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Custom Molder Manages Growth on Several Fronts
Adding people, plants and machines, expanding capabilities in LSR, high-tonnage presses, automation and 3D printing—EVCO Plastics maintains momentum through challenging times.
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Low-Cost Cobots with Online Integration Support
Lightweight six-axis cobot has 2-kg payload capacity and 664-mm reach.
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‘World First’ 3D Printing Material for Wear Parts
Liquid DLP resin makes high-precision parts with wear life 30 to 60 times longer than conventional 3D printed parts.
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Blow Molders: Magic Adds Downstream Equipment Division
Magic of Italy now offers complete blow molding lines from bottle blowing to palletized cartons ready for shipping.
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Arburg Donates 600,000 Euros to Aid Ukraine
Two medical and children’s aid organizations receive 200,000 euros each in response to the war in Ukraine.
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AI Machine Monitoring Arrives from Google Cloud
A new “end-to-end packaged solution” connects shop-floor machine monitoring to the cloud, with AI analytics to turn data into actionable knowledge.
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Not Thrilled by All the ‘4.0’ Talk?
Are you (perhaps secretly) put off by expressions like Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, Big Data, Smart Factories, Digitalization and so forth? If so, you’re not alone. You might be friendlier to terms like operational Transparency and Visibility.
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My Top Three Prizes for Most Irritating Plastic Packaging
More than most consumers, I feel really let down when plastic packaging isn’t user-friendly. Unlike most frustrated consumers, I can diagnose pretty well what went wrong in manufacturing or design of the failed product.
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Univ. of Akron Offers Its First Undergraduate Degree in Plastics
New B.S. in Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering is a first for UA and for Ohio public universities.
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Dual-Head Leak Tester Is Fast & Compact
Test small bottles at up 250 bpm within only 36 in. of conveyor space.
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‘Learn to Embrace Variability’
Wait. What? Variability in raw materials is supposed to be the last thing anyone would want to ‘embrace.’ But if you substitute ‘circular economy’ for ‘variability’ and ‘manage with technology’ for ‘embrace’—then the mystery starts to clear.
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Amcor Offers Seed Funding for Innovative Startups
Global packaging producer Amcor is taking on a new role as a venture capitalist to support sustainable technologies and other innovations.
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