Barrier Blow Molding

sustainability 1 Mar 2006

Smart Handling of Regrind Can Improve Your Bottom Line

Dealing effectively with regrind has been a tough challenge for most blow molders ever since the process was invented.

Stretch Blow Molding 1 Mar 2006

Blade System Puts Ribs Into Structural Blow Molded Parts

A novel blow molding process incorporates movable blades within the tool to create a ribbed structure for load-bearing automotive parts.

Barrier Blow Molding 2 Feb 2006

New Association for IML, IMD

Last month saw the official start-up of the In-Mold Decorating Association (IMDA), an association of molders, printers, materials suppliers, and equipment manufacturers involved in in-mold labeling and decorating (IML and IMD) for any plastics process.

Micromolding 1 Dec 2005

Headlines for the Next 50 Years

Ever wonder what it would be like to get tomorrow’s newspaper today? After reviewing the most important technical developments of the past 50 years in our October issue, we asked industry experts to help us imagine the biggest headlines in plastics from now to 2055. What we got was a mixture of predictions of what will happen and a wish list of what should happen.

Stretch Blow Molding 1 Oct 2005

50 Ideas That Changed Plastics

Very few readers of this issue can remember, or even imagine, what it was like when an injection molding machine did not have a screw, but only a smooth-bore plunger.

Stretch Blow Molding 1 Aug 2005

Barrier Bottle Technologies Square Off

With single-serve containers raising shelf-life demands, packagers are seeking the barrier with the best cost-performance for PET bottles. Multilayer seems to have the upper hand, but monolayer, coating, and oxygen-scavenger technologies have all won niches.

Stretch Blow Molding 1 Apr 2005

Exotic Bottle Shapes Push the Limit

It takes some nerve and a lot of know-how to be on the cutting edge of blow molding today.

Stretch Blow Molding 1 Jan 2005

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.