January 2000 Issue
January 2000
Features
Featured articles from the latest issue of Plastics Technology
Processors' Wish List: What's Your Million-Dollar Dream?
How would you spend a windfall of $10,000, $100,000, or $1 million added to your operating budget? Here’s what owners and managers of plastics plants said they would do with this dream cash.
Read MoreFutures 2010: Where will plastics be in the year 2010?
That’s not so far off, given the speed of change in this industry. Here’s what a handful of plastics experts see in their (acrylic) crystal balls.
Read MoreWood-Fiber Adds Stiffness and Value To Tight-Tolerance Tubes
Hollow tubing with a high loading of wood fiber is one of the newest products—and one of the trickiest—in the booming business of wood-filled thermoplastic extrusion.
Read MoreWood Tubes Close-Up
Hollow tubing with a high loading of wood fiber is one of the newest products—and one of the trickiest—in the booming business of wood-filled thermoplastic extrusion.
Read MoreInjection Molding Close-Up
The latest development in the D-I-M technology is a vertical press with vertical injector, measuring around 5 x 2.7 x 8.8 ft high (with mold open). It allows plenty of room for automation, so it can be integrated into assembly lines, Ettlinger says.
Read MoreYour Business In Brief - January 2000
Yushin Opens Midwest Robot Technical CenterInjection molding robot supplier Yushin America, Inc., Cranston, R.I., has opened a technical center in Indianapolis.
Read MoreProspects Brighten for PET Beer Bottles
Three hundred billion beer bottles a year worldwide is a mighty tempting target for the plastics industry. So it’s no surprise that 13 of 24 papers focused on beer packaging at the recent Nova-Pack Europe ’99 Conference, held in Germany by Schotland Business Research, Skillman, N.J.
Read MoreLooking Back to 2000
As we enter the year 2100, this magazine will be 145 years old next month. I’ve been reviewing century-old issues to rediscover the trends and issues that were “hot” back in the days when metallocenes were the new thing in polymer synthesis and hydraulics still powered molding machines.
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