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Learn About Operating PET Bottle Machines
Practical, hands-on training for machine operators and technicians about running stretch-blow machines.
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Ban ‘Single-Use’ Plastics? What If They’re Not ‘Single’ Use?
Today’s high-quality bowls and trays for deli foods and restaurant carry-out should not be branded with the despised “single-use” label.
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How to Make Your Pneumatics ‘Smart’
Emerson’s Avantics Smart Pneumatics Analyzer digitizes the analog pneumatic environment and monitors and analyzes key operating data.
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A Walk Around Incoe’s New Hot-Runner Plant
A private tour—the grand opening of Incoe’s new headquarters plant.
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Water Injection Beats Gas Assist in Lightweighting Car Door Panel
Renault’s conversion from metal-frame construction to plastics prototype switched from gas assist to water injection. Here’s why and how.
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Placing a Bet on Bioplastics
Steinwall has put years of R&D into learning to design and mold with biopolymers and natural-fiber reinforcements. Now that groundwork is beginning to pay off.
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LSR Molders Now Can Tailor Cure Speed, Temperature & Durometer
Elkem’s LSR Select is enabling faster cures at lower temperatures and custom durometer blends. Dosing equipment has caught up with capabilities of this novel material system.
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Robot & Cobot Makers Are Pairing Up
Sepro adds its Visual controls to UR collaborative robots.
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Super-Compact Auxiliary Injection And Intrusion Units
Unusually compact secondary injectors outfit standard presses for multicomponent and sandwich molding.
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Injection Overmolding Widens Horizons For Composites Processor
A specialist in thermoset composites since the 1960s, CCP Gransden is a relative newcomer to thermoplastic composites and to injection molding. Its exploration of organosheet overmolding has opened up new potential.
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See It Live: The Ultimate Crossover of Injection Molding & 3D Printing
AddiFab, Mitsubishi Chemical and Alba Enterprises to demonstrate Freeform Injection Molding at Rapid + TCT show in May.
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See the Mold Filling on Your Press Control Panel
Arburg embeds flow simulation in its Gestica controller.
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