November 2001 Issue
November 2001
Features
Featured articles from the latest issue of Plastics Technology
Mold Micro Parts Just One Pellet at a Time
Here is a closer look at the unusual micro-injection molding press that was reported briefly in our October issue.
Read MoreExternal Gas Molding Squeezes Out Sinks
External gas injection is finally getting molders’ attention as a means to improve part surface quality. Two different approaches are available for licensing. Here’s a look at the processes, the potential benefits, and the commercial players.
Read MoreMulch Film Goes High-Tech
Mulch films come in a dazzling array of colors and multi-layered structures designed to manipulate light, temperature, and moisture and repel insects. But high-tech films are expensive and have found only niche markets so far. Processors now think coextrusion, downgauging, and better field testing can put this market on a fast-growth track.
Read MoreNew Ethylene Acrylate Copolymers Try Out for Impact-Modifier Roles
Cost-effective toughening of both commodity and engineering thermoplastics is one of the roles envisioned for a line of specialty ethylene copolymers newly available from DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers, Wilmington, Del.
Read MoreFear of Buying
President Bush has urged American consumers to go on about their lives, spend money, keep the economy going. That advice can’t come too soon for plastics processors anxious to get idle machines working.
Read MoreRIM Molder 'Bets the Farm' On Agricultural Vehicles
Back in the mid-1980s, GI Plastek, a custom RIM molder in Newburyport, Mass., was making medical and electronic cabinets, but that market was shrinking rapidly.
Read MoreYour Business in Brief - November 2001
Mannesmann Machinery Sale CollapsesThe deal to sell Mannesmann Plastics Machinery AG (MPM) of Munich, Germany, fell apart last month.
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