Exploring the: NPE2012 Zone
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- Extrusion & Compounding at NPE: Advances Push Efficiency Envelope
- Blown film towers may have been scarce, but there was no shortage of new technology aimed at helping to make extrusion processors more profitable.
Article Published: 5/30/2012
- Thermoforming at NPE: Machines Raise Performance Bar
- Exhibitors at this year’s show introduced an assortment of new machines and upgraded models with designs incorporating the latest in mechanical, hydraulic, and electronic technologies.
Article Published: 5/29/2012
- 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.
Article Published: 5/29/2012
- Foaming Developments Aplenty in Extrusion
- At NPE2012, Macro Engineering and Technology, Mississauga, Ont., launched new technology to extrude foamed films in what it describes as an “environmentally friendly process” that uses inert gas as the foaming agent.
Article Published: 4/29/2012
- ‘RollTrusion’ Mates Rolled Metal & Extrusion
- Crosshead extrusion is the typical means of coating plastics on relatively small substrates such as wire.
Article Published: 4/29/2012
- Now You Can Refurbish Twin-Screw Elements
- Two suppliers of twin-screw compounding extruders announced at NPE2012 that they are now offering screw-element refurbishing services.
Article Published: 4/29/2012
- New Way to Characterize Moldability Of Resins & Part/Tool Designs
- Experienced injection molders have long known that a resin’s melt flow index (MFI), measured under very low-shear conditions, provides very little information about how it will process under many orders of magnitude higher shear in an actual m...
Article Published: 4/29/2012
- MATERIALS AT NPE: All Market Sectors Benefit from Large Crop of New Materials
- Higher-performance and easier processing PE film resins for packaging, a one-pass crosslinked PE for photovoltaic (PV) wire and cable, several higher-performing nylons and TPEs, “greener” plastics, and enhanced styrenic and PC resins are...
Article Published: 4/28/2012
- New PET Stretch-Blow Machines & Applications Debut at NPE
- Italian stretch-blow molding machinery builder Siapi (siapi.it) had a lot to talk about at NPE2012 last month in Orlando, Fla.
Article Published: 4/28/2012
- All-Electric Blow Molding Is Reaching the Tipping Point
- After years of talk, all-electric blow molding machines seem poised to make advances.
Article Published: 4/26/2012
