Blow Molding

Two New Blow Molding Tech Centers

Uniloy offers a range of new and expanded services for extrusion blow and injection-blow molders.

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Milacron Offers New Aftermarket Service Package

Bundling online apps for spare parts, maintenance, and remote monitoring for injection and blow molding machines and extruders.

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Process Simulation Advances For Stretch-Blow Molding

The challenges in molding simulation multiply along with the process complexity, making injection stretch-blow molding one of the most challenging areas to tackle. But one group is becoming a world leader in modeling ISBM and developing tools and hardware for process and product development.

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Materials

Catalyst Promises 'Better' PET for Preform Extruders and Bottle Makers

Patent-pending and tested catalyst produces PET with improved thermo-oxidative stability and other advantages for processors.

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Medical

Blow Molder’s Goal: Go Local on a National Scale

It's a rare feat: Combining three formerly separate blow molders under one umbrella while retaining their individual identities and "small company feel" for customers.

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Packaging

Carbonated Beverage Bottle Gets Even Lighter

Cutting soft-drink bottle weight another 30-45%.

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100% biobased polyester charts course to commercialization

Avantium's PEF (polyethylene furanoate) holds much promise as a 100% biobased polyester, and now the company is taking steps to help the bioplastic fully realize that potential.

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Compounding

Industry Expands Again

January was the third month in a row and the fifth time in six months that index was higher than it was one year ago.

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Packaging

The Truth About Reshoring

Reshoring is not just a buzzword, it鈥檚 an economically driven correction to a supply chain that had become unbalanced.

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Milacron Expands Aftermarket Business—Again

Milacron LLC, Cincinnati, recently completed the purchase of Industrial Machine Sales, Inc. (IMSI) and its sister company, Precise Plastics Machinery (PPM), both of Southlake, Texas.

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