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A Walk Around Incoe’s New Hot-Runner Plant
A private tour—the grand opening of Incoe’s new headquarters plant.
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Water Injection Beats Gas Assist in Lightweighting Car Door Panel
Renault’s conversion from metal-frame construction to plastics prototype switched from gas assist to water injection. Here’s why and how.
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Placing a Bet on Bioplastics
Steinwall has put years of R&D into learning to design and mold with biopolymers and natural-fiber reinforcements. Now that groundwork is beginning to pay off.
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LSR Molders Now Can Tailor Cure Speed, Temperature & Durometer
Elkem’s LSR Select is enabling faster cures at lower temperatures and custom durometer blends. Dosing equipment has caught up with capabilities of this novel material system.
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Robot & Cobot Makers Are Pairing Up
Sepro adds its Visual controls to UR collaborative robots.
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Super-Compact Auxiliary Injection And Intrusion Units
Unusually compact secondary injectors outfit standard presses for multicomponent and sandwich molding.
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Injection Overmolding Widens Horizons For Composites Processor
A specialist in thermoset composites since the 1960s, CCP Gransden is a relative newcomer to thermoplastic composites and to injection molding. Its exploration of organosheet overmolding has opened up new potential.
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See It Live: The Ultimate Crossover of Injection Molding & 3D Printing
AddiFab, Mitsubishi Chemical and Alba Enterprises to demonstrate Freeform Injection Molding at Rapid + TCT show in May.
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See the Mold Filling on Your Press Control Panel
Arburg embeds flow simulation in its Gestica controller.
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Are You a Hot-Shot Molder? Test Your Skills Against Your Peers
Injection molding can be fun—try Paulson Training’s SimTech Molding Challenge to find out.
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Cobots Help Molder Find ‘Right Balance’ Between People and Automation
Short-run, quick-turn custom molder uses collaborative robots selectively to make people more productive.
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Micromolding Puts on a Pretty Face
A leading manufacturer of cosmetics packaging bought a dozen Wittmann Battenfeld MicroPower injection systems to mold micro components of dosing pumps for beauty products.
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