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Growing Compounder Targets Tolling
Illinois-based compounder BPC boosts capacity with high-output twin-screw to target more toll-compounding ´óÏó´«Ã½.
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NPE Wrap-Up: News in Primary Machinery, Part 1
Rounding up details from the Big Show not previously reported in all our other coverage, here’s more news in injection and blow molding, extrusion and compounding. Next month, we’ll conclude with recycling/scrap reclaim, robots, tooling, auxiliary equipment, materials and additives.
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Get Free Guidance on Molding Resins
Mobile Specs app and website provide processing parameters on thousands of resins … at no cost.
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Dual-Strand Profile Line Gives Extruder Twice the Output
Steady growth in product demand and a full manufacturing floor required profile extruder Intralox to get creative when it needed to upgrade its equipment.
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News Highlights from NPE2018
Developments in Industry 4.0, multi-layer preform molding, automation, LSR processing, and PP were among the major newsbreakers at May’s show. And one film processor finalized purchases of 13 new lines.
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‘Intelligent’ Cooling Helps Molder Improve Productivity, Profitability & Quality
Cost-effective and user-friendly process-cooling system gives custom molder the ability to do more with less.
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Global Film Processor Sets Sights on U.S. Growth
With six plants in four continents, Flex Films’ strategy is to offer highly customized, ‘holistic’ solutions in BOPET, BOPP, and specialized films and coatings.
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The One Company Solution
Primex has vertically integrated its color compounding, sheet extrusion, and fabrication ´óÏó´«Ã½es to provide a single-source solution to customers in a wide range of industries.
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The Pellets Have Returned, Too
Materials suppliers came back to NPE2018 in a big way last month.
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NPE2018 New Technology Focus: Pipe, Profile, Tubing
Check out what’s new in pipe, profile and tubing extrusion.
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Paulson: Fill the Skills Gap…By Training
Training may not be a glitzy as seeing a new machine at a trade show, but the payback is just as real...and it just might help you find and retain employees.
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Nordson Expands Worldwide Capabilities for PPS Business Unit
Parent firm establishing Polymer Processing Systems group as global ‘go-to’ source for multiple components required by companies across the plastics manufacturing value chain.
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