Matthew Naitove

Matthew Naitove Contributing Editor

sustainability

Ban ‘Single-Use’ Plastics? What If They’re Not ‘Single’ Use?

Today’s high-quality bowls and trays for deli foods and restaurant carry-out should not be branded with the despised “single-use” label.

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Automation

How to Make Your Pneumatics ‘Smart’

Emerson’s Avantics Smart Pneumatics Analyzer digitizes the analog pneumatic environment and monitors and analyzes key operating data.

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Hot Runners

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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Hot Runners

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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Automotive

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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Automotive

Super-Compact Auxiliary Injection And Intrusion Units

Unusually compact secondary injectors outfit standard presses for multicomponent and sandwich molding.

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processor's edge

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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大象传媒

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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