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Chinaplas Opens With Record Number of Exhibitors and Space
Even as the overall Chinese economy cools, its annual plastics show continues to grow unabated with 2015’s edition boasting 3282 exhibitors and 240,000 m2 of exhibit space in Guangzhou.
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KraussMaffei to Expand Local Production of Extrusion Lines in China
Starting in the second half of 2015, KraussMaffei will begin production of its ZE 52 Basic twin screw compounding lines at its recently expanded Haiyan facility.
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Domo Chemicals Building New Nylon Compounding Operation in China
Construction is underway of a new compounding plant in Jiaxing, which will have 20,000 m.t./yr capacity by 2019.
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Solvay Steps Up Fluoropolymer Investments in China
As Asia becomes its largest market globally, Solvay is ramping up its investments in the region, including fluoropolymer production.
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Extreme Molding’s Joanne Moon Reflects on 38 Years
Nearly 40 years in medical plastics working in extrusion and injection with stops at an OEM, a startup, a material supplier and finally a custom molding operation give Joanne Moon a very unique perspective on the intersection of plastics and healthcare.
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Injection Molding, California Style
There are particular challenges associated with plastics processing in the Golden State. But opportunities beckon for those who can overcome them. That’s the story of AMA Plastics.
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Tiebarless Training in Tennessee
A manufacturing education center and two new Engel injection molding machines are doing their part in Tennessee to help feed that state’s voracious appetite for skilled plastics workers in its burgeoning automotive industry.
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Without Data All You Have Is An Opinion
That saying, paraphrased here and attributed by some to manufacturing guru W. Edwards Deming, can be applied to Plastics Technology’s inaugural World Class Processors’ Survey.
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Auxiliaries: A New Frontier in Metal Replacement
Stainless steel has been the de facto material choice for machine components like tanks and hoppers for forever, but do rotomolded plastics make more sense?
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Study Finds Jam Bars Redundant: U.S. and European IM Suppliers Move Closer Towards Harmonization
Ruled redundant, could jam bars be going the way of plungers on new injection molding machines sold into the U.S.?
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Frigel’s New Thai Production Plant Nearly Complete
Process cooling technology supplier Frigel, Scandicci, Italy, has nearly completed a new manufacturing site in Thailand that will boost its global production footprint by more than 50%.
Read MoreBeaumont Creates American Injection Molding Institute
Beaumont Technologies , Erie, Penn., is launching an injection molding certification program, hoping to fill the yawning skills gap facing the industry with some very well-known instructors.
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