September 2010 Issue
September 2010
Features
Featured articles from the latest issue of Plastics Technology
K 2010- Injection Molding New All-Electrics & Hybrids Balance Performance & Economy
The world’s largest plastics show, coming up next month in Dusseldorf, Germany, provides ample evidence of the growing sway of electric drive technology in injection molding.
Read MoreDo High-Temperature Resins Require a Specialty Screw?
Learn how applying a “reverse” temperature profile, where the barrel temperatures are higher in the rear and lower at the discharge end, can help keep high-temp resins moving in the barrel.
Read MoreInjection Molding: Time Now for a Safety Review
For months many of us have been consumed with the Gulf oil pipeline blowout.
Read MoreK 2010 Preview, Blow Molding New Machines Promise More Output with Less ‘Juice’
Higher throughputs and greater energy efficiency will be two big themes in blow molding at next month’s K 2010 show.
Read More20 Years Of Growth, But Color Still Comes First
If they were having delivery, quality and consistency issues with the color compound they had purchased, most processors would probably try sourcing material from another compounder.
Read MoreK 2010 Preview, Thermoforming Productivity Enhancements Reign
At K 2010, thermoformers will be greeted by numerous advances in inline machines for packaging.
Read MoreOn-Site: An ‘Empire’ Built on Scientific Molding
A U.S. custom injection molder that’s hiring?
Read MoreIndustry & Technology News
Metalized PET Bottles Offer a New LookFor over a year, a small number of processors have been offering a new look in PET bottles—with a shiny, vacuum metalized coating that lets color show through.
Read MoreBoosting Extrusion Productivity-Part II of III: Optimize Product Changeover & Purging
Extrusion processors typically run a number of different products and resins.
Read MoreK 2010 Preview, Extrusion More…Layers, Output & Quality
In most segments of extrusion technology, the word at K 2010 is more.
Read MoreK 2010 Preview, Compounding ‘Slower’ Compounders Suggest Trend Toward Energy-Efficient Designs
channel depth in larger machines, which exposes the material to less mechanical stress at comparable residence times.
Read MoreTooling: Setting Up a Mold Shop: Part I
I had a toolmaker once tell me he used to slam his hand in his car door before work every morning just to get him in the right frame of mind to work in his shop.
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