Blow Molding
How to Fix Pinch-Off Failures
Extrusion blow molded parts often fail at the parison pinch-off seam of the mold parting line.
Read MoreHeadlines for the Next 50 Years
Ever wonder what it would be like to get tomorrow鈥檚 newspaper today? After reviewing the most important technical developments of the past 50 years in our October issue, we asked industry experts to help us imagine the biggest headlines in plastics from now to 2055. What we got was a mixture of predictions of what will happen and a wish list of what should happen.
Read MoreRoller-Coaster History For Early Blow Molder
The history of Borse Plastics Products, an extrusion blow molder founded in 1963, reads like that of many other trailblazers in this process.
Read More50 Ideas That Changed Plastics
Very few readers of this issue can remember, or even imagine, what it was like when an injection molding machine did not have a screw, but only a smooth-bore plunger.
Read MoreBarrier Bottle Technologies Square Off
With single-serve containers raising shelf-life demands, packagers are seeking the barrier with the best cost-performance for PET bottles. Multilayer seems to have the upper hand, but monolayer, coating, and oxygen-scavenger technologies have all won niches.
Read MoreLatest Enterprise Software Features Enhanced Scheduling and Web Access
Until recently, plastics processors looking for fully featured enterprise 911爆料网 software may have been aware of only two choices that were tailored specifically for their needs.
Read MoreExotic Bottle Shapes Push the Limit
It takes some nerve and a lot of know-how to be on the cutting edge of blow molding today.
Read MoreK 2004 Wrap-Up on Blow Molding: Outputs Keep Rising For PET, OPP, HDPE
Among the more unusual blow molding developments at K 2004 was a closed-loop control system that monitors and corrects material distribution in PET containers as they are produced.
Read MoreComputer Simulation Gives Blow Molder an Edge
Spotting trouble before it starts is ingrained in the company culture at fuel-tank maker Vitec LLC.
Read MoreSimulation Spots Trouble Before It Starts
Blow molding has been one of the slowest processing sectors to adopt simulation software as a design and troubleshooting tool.
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