Products

NPE

Plastic Mold and Tooling Alloys Featured

Materion has the MoldMax product line on display at NPE2018 in booth W5966.

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Packaging

Collaborative Robots Help Automate Blow Molding Lines

Collaborative robot arm automates bottle/jar packing at half the cost of conventional automation.

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Additives

Variegated Effects Colorants for Polyolefin Indoor/Outdoor Consumer Goods

Teknor's new effects colorants produce mottled, swirled, streaked or 'camouflage' colors for coolers, kayaks, containers and more.

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industry 4.0

Arburg Molding Cells Show Off LSR, High-Speed Packaging, Automotive Composites, and Industry 4.0

Arburg’s nine exhibits include an Allrounder 1120H (730 U.S. tons), molding eight components of folding step stool from a family mold and assembling via robot.

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NPE

Solving the Puzzle of LSR Molding

See Milacron’s Enhanced LSR Package at work molding 16 puzzle pieces.

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NPE

New ‘Workhorse’ Toggle Presses from Milacron

Quantum servo-hydraulic toggle line offers clamping forces from 125 to 610 tons. 

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Molds & Tooling

Micro-Mold Demonstration Highlights Collaboration

Mold Craft Inc. demonstrates micro-injection molding NPE2018 with a Wittmann Battenfeld press and a Sodick vertical molding machine.

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Automotive

Integrated Metal/Plastic Processing for Teletronics

Engel combines metal punching and tapping with injection overmolding in one integrated process.

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Engel Rolls Out Decoject In-Mold Decorating Process

Fully automated cell that feeds a thin TPO film into the tool for back molding makes its North American debut. 

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Packaging

High-Speed Cap & Cup Molding

Engel shows how all-electric injection machines perform at 2-3 sec cycles.

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NPE

Engel Brings Economical Chinese-Built Machines to the Americas

Engel’s Wintec servo-hydraulic two-platen and all-electric toggle injection presses are now available here for general-purpose molding.

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NPE

Toyo All-Electric Presses in a Variety of Roles

LSR, medical molding, and custom machine demos. Plus a vertical insert press.

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Plastics Size Reduction