Injection Molding
Analytical Software Finds the Weakest Point
Piper Plastics uses proprietary FEA structural analysis to solve the mystery of why parts break.
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INJECTION MOLDING: How to Mold Living Hinges With No Flexing Required
Here are the five critical, intertwined components that must be perfected for a living hinge that doesn’t need to be flexed upon ejection.
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Milacron Launches “eSTORE”
Online ordering of spare parts, supplies, and whole machines and systems.
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Rapid Mfg Brings Innovative Irrigation System to Market
An innovative irrigation system went from art-to-part in two weeks thanks to rapid manufacturing from ProtoLabs.
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What’s Brewing in Technology to Make Coffee Pods
With more than 9 billion of them sold last year alone, the prospect of selling high-output production systems to make single-serve coffee pods must be enough to make a machine builder鈥檚 mouth water.
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Milacron to Show Wide Range of New Technologies at K 2016 Milacron
New developments in injection and blow molding, extrusion, hot runners, and tooling will be featured.
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Milacron Coinjection Tech Approved For Fruit Cans & Recyclable Coffee Pods
First-to-market clear plastic cans wil arrive early next year.
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Compression Molding Boosts Output of Coffee Pods
Cycle time of 3.2 sec for PP pods is said to be half that of injection molding.
Read MoreAthena Announces Organizational Changes
Harold Luttmann has taken over as acting CEO, in addition to his current role of Chief Operations Officer.
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Taiwan's Plastics Machinery Industry to China: It's Not You, It's Me
Despite being separated geographically by only the Taiwan Strait, which at its narrowest point is just 100 miles wide, economically, Taiwan and China are growing further and further apart.
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