End Markets
Materials: Glass and Carbon Fiber-Reinforced PP for Automotive
Borealis brings its Fibremod PP technology to North America which boasts flexible designs with reduced weight and cost in automotive applications,
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Black Swan Be-Ready Planning
Even the most nimble manufacturers with the most creative crisis management planning were likely caught flat footed by coronavirus—how can you better prepare for its remaining surprises and future crises?
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Thermoplastics Structures the Focus of Engel’s China Composites Expo Presence
At the China Composites Expo 2020 (Sept. 2-4; Shanghai), Engel will highlight its thermoplastic based organomelt composite technology saying it represents the “answer to sustainable transport.”
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Blow Molding: Conveyor Designed for Integration with Blow Molding Machines
Compact unit can handle melt purges, separates tails and tips, and repairs quickly and easily.
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Spring-Water Bottler to Expand In-House PET Recycling
Two California bottling plants are producing Crystal Geyser spring water bottles with at least 50% rPET now. Soon, the company plans to be using 100% rPET in all seven of its U.S. plants.
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The Race for a Coronavirus Vaccine Spurs Syringe, Vial Production
As the world eagerly awaits a vaccine to inoculate against Covid-19, molders of syringes and vials are boosting production to meet what will be desperate, crushing need.
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Injection Molding: All-Electric Machine Line Boasts Smaller Footprint
Optimized toggle geometry on the latest e-mac from Engel shortens footprint without impacting opening stroke.
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W&H: Virtual Expo a Success
More than 2000 visitors from 120 countries tuned in for live flexographic and gravure press demonstrations, technical sessions and virtual meetings.
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Extrusion: 'Melt-Blown' Fiber: What You Need to Know to Enter the Face Mask Market
Coronavirus pandemic has made extrusion processors curious about entering the face-mask market. But melt-blown fiber is very different from most other extrusion processes and requires specialized equipment.
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Pretium Packaging Expands PET Blow Molding
Based in Chesterfield, Mo., Pretium Packaging has invested $5 million in PET stretch-blow molding equipment and infrastructure at six of its 19 manufacturing locations in the U.S. and Canada.
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