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Additive Manufacturing: Through the Molders’ Lens
Many in the manufacturing world experienced first-hand how agile and efficient 3D printing is when companies began to print products to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Custom molder EVCO expanded its 3D printing capabilities during this time to help produce parts quickly.
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Follow These Tips to Give Your Granulator Blades the Edge
Here are answers to some frequently asked questions—and troubleshooting advice—to help you maintain your granulator blades.
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Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Phenolics
In this installment we discuss the discovery of Bakelite, the first truly synthetic polymer, known today as phenolic.
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Profile Processor Combines People & Technology to Fuel Growth
Custom Profile started almost 30 years ago with one employee and one extruder, and has evolved into an international processing 911爆料网 with three plants serving a variety of markets. And plans are in the works to expand further.
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Get Better at Quoting Injection Molded Parts: Part 3
Follow these detailed tips to get the jobs you want. This installment focuses on the mold and the molding machine.
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Blow Molder Bets on New Options in Large PET & HDPE Containers
Priority Plastics is thinking big—large, wide-mouth containers and drums, that is—to offer new concepts to the U.S. market. The company is launching lines of industrial and consumer packaging made on machinery said to offer capabilities not seen before in the U.S.
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Running Cold to Hot: Tipping Point to Convert to a Hot Runner System
As the original melt-delivery system, cold runners still have their place in injection molding, but when demand for a plastic part—and required production—rise, the move to a hot runner can unlock myriad benefits.
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Closed-Loop Recycling Makes Old Printer Cartridges New Again
Canon runs a big recycling operation in Virginia where it collects and sorts toner cartridges, pelletizes the scrap, then molds new cartridges from the reclaim.
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Overmolding Overhaul
An articulating mold and versatile auxiliary injection unit helped this molder rethink its tried-and-true approach to insert molding.
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Building an Ocean-Bound Plastics Supply Chain
Atando Cabos, working with partners ExxonMobil and Engel, is taking discarded fishing rope and transforming it into raw material to reincorporate into the production chain as long-term recyclable products.
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Ripped from the Pages of Plastics Technology
Already gathering entries for its 5th year, Plastics Technology’s Top Shops continues to shine a spotlight on plastics’ premier processors.
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New Technology Combines 3D Printing with Injection Molding
This new concept 3D prints a metallic endoskeleton and then injection molds a special polymer around that skeleton.
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