All Electric & Hybrid Machines

Medical 18 Feb 2014

How ‘sticky’ is your business?

Medical means less cyclicality and higher margins—those are two broadly agreed upon assumptions about the market—but is there another aspect that keeps processors pushing to enter the space?

All Electric & Hybrid Machines 12 Feb 2014

Milacron reestablishes West Coast presence with new tech center

Milacron has a new West Coast home in Irvine, Calif., formally opening its new High Impact Technical (HIT) Center, with more "HITs" planned for the future.

Automotive 10 Jan 2014

Automotive molder seeks flexible solution for diverse drying needs

Clear, amber or red; headlights, taillights and turn signals: those are just some of the constantly changing jobs that custom automotive molder TASUS pulls in and out of its presses, requiring a flexible drying system to handle the ever-changing run list.

All Electric & Hybrid Machines 30 Dec 2013

Processors Find Their Place at K 2013

Sprinkled among the 17 halls, often overshadowed by the billion-dollar machinery and material suppliers surrounding them, were no small number of processors.

k show 30 Dec 2013

EVCO Plastics at 50: Still Thinking Big

In its first half-century, EVCO Plastics has grown from one half-ounce injection machine in a basement to a $130 million company with 148 presses and 900 employees at nine plants in the U.S., Mexico, and China.

Gas & Water Assist 18 Dec 2013

Injection Molding at K 2013: Doing More with Less

More productivity with less energy consumption and capital investment; more operations in the machine or manufacturing cell with less time, labor, energy, and capital—these were the common themes of injection molding exhibits at October’s K 2013 show.

Heating & Cooling 24 Sep 2013

‘ECO-ECONOMICS ’: Harbec Plastics Proves It Pays to Be ‘Green’

Bechtold has spent 15 years in an ongoing quest to prove that manufacturing in a sustainable manner is not opposed to profitability. On the contrary, he says his experience shows that sustainability is an economic opportunity that manufacturers can’t afford to miss.