Matthew Naitove

Matthew Naitove Contributing Editor

Windsor Group Coming Out with New Line of Injection Presses

Going beyond spare parts for existing Klockner-Windsor presses.

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Commodity Resins

Speed to Market: Pretium Stays Light on Its Feet And Ahead of the Pack

A visit to its largest PET plant illustrates how this versatile blow molder leverages design skills, a can-do attitude, and a high degree of production flexibility to supply custom products in ever-shorter time windows. A new thrust into automation will help pick up the pace.

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Hot Runners

Servo Valve-Gate Helps Auto Parts Weigh Less & Look Great

More uniform and lower pressure makes a thinner, better part.

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Automation

Shiny New Hot-Runner Plant Is High Tech Showplace

HRSflow employs automation, sophisticated software tools in its first North American production plant.

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Materials

Who Doesn’t Like Lower Resin Prices?

It depends on how you look at the figures on your ´óÏó´«Ã½.

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More Servohydraulic Presses Debut at Fakuma

Wittmann Battenfeld completes its line with three new models.

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Commodity Resins

R&D Thermoformer: Tek Pak Is Launch Pad For New Products

Toolmaker and thermoformer takes concepts to production-ready parts in record time.

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New Sensor Tech Monitors State of the Melt During Molding

Detect ‘true’ melt temperature, viscosity variations, melt density, and much more, throughout the molding cycle.

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Blow Molding

Solving the Mystery of Melt Temperature

Two new types of sensors are said to be the first practical means to measure "true" melt temperature inside the machine or mold.

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Drying

Measure Pellet Moisture Online: A Second System Debuts at Fakuma

Moretto will show a system to measure pellet moisture minute-by-minute and automatically adjust the dryer, if necessary.

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The Next 'Big' Thing in 3D Printing

Big Area Additive Manufacturing, or BAAM, is attracting entrepreneurs and machinery developers.

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Micromolding

A Very Small World: Micromolding at Makuta

Makuta Technics sweats the tiny details so it can run ‘lights out’ most of the day.

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Process Cooling