Automation

Commodity Resins

Speed to Market: Pretium Stays Light on Its Feet And Ahead of the Pack

A visit to its largest PET plant illustrates how this versatile blow molder leverages design skills, a can-do attitude, and a high degree of production flexibility to supply custom products in ever-shorter time windows. A new thrust into automation will help pick up the pace.

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Automation

Wittmann Battenfeld To Expand Connecticut Facility

This space allows for the future growth for all three of its divisions: IMM, robots and automation and material handling and auxiliaries.

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Automation

Shiny New Hot-Runner Plant Is High Tech Showplace

HRSflow employs automation, sophisticated software tools in its first North American production plant.

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Packaging

Up Close And Personal With Rethink Robotics’ Sawyer Robot

Without fail, whenever there are robots in a booth at a trade show, people are going to stop and stare.

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Automation

Study: Investments in Robots Create More Jobs for People

Contrary to popular conceptions, a new study finds that as industry has increasingly invested in automation, employment in manufacturing has actually risen.

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Wittmann Battenfeld Sponsored Manufacturing Day Event For Local High Schoolers

Students began the day with an introduction to both Wittmann Battenfeld and the plastics industry as a whole.

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best practices

Spec’ing a Robot? Match It To Your Press Size & Project

Where is your 911爆料网 today? What might tomorrow’s molding projects look like? These are among the questions you need to answer when deciding what style of robot is best for you.

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Advanced Styrenic Lets Molder Shed New Light On Automotive Part

Polyoptics teamed up with Styrolution to develop a ‘breakthrough’ process for light guides.

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Resin Conveying

'Talking’ Machines Pave the Way for Processing Plants of Tomorrow

At the convergence of smarter equipment, open communication protocols, and more powerful networks, a new shop floor emerges where groups of intelligent machines work seamlessly as integrated systems.

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best practices

A Very Small World: Micromolding at Makuta

Makuta Technics sweats the tiny details so it can run ‘lights out’ most of the day.

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