commercialized the first wheat-fiber/PP compound last year to replace 20% talc-filled PP in an automotive part
Read MoreExtrusion: Run Your Chevy Volt with Extruder Energy Savings—Part I
The electricity saved on a large extrusion line could power a number of Chevrolet Volts.
Read MoreOn-Site: This Currier Delivers
“We love to tell our story.” That’s one way Mike Cartner, CFO of Currier Plastics, defines what separates this family-owned custom processor from its competitors.
Read MoreK 2010 Preview, Auxiliaries: Equipment of All Types Debuts This Month at K 2010
From materials drying, feeding, and blending to process heating/cooling, scrap reclaiming, testing, welding, and decorating—the K 2010 show this month in Dusseldorf, Germany, will have news in all categories of auxiliary equipment.
Read MorePMC Proves It’s Not Too Late To Pioneer in Medical Molding
Molding medical devices is a high-end business that has proven more resistant to economic swings and to foreign competition than some other plastics markets.
Read MoreTips and Techniques: Mold Filling Analysis Now You Can Adapt Injection Mold Filling Simulation for MuCell
While mold-filling simulation is a very common tool for predicting the fill patterns of an injection mold, in our judgment there is not yet a commercially available, satisfactory filling simulation for microcellular foam molding.
Read MoreK 2010 Preview, Additives A Mix of New Ingredients at K Show
Want your plastic to mold faster, tougher, clearer?
Read MoreDoes More Injection Molding Capacity Require More Pump Capacity?
If the pump system for your central material conveying system already seems to be maxed out, does adding more injection machines mean you have to add a pump? Not necessarily.
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