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PTXPO: Present at the Creation
This week in Chicago, Gardner Business Media, publisher of Plastics Technology, put the wraps on the first ever PTXPO.
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Can Coinjection Help Solve the Coming Recycled Content Conundrum?
As companies push toward self-imposed recycled content requirements or are compelled to do so by governments, Mold-Masters positions its coinjection technology as a solution.
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Micro Mirrors Make for Special Molded Effects
Originally invented for use in currency, a new, patented optical security technology allows anti-counterfeiting design effects to be incorporated directly into injection-molded products and packaging.
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Plastimagen Returns
Almost exactly two years since the first pandemic shutdown and not quite three years removed from the last version of this event, Mexico and Latin America’s plastics industry reunited in person—and in masks—at Plastimagen 2022 in Mexico City.
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Working Towards a Global Plan for Plastics Pollution
Less than a week before the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) convenes in Nairobi with the goal of creating a global treaty on plastics pollution, the OECD attempted to map out the breadth and depth of the issue.
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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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