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High-Output Drum Machine Boasts Fast Cooling, Color Change

NPE2024: Graham Engineering’s new 40-lb accumulator press has adjustable-height extruder platform.

Graham Buys Tool Maker Kennedy

Graham says the acquisition will help it support customers throughout the life of their extrusion equipment.

New Name, Products, Technology— But Same Service Philosophy

Schoeneck Containers is now Radius Packaging, but customer needs are still the focal center of this blow molder’s business. Those customers will benefit from the company’s push toward automation, sustainability, and new products in injection molding and stretch-blown PET.

Graham Names Alpert Medical Extrusion Manager

Veteran tubing guru Alpert to be part of machine builder's technical and customer support, including product development and system testing.

Graham Accelerates Extruder Deliveries as Tubing Processors Ramp Up

Machine builder expediting shipment of Ultra line of extruders as tube makers ramp up production for ventilators resulting from Coronavirus.

K 2019 Preview: Blow Molding Exhibits Focus on Recycling & PET

Spotty information from blow molding machinery exhibitors indicates that the “Circular Economy” will be a recurrent theme and that PET processing will predominate.

Under One Roof: Innovative Recycler Closes the Loop

rPlanet Earth looks to disrupt the plastics recycling industry by creating a truly sustainable, closed-loop system for recycling and reuse of post-consumer plastics, with reclaim, sheet extrusion, thermoforming and preform making all in the same plant.

rPlanet Earth Opens Vertically Integrated Recycling Plant In California

Among a range of reclaim and polymer processing systems in place at the Vernon plant are three Welex sheet lines supplied by Graham Engineering Corp. and equipped with EDI extrusion dies and BKG melt delivery components from Nordson Corp.

Sheet Processor Adds Thin-Gauge Capability

Custom sheet house Pro Ex says ability to run down to 10 mil separates it from competitors. Line can also run PP and PET.

NPE2018 New Technology Focus: Pipe, Profile, Tubing

Check out what’s new in pipe, profile and tubing extrusion.

NPE2018 New Technology Focus: Single-Screw Extruders

What's new at the plastics industry's big trade show in single-screw extruders.

Donald Graham: Business Leader and Innovator in Blow Molding

With a keen vision of business and the creative mind of an inventor with important contributions to the blow molding industry, Donald Graham entered into the Plastics Hall of Fame last Sunday.

Plastics Hall of Fame: 10 Inspiring Stories

Last evening, at the Linda W. Chapin Theatre, the Plastics Academy inducted 10 new members into the Plastics Hall of Fame. Meet these outstanding individuals with remarkable stories. Each one teaches a lesson of hard work and creative thinking.

NPE2018 Technology Focus: Sheet Extrusion

Space-saving, high-speed line for PP and PS packaging, new options in 'no-dry' PET among the highlights in Orlando.

Extrusion/Compounding at NPE2018: More…More…More!

More speed, flexibility and robustness. Across a gamut of extrusion applications, machine builders are introducing new machinery, components, and systems to dramatically raise the bar on productivity.

‘Mini’ Accumulator-Head Machine Comes to NPE

Small industrial blow molder with rapid color and material change.

New Control Platform, Plus Lines for Sheet, Tubing

Navigator control system now extends to all of the company's brands, including Graham Engineering, Welex, and American Kuhne.

Making an Impact In Thin-Gauge Sheet

Creating a ‘virtually integrated supply chain’ that connects it with suppliers and customers has helped Impact Plastics add value to a wide range of sheet products, with a growing emphasis on PP.

Processing/Workplace Safety Tips for Fluoropolymer Medical Tubing

Here's what you need to know and running these emerging materials for medical tubing.

Graham, Blue Star Silicones Combine on Medical, Pharma Tubing

Collaboration intended to advance the development and testing of medical- and pharmaceutical-grade silicone tubing.

Blow Molding Challenges Embraced at Metro Mold

“Others mold difficult parts. We mold the impossible.”

Top DuPont Award Goes to Hot-Fill Blow Molded PET Container

Graham Packaging’s technology manipulates PET’s morphology to create a container with properties that surpass standard PET.

Graham, Conair Team Up To Boost Medical Tubing Technology

Suppliers to house each other's equipment in their respective extrusion labs.

Graham Engineering Relocates Rhode Island Operations To Pennsylvania

Ashaway plant relocating to York, Penn. to accommodate ongoing growth.

BLOW MOLDING AT NPE: Energy Savings, Lightweighting & Flexibility

New machines are mostly all-electric, hybrid, or servo-hydraulic.

K 2013 Preview: Blow Molding

Of the six machine builders who were willing to pull back the curtain even a little, five of them said they’d be showcasing all-electric presses. That remarkable fact suggests that all-electric technology, which has been a much harder sell in blow molding than in injection molding, is at last starting to find traction.

Blow Molding at NPE: Pushing the Envelope in Speed, Flexibility, Energy Savings

New models of blow molding machines at the show were dominated by wheel machines and stretch-blow systems.

Blow Molding at NPE: Speed, Quality & Flexibility Take Center Stage

Wheel machines in particular will be on display.

NPE 2009 Wrap-Up: New Machinery for Blow Molding

Several new developments include a brand-new compression blow process, the first foamed PET bottles, and a preform decontamination approach for aseptically filled products sold at ambient temperature. Attendees also saw a new stack-mold Multi-Parting Line concept that doubles bottle output within the same machine footprint. (Additional NPE blow molding news appeared in May and June—see Learn More box.)

NPE 2009 Wrap-Up: New Machinery for Extrusion and Compounding

Extrusion machinery at the June NPE show in Chicago showed inventive ways to get more out of your floorspace and materials.

NPE News in Blow Molding

While occupying a relatively small category of exhibits, blow molding will present no lack of innovation at NPE.

NPE 2009 News Flash

Injection MoldingHybrid Press Has Electric ClampNew injection presses that combine servo-electric and hydraulic movements to achieve high performance with energy efficiency will be discussed by Arburg Inc., Newington, Conn.

K 2007 Blow Molding: Electric Machines Take Hold

Development of all-electric and hybrid-electric blow molding machines may be gaining momentum, as evidenced by several new models introduced in Dusseldorf.

What's New at the Show in BLOW MOLDING

There will be a strong emphasis on energy savings in blow molding machinery at K 2007.

Eliminate Problems with Container Handles

Extrusion blow molding a container with a handle may sound easy.

What to See at NPE 2006: Blow Molding

Show-goers will see a range of new blow molding equipment that offers higher speeds, more cavitation, and faster changeovers.

NPE News Preview: Blow Molding--Higher Speeds, More Cavities, Faster Changeovers

Improving productivity while minimizing capital cost and floorspace will be central themes of blow molding exhibits at NPE 2006.

K 2004 Wrap-Up on Blow Molding: Outputs Keep Rising For PET, OPP, HDPE

Among the more unusual blow molding developments at K 2004 was a closed-loop control system that monitors and corrects material distribution in PET containers as they are produced.

K 2004 News Preview: Blow Molding

One of the most interesting innovations in blow molding at K 2004 will be a top-and-bottom blowing system that is said to double bottle output.

Blow Molding (K 2001 Preview)

One cluster of blow molding innovations on display at K 2001 will address the need for more versatile single-stage injection stretch-blow molding (ISBM) machines. A thirst for energy savings underlies plans to launch all-electric units for PET and HDPE containers. Also in the limelight are advances in large-part technical blow molding.