Tony Deligio

Tony Deligio Editor-in-Chief

Is It Time For Injection Molding Machines to be Standardized?

If you looked at four machines from four different suppliers, you’ll find four different sets of icons and terminologies, all in different layouts.

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Multicomponent

Two-Component Parts in 15 Days Or Less

Proto Labs has added a quick-turn overmolding service in response to customer requests for cost-effective prototyping or low-volume production of overmolded parts.

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Taiwan's Plastics Machinery Industry to China: It's Not You, It's Me

Despite being separated geographically by only the Taiwan Strait, which at its narrowest point is just 100 miles wide, economically, Taiwan and China are growing further and further apart.

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economics

Advanced Manufacturing Has Outsized Impact U.S. Economy

But overall impact is waning, pointing to need for federal and state-local strategies to boost the sector鈥檚 growth and broaden its reach.

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economics

China Bets Big on Automation

With the full brunt of the Chinese government behind it, the country鈥檚 industrial robot inventory is forecast to explode 2500% from 70,000 in 2016 to 1.8 million by 2025.

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Tech Center Boasts Five Engel Machines and MuCell Technology

A new Detroit-area tech center gives automotive OEMs and their tier suppliers a production-scale lab to test the very latest molding technologies.

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polyolefins

Expanding Global Middle Class Equals Growing Energy Demand

There is a clear correlation between economic growth and energy use, or put more mathematically鈥攖otal people times higher living standards equals greater energy needs.

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Europe’s Plastics Machinery Manufacturers Concerned Over "Brexit”

The United Kingdom is both an important export market for Europe’s plastics suppliers, as well as a location for independent subsidiaries.

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Automotive

North American Auto Sales Will Tap On the Brakes in 2017

After spiking thanks to pent-up demand following the Great Recession of 2009, automotive sales will slow in coming years.

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sustainability

40 Years On, TSCA Reformed Marking First Major Update to Environmental Law in 20 Years

Plastics industry representatives and environmentalists hailed the passage of TSCA reform, a reboot four decades in the making.

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Additives

Snuffed Out: De Facto Death for Halogenated Flame Retardants

Market forces and self-policing are pushing the market for flame-retardant (FR) additives in a different direction.

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N.A. Plastics Machinery Shipments On the Rise in Q1

Shipments of primary plastics equipment in the first quarter were up 13.5% from the year-ago quarter.

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