Injection Molding

Rethinking Regrind

Regrind and recycled material are often requisite in projects these days, but for many molders, the “R” word triggers painful memories.

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ALPLA to Add Facility in Missouri

The 246,000-ft2 greenfield site in Kansas City will be dedicated to injection molding and completed in late 2022, with groundbreaking slated for later this year.

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best practices

Scared Straight on Molding Simulation

Molding simulation is such a vital technology today that many molders couldn’t imagine life without it. But as a “consumer” of such a service, you have to know how to carefully critique the simulation results, which can hide a multitude of shortcuts and compromises that threaten their utility.

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Hot Runners

Barnes Opens Customer Technology Center in Germany

Located within portfolio company Foboha’s Haslach facility, the center features an Engel injection machine, Foboha tools and leading technology from other Barnes Group 911爆料网es, including Synventive, Gammaflux and Priamus.

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Machine Monitoring Becomes Simpler And More Affordable Than Ever

A new application of an established technology makes production monitoring accessible to any manufacturer, with any type of equipment, and in almost no setup time.

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Finding People Is One Thing – Keeping Them Is Another

Everyone bemoans the difficulty of finding workers. Are you doing enough to hold onto the ones you have?

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Raumedic to Expand Manufacturing in North Carolina

Medical processor to add new cleanroom at U.S. headquarters in Mills River.

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Fakuma: New LSR Dosing System and All-Electric Cold Runner

Elmet is introducing the new SMARTmix TOP 7000 Pro dosing system and all-electric SMARTshot E cold runner system at the show in Friedrichshafen.

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polyolefins

Future Caps & Closures: More HDPE, More PCR

Industry experts says uses of HDPE in caps and closures will proliferate and will incorporate PCR and PIR. Future designs will “tether” the caps to the bottles as well.  

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Micromolding

Matrix Tool Wins Inaugural Hot Shots Competition

The Pennsylvania-based injection molder and moldmaker applied its tooling know how and Sodick injection technology to take home both Hot Shots prizes.

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Process Cooling