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When It Comes to Maintenance Trust Your Nose (and Ears and Eyes)
An ever-growing number of sensors on injection molding machines provide real-time transparency into a press’s inner workings, but the low-tech sensors humans come with are still vital to keeping a plant running.
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Minimum Energy. Maximum Savings. Dry Better with ULTRA
In this Digital Demo, Maguire reviews its energy-efficient ULTRA dryer for use in the plastics industry.
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3D Printing Market Forecast to Reach $51 Billion in 2030
Lux Research states in a new report that the value of 3D-printed parts will rise at a 15% CAGR over the next decade, lead by end-use parts.
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Total Transparency at Trademark Plastics
Trademark Plastics’ latest investment won’t let it see the future, but by giving it vision inside parts, the new CT scanner represents a more transparent tomorrow for its validation work.
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What You Need to Know About Blade Ejectors: Part 1
Follow these guidelines to prevent premature wear, flash and galling.
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The Difference Between Knit and Meld Lines--and Why It Matters
In many part designs, flow fronts will inevitably be split, but how and where they come back together is hugely important to the molded part’s finished strength.
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Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Cellophane
How—and when—cellulose-based chemistry led to the discovery of cellophane.
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Solve Five Common Problems in Blown Film Coextrusion
The blown film industry has evolved from monolayer film structures to multilayer ones for a variety of food and non-food packaging applications. Here are typical problems with these structures and tips on how to solve them.
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Index Reaches All-Time High … Again
Index hits record mark for second straight month, with quickening expansion in new orders, backlogs and production.
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Your Factory May Be Smarter, But Is It Less Secure?
A smart factory is a connected one but the same advances that allow you to check in on production remotely could allow others to tie into your plant.
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Gain More Control From Your Process
PSI Polymer discusses polymer gear pumps and why they’ve become necessary in extrusion.
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Chinaplas 2021 Kicks Off In Person
Postponed, rescheduled and ultimately cancelled in 2020, Chinaplas has returned this week with an in-person event featuring 3600 exhibitors in Shenzhen.
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