Exploring the: Testing & Quality Control Zone
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- Recyclers Now Targeting Higher-Value Engineered Resins
- Recycling news from the Society of Plastics Engineers’ Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC) in Orlando, Fla., in March focused on PET, nylon, and waste plastics in electronics—in other words, mainly on higher value engineered ...
Article Published: 5/1/2007
- Taste and Odor: Understand the Role of Colorants and Additives In Food and Beverage Packaging
- Do you know how masterbatch ingredients, processing, storage, and handling can affect taste and odor in packaged products? Here’s an introduction to the numerous factors in organoleptic properties and how they are measured.
Article Published: 3/1/2007
- Non-Contact IR Analysis Simplifies On-Line Quality Control
- A new method of mid-infrared analysis allows on-line monitoring of both the composition and physical properties of a plastic while it is being compounded or extruded.
Article Published: 3/1/2007
- Ultrasonic Imaging Finds Voids, Cracks and Bonding Defects
- As material costs climb, acoustic micro-imaging (AMI) is increasingly being used for non-destructive inspection and quality control of microelectronic components and assemblies, adhesive and welded bonds, solid part walls, and other applications whe...
Article Published: 2/1/2007
- NPE 2006 News Wrap-Up: Testing and QC--New Lab Instruments Stress Affordability and Convenience
- Thermal and mechanical testers, color and appearance sensors, vision inspection devices and CMMs—the NPE had them all in more compact, economical, and easy-to-use models.
Article Published: 11/1/2006
- A Custom Molder Takes the Next Step
- The question John Winzeler keeps asking is, “How do you take the next step?” In the last two decades, he has transformed the Chicago metal-stamping company he inherited from his father into a high-tech specialty molding business focused ...
Article Published: 8/1/2006
- Laser Scanning Saves Time and Money for Digitizing Parts and Molds
- Blow molded product designers and moldmakers are finding laser scanning to be a fast, accurate, and cost-effective method to replicate molds and create new designs for highly contoured and complex parts such as beverage bottles.
Article Published: 8/1/2006
- 3D Part Inspection Is a Snapshot Away
- A non-contact inspection system uses digital photography for accurate three-dimensional measurement of plastic parts.
Article Published: 7/1/2006
- What to See at NPE 2006:Testing and QC
- There’s never been a better time to outfit your lab or QC inspectors with testing and measuring instruments.
Article Published: 6/1/2006
- NPE 2006 News Flash
- Injection MoldingSimplified Hot Runners Save Time & CostA new lower-cost hot-runner alternative to valve gating is suited to less critical cosmetic applications where users need predictable and reliable gate opening but not sequential gate opera...
Article Published: 5/1/2006
