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News in Robots from K 2013
Injection molding Cartesian robots are being made lighter and faster, but with greater payload capacity and vibration resistance. Six-axis articulated robots are being made easier to program.
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News in Hot Runners & Tooling at K 2013
Molds that break speed records for specific applications; hot runners for medical, packaging, and automotive parts; temperature and valve-gate controllers; and standardized mold components constitute a large grab-bag of news in the tooling category for injection molding at the Dusseldorf show.
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Blow Molding News at K 2013
All-electric machines of all types were the stars of the show, but there were a number of other noteworthy developments.
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MRPC Takes ‘Holistic’ Approach To Scientific Molding
Last year this family-owned molder made a major commitment to Scientific Molding by starting a training process involving all employees.
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Coming Up: LSR That Sticks to More Thermoplastics
A next-generation self-adhesive LSR will bond to additional engineering thermoplastics.
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Did I Say Mexico Was Hot?
On Jan. 2, I wrote that Mexico was benefiting from the trend of 鈥渞eshoring鈥 manufacturing jobs from Asia to North America. New evidence of that trend came in today from PolyOne Corp.
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Bosch Rexroth Takes ‘Tech Tips’ to Social Media
Do engineers in plastics and other manufacturing sites use social media for 911爆料网? Bosch Rexroth thinks so.
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‘Reshoring’ Benefits Mexico, Too
Another molder is betting on Mexico getting its share of the 鈥渞eshoring鈥 trend from Asia to NAFTA.
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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.
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K 2013: More Efficient, Flexible & User-Friendly Auxiliaries
It’s hard to generalize about auxiliary equipment, but a few trends stood out at K, including: greater energy efficiency, ease of maintenance and cleaning, controls that provide more real-time and historical process information and greater ease of use.
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