Custom Molder Pivots When States Squelch Thriving Single-Use Bottle Business
Currier Plastics had a major stake in small hotel amenity bottles until state legislators banned them. Here’s how Currier adapted to that challenge.
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Annual Benchmarking Survey of Injection Molders Released
Plastics Technology Top Shops Benchmarking Survey provided both unanimous responses and divided results, but pervasive throughout is the sense of an industry still grappling with the aftermath of 2020’s global pandemic.
Read MoreCOVID-19’s Long Shadow
More than four years on, there are aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic that linger in their impacts to the plastics market and are made visible in our annual survey.
Read MorePrices Flat-to-Down for All Volume Resins
This month’s resin pricing report includes PT’s quarterly check-in on select engineering resins, including nylon 6 and 66.
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Injection Molder Amplifies Automation for Optimized Production
AIM Processing has parlayed small part molding expertise and aggressive automation, even for short run production, into a highly successful custom molding business.
Read MoreSirmax Adapts Integrated Recycling Approach to US Supply Conditions
Integrating compounding and recycling to leverage untapped postindustrial recycling feedstocks.
Read MoreBuilding a Future With Sustainable Compounds
With roots in recycling, Star Plastics produces engineering thermoplastic compounds to meet performance and environmental goals.
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Delivering Increased Benefits to Greenhouse Films
Baystar's Borstar technology is helping customers deliver better, more reliable production methods to greenhouse agriculture.
Read MoreNPE2024 Materials: Spotlight on Sustainability with Performance
Across the show, sustainability ruled in new materials technology, from polyolefins and engineering resins to biobased materials.
Read MoreMasterbatch Creates Cavities, Helping Film Processors Boost Sustainability, Recyclability
Additive technology creates air pockets in film during orientation, cutting down on the amount of resin needed while boosting opacity, mechanical properties and recyclability.
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Why Are There No 'Universal' Screws for All Polymers?
There’s a simple answer: Because all plastics are not the same.
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Three Key Decisions for an Optimal Ejection System
When determining the best ejection option for a tool, molders must consider the ejector’s surface area, location and style.
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Ensuring Repeatability: The Key to Effective Injection Molding Automation
One of automation’s key promises is repeatability: the same movement to the same location, time and time again. But to achieve that, all elements involved — robot, machine, EOAT, mold — must be in and stay in alignment.
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Essential Reading
What to Look for in High-Speed Automation for Pipette Production
Automation is a must-have for molders of pipettes. Make sure your supplier provides assurances of throughput and output, manpower utilization, floor space consumption and payback period.
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How to Optimize Color Evaluation of Recycled Plastics
The right color measurement instrument and good working methods will minimize variability in color evaluation of PCR.
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What to Know About Your Materials When Choosing a Feeder
Feeder performance is crucial to operating extrusion and compounding lines. And consistent, reliable feeding depends in large part on selecting a feeder compatible with the materials and additives you intend to process. Follow these tips to analyze your feeder requirements.
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Running Hot: Solutions for High-Temperature Injection Molding Cells
Here are some best practices for setting up and maintaining high-temperature injection molding processes, including sourcing and maintaining suitable water- and oil-circulating systems.
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Home In on These Six Variables to Monitor Molding
There are hundreds of variables in molding, but focusing on these six will help you make consistent parts.
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Injection Molding: Focus on these Seven Areas to Set a Preventive Maintenance Schedule
Performing fundamental maintenance inspections frequently assures press longevity and process stability. Here’s a checklist to help you stay on top of seven key systems.
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Insight Polymers & Compounding Unveils New Conductive Products Line
The new conductive products line will also be produced for injection molding and extrusion.
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Lower Compressed Air Consumption, Compact Servo-Driven Rotary Axes and Easier Camera Integration
At Fakuma 2024, Wittmann automation displays show high performance and efficiency via less compressed air and energy consumption, compact integration, light-weight construction, easy operation and fast teach-in processes.
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Techmer PM Acquires OptiColor
The acquisition will bolster Techmer PM’s capabilities in the concentrates and compounds market.
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Self-Learning Control Algorithm for Temperature-Controlled Hot Runner Balancing
At Fakuma 2024, Kistler presents the new ComoNeo 7.0 process-monitoring system with the Multiflow 2.0 feature update for consistent temperature control in multicavity molds.
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Coinjection Technology Showcases Recycled Material Containment
At Fakuma, an all-electric PXZ Multinject machine sandwiches a black core made of mechanically recycled PC/ABS within an outer layer made of chemically recycled ABS.
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Braskem Selected to Negotiate Federal Funding Award to Expand UHMWPE
By driving innovation for Braskem’s ‘Utec’ UHMWPE, the project would strengthen the lithium-ion battery value chain in the U.S.
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Servo-Hydraulic Injection Molding Machine With an Electric Injection Unit Premieres
Fakuma 2024: Wittmann Battenfeld says the 2K SmartPower Combimould features a new electric injection unit option.
Read MoreNew Owners for Alpha Marathon
After bankruptcy, new group purchases intellectual property and forms Alpha Marathon Film Extrusion Technologies.
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