ICYMI: June Roundup
Summer is in full swing! If you didn’t get a chance to keep up this month, we’ve rounded up the most-read articles based on our readers.
Sources: Rehrig Pacific, Getty Images, Mark A. Spalding
Summer is in full swing! As production heats up for the summer, so did the interest in topics that help boost efficiency, cut costs, and stay ahead of industry trends. If you didn’t get a chance to keep up this month, we’ve rounded up the most-read articles based on our readers.
10. Keeping Process Water Cool and Efficiency High in the Desert
Rehrig Pacific turned to Process Cooling Systems to create a high-efficiency plantwide process-cooling system for its newest injection molding facility outside of Phoenix.
9. Pursuing Paperless: Injection Molders Who Have Embraced Digitization
Read about injection molders who have shifted everything from quality control and scheduling to production and process monitoring to the digital realm.
8. Better Manufacturing Data Empowers Plastics Processors to Make Better Decisions
What’s needed to take all the data pulled from production planning, production monitoring and quality control systems and put it in the hands of the right people at the right time?
The second new robot at Currier places filled trays of HDPE bottles on a pallet. The new robots eliminated one operator from that shuttle blow molding line. Source: Currier
7. Blow Molder’s Packing & Shipping Upgrades Save Bottle Customer Over $90,000
Currier Plastics’ continuous improvement program brought new efficiencies in processing, packaging and shipping for the molder and for a bottle customer.
6. The Role of Policy in Accelerating Advanced Recycling: How EPR Can Drive Circularity
Extended producer responsibility laws are emerging as a key mechanism to shift packaging waste management dynamics.
5. Why ‘Smart’ Blending May Be Right for You
Industry 4.0 smart controllers dial in the right recipes quickly with gain-in-weight blenders to eliminate material waste, cost overruns.
Despite advances in technology over the years, many processing operations still use rudimentary methods to mix resin with additives. Source: ACS Group
4. Polymer Showdown — POM vs. POK — May the Best Material Win!
Third in a series, The Madison Group pits leading thermoplastics against each other to see how they differ in processing characteristics, chemical resistance, thermal and mechanical performance and more.
An injection molded dog bone sample is tested in tension. Source: AGS Technology3. Skipping the Pellet for Efficient Recycling in Molded Engineering Plastics Applications
AGS Technology leverages deep experience in molding with recycled engineering materials for automotive and heavy equipment parts.
2. Let's Take a Deeper Dive on Compression Ratio for Single-Screw Extruders
Two real-world processes illustrate the importance of compression ratio.
DSC graph showing the glass transition temperature transition. Source: Suhas Kulkarni
1. Understanding Postmold Shrinkage — Why Do Part Dimensions Change Over Time? — Part 1
What role does the glass transition temperature (Tg) of a polymer play in whether a molded part will continue to shrink after it’s molded?
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