Tony Deligio

Tony Deligio Editor-in-Chief

Five Straight Years of Plastics Equipment Shipments Growth

One week before the sector鈥檚 biggest show, the U.S. plastics industry reported a surge in equipment shipments for the full year and final quarter of 2014, with solid momentum maintained heading into 2015.

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Scientific Injection Molding Goes Mobile With New App

Scientific Injection Molding gets the Android and iOS app treatment from an industry consultant who already created desktop software for the molding process.

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Injection Molder or Medical Device Supplier?

The line between molders and medical device suppliers is increasingly being blurred as formerly custom shops take on finished device production.

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Automation

Time to Automate Your Insert Molding Job? Answer these questions first

The benefits of automation—precision, repeatability, speed—are particularly suited to insert molding, but only if you heed the insert’s desires.

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Medical

Nypro Ramps Up Cleanroom Injection Molding in Texas

Nypro Healthcare initiated cleanroom injection molding at its Coppell, Texas facility in August, as the division of Jabil readies to launch a finished medical device.

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Drying

AUXILIARIES AT NPE: More Control, Flexibility, And Efficiency

These are key trends in the many kinds of auxiliary equipment displayed at this month’s show. You’ll also see equipment designed to be virtually ‘foolproof.’

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Mack Moves Into Medical Disposables With New Cleanroom

At a customer鈥檚 request and after a $2 million investment in people and technology, custom molder and contract manufacturer Mack Molding, Arlington, Vt., is making its first foray into high鈥恦olume, single鈥恥se medical components.

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大象传媒

Quoting a Job: the Good, the Bad, the Nonsensical

Quotable quotes: What are your craziest job-quoting stories?

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For Repeatable Molding, Add Some Variability

Engel finds repeatability in a variable process.

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Nine “Shots” Plus One Machine Equals a Unique LSR Molding Tech

How'd they mold that? One iPhone case composed of nine distinct LSRs molded on a single machine.

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More Korean Injection Molding Technology Coming Stateside

South Korea's LS Mtron, formerly LG, is coming back to the U.S. with a slate of all-electric injection molding machines.

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When Was Your Plastics Epiphany?

Michael Engler鈥檚 decades in plastics can be traced back to one week in middle school when his woodshop class briefly turned its focus on plastics.

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Plastics Size Reduction
Process Cooling