The world’s largest plastics show, coming up next month in Dusseldorf, Germany, provides ample evidence of the growing sway of electric drive technology in injection molding. ArticlePublished: 12/21/2010
The exhibit of Engel Austria at October’s K 2010 fair in Dusseldorf, Germany, will host a wide range of product introductions, ranging from new machines for caps/closures and micromolding to a new model of small electric press, a new generatio... ArticlePublished: 7/1/2010
Show goers will see an electric injection machine in nearly every press maker’s booth this year, and electric/hydraulic hybrids in several. ArticlePublished: 6/7/2010
In between all-electric and hydraulic-powered injection machines, a new species of hybrid clamp has emerged. Advocates say it combines the best qualities of electric servos and hydraulics without their disadvantages.
ArticlePublished: 6/7/2010
At an open house in Kottingbrunn, Austria, last month, Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH showed what it has been doing to make good on its pledge to reinvigorate the venerable Battenfeld name and its reputation for innovation. ArticlePublished: 6/1/2010
Aerospace composite fabricator Royal Plastic Mfg., Minden, Neb., is expanding into the emerging field of rapid manufacturing with the purchase of the first Eosint P 800 laser sintering machine in North America from EOS of North America Inc., Novi, M... ArticlePublished: 4/23/2010
One of the winners of the recent SPE Automotive Innovation Awards embodies a number of technical advances in manufacturing worthy of 29 U.S. patent applications. ArticlePublished: 3/23/2010
A pretty impressive example of micro injection molding is this “microwell array,”
which has millions of tiny wells measuring 3 microns in diam. and 3 microns deep,
with a pitch of 6.5 microns. ArticlePublished: 3/4/2010
Kortec Inc., Ipswich, Mass. and Silgan Plastics have signed an agreement giving the Chesterfield, Mo., molder exclusive rights to supply Kortec’s multilayer, thin-wall
containers for specific markets throughout North America. ArticlePublished: 3/4/2010