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Try Overflow Wells to Remedy Weld Line Weakness
Molding simulations show that adding an overflow well to a part can mitigate the impact of glass fibers on weld-line weakness.
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Electrification Sparks Changes in Automotive Design
Cars are marketed to consumers as everything from a form of personal expression to a reflection of the American experience, but ultimately they’re about moving people, and moving the car comes down to the motor.
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Injection Molding Live Demos to Highlight First-Ever PTXPO
Major suppliers will be running injection machines in the first plastics industry trade show in the Chicago area since 2009.
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Manufacturing Activity Returns to Pre-Pandemic Levels but Challenges Remain
Manufacturing is back to levels last seen in 2019, but rising raw material costs, supply chain challenges, workforce issues and transportation/logistics costs pose ongoing hurdles.
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The Changing Nature of Injection Molding
As the industry enters a new year, it stands at the crossroads of global events that will change many aspects of injection molding in indelible ways—many of which are positive.
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How a Molder Embraces Change While Sticking to Its Roots
For MDS Manufacturing, its first decade in business has been one of nearly constant change. But the two brothers who started it have never strayed from the company’s roots and the lessons about the molding business they learned from their father.
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A Look Back at 2021 Through Molders’ Eyes
Every month, Plastics Technology gives readers a “tour” of a plastics processor via its On Site articles—here’s a look back at injection molders PT highlighted in 2021.
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Top Shops Adapt, Evolve and Overcome
Like a stress test on steroids, the pandemic took full measure of Plastics Technology’s Top Shops as it exacerbated or revealed preexisting conditions around labor, the supply chain and more.
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Global Robotics Market Eyes Return to Growth
Much as the coronavirus crested in waves across the globe last year, the global robotics market ebbed and flowed in different places at different times.
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Nozzle Shutoff Shuts Down Drool
A machine-nozzle shutoff device helped Klein Tools cut drool from 24 lb/day to just 2.1 lb, with the remaining drool coming from the hot runner, not the machine.
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The Accidental Molder
Peyton Owen came to plastics after decades in commercial real estate, but by empowering his employees through listening, he’s learning molding and success at D&M Plastics.
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Matrix Tool Sweeps 'Hot Shots' Competition
Working together with injection machine builder Sodick Plustech, this Pennsylvania molder and moldmaker won both prizes in Plastics Technology’s first-ever Hot Shots injection molded parts competition, held at Molding 2021.
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