Products

Additives: High-Temperature Colorants for High-Temperature Resins in Healthcare Applications and More

PolyOne’s Colorant Chromatic colorant/additive masterbatches for polysulfone-based resins offered in custom and laser markable colors as well as pre-colored compounds.

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Wittmann Battenfeld Upgrades Machines for LSR

Revised screw and check valve prevent leakage and enhance shot-to-shot consistency.

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color

Testing: Software Accelerates Color Formulation for Plastics, Coatings and Textiles

X-Rite Patone’s latest release of its Color iMatch boasts better match performance reducing the number of formulation steps.

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Commodity Resins

Materials: High-Performance PVC Elastomer Insulation Compounds

Teknor Apex’s new Flexalloy 89504-90 compounds provide multiple options for wire & cable manufacturers.

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Blow Molding: Economical PET Machine Molds Two Different Bottles Alternately

PET Technologies has a new reheat stretch-blow machine for bottles of 3 L to 10 L.

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Mold Maintenance

Tooling: First Mold Cleaner with Only EPA-Exempt VOCs

Slide Products spray-on mold cleaner meets or surpasses EPA and California CARB standards.

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Automotive

Injection Molding: Adaptive Shot-Size Control Now Available for Thermosets

KraussMaffei control for uniform shot weight now can be used with granulated thermosets, BMC/SMC, and liquid or solid silicones.

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Injection Molding: Machine Upgrades for LSR

Wittmann Battenfeld LSR injection machines have an improved screw design and integrate the dosing pump into the press controller.

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Testing

Testing: Advanced Thermogravimetric Analyzer

GARDCO’s new prepASH Series 340 is said to represent the highest level of TGA analysis.

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Automation

Material Handling: Automated Bulk Solids Drum-Dumping Station

Allows safe, high-capacity transfer from drums of all popular sizes weighing up to 750 lb.

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Automation

Material Handling: New Battery-Powered Laser Level Sensor

Allows use of level sensors on silos or in remote locations where inventory monitoring has not been feasible.

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