August 2002 Issue
August 2002
Features
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Your Business in Brief - August 2002
Future Design Moves OfficeExtrusion equipment maker Future Design Inc. has moved from Brampton, Ont., to larger quarters at 5369 Maingate Dr., Mississauga, ON L4W 1G6.
Read MoreFirst Plastics Molders Sign Up For Ford's 'Supplier Park'
A 155-acre lot in the Chicago area, vacant for 40 years, will be converted into the site of the first automotive "supplier park" in the U.S.
Read MoreTwo New Ideas for Injection Molding Unveiled at ANTEC Meeting
A new method of coinjection molding dissimilar materials was presented at this year's SPE Annual Technical Conference in San Francisco.
Read MoreCut the 'Chatter' in Window Profile Extrusion
A new class of heat stabilizer and an unusual lubricant are said to allow high-speed extrusion of rigid PVC window profiles without such common problems as "chatter" lines, die plateout, and frictional heat build-up in the calibrator.
Read MoreLong-Glass Leader-How Faurecia Helped Put TP Composites In the Driver's Seat
Europe's third largest automotive molder, Faurecia, uses five different long-glass thermoplastic molding processes, more than any other molder in the world. It invented half of them, including the world's first in-line compounding- and-injection process.
Read MoreChips in a Bottle?
They first caught my eye a few weeks ago, when I pulled off a highway at a convenience store in southern Virginia.
Read MoreFull-Body Labels Brighten Face of Blow Molding
Heinz, Nestle, Dannon, Tropicana, and other packagers have discovered an eye-catching way to launch new food products: They design a shapely blow molded bottle, then totally envelop it with a brightly colored shrink or stretch label. This marketing concept could launch tens of billions of plastic bottles in the next few years.
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