Injection Molding
Why Processors Are Rediscovering Liquid Colorants
In extrusion, injection, and blow molding, liquid color is enjoying something of a renaissance. Cost is one reason, but advances in pigments, carriers, delivery systems, and innovative service programs have played a role too.
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The Importance of Gate Geometry
Gate size and shape—unlike gate location—don’t often get the attention they deserve. Many common assumptions about gate geometry deserve to be challenged
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High-Pressure Water: A New Concept for Screw Cleaning
Everyone in a molding plant is on the same page for screw cleaning: Avoid pulling it until there is no alternative. Here are ways for dealing with the inevitable, including an altogether new technique.
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Taiwan’s ‘Time is Coming’ For All-Electric Machines
Taiwan鈥檚 plastics machinery market is a player on the global stage, except for one segment鈥攁ll-electric machines. The recent Taipei Plas show suggests that鈥檚 about to change.
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Key Themes from the Fakuma Show
Servo-hydraulics, servo sprue pickers, electronic water-flow monitoring/control, and exotic multi-process cells were the headliners in Friedrichshafen.
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Dispenser Molder Opens New Plant in Illinois
Worldwide Dispensers is up and running in Bolingbrook with 10 injection molding machines ranging in clamp force from 25 to 700 tons.
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Ford Recognizes Extol in SPE Automotive Innovation Awards
Cited for hot-plate weld tooling used to make glove box.
Read MoreCommercial Plastics Acquires Xten’s Assets
A tumultuous fall that saw it flirt with default is over for custom injection molder Xten Industries, which has been acquired out of auction by large-tonnage molding specialist, Commercial Plastics.
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Mack Molding Still Working To Bridge ‘Skills Gap’
Progressive molder hosts another National Manufacturing Day, develops intern program.
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Integrated Multi-Process Cells Hum at Fakuma Show
Why not combine plastic injection with metal injection, or bead-foam molding, or laser printing?
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