best practices
Strand Pelletizing: Follow These Steps to Determine Your Water Bath Length
Use heat-transfer equations as a shortcut to get you in the ballpark of how long your pelletizing water bath should be.
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What You Need to Know to Get into Coextrusion
Key considerations range from determining the right extruder sizes to tooling, matching material viscosities, and lots more. Take a look.
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How Can Molders Achieve Effective Process Monitoring?
You have developed a proper process; now you need to monitor that process to ensure its stability through a run.
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Materials Knowledge Pays Off at Teel Plastics
Well-equipped and well-staffed testing lab elevates competence of custom processor.
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Is Your TCU Up to the Job? Mold Simulation Can Give the Answer
For realistic results, molding and cooling simulation must reflect the capabilities of the actual TCU to be used. Here’s how simulation can help determine whether your TCU is up to the job.
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Follow These Steps to Purge Accumulator-Head Blow Molders
Preventive purging with a commercial product between resins or colors and during normal shutdown and startup cycles can prevent excessive loss of resin and production time.
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How to Prevent Nozzle Tip Leaks, Part 2
Your very costly mold in that very expensive press is relying on the performance of a $20 nozzle tip that no one ever checks, and has a high probability of not doing its job. Stop learning from your mistakes and start learning how not to make them.
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October's Most Popular Articles from Plastics Technology
Customizable 3D-printed prosthetics; new-concept cube molds at the K; fundamentals in PE, extruder alignment and nozzle leaks; benchmarking and more stirred reader interest at PTOnline.com in October.
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Exclusive Benchmarking Report: Top Shops Are More Than Just Molders
The 2019 Plastics Technology Top Shops Survey shows that for its highest-rated respondents, injection molding is just one element in a growing suite of services and capabilities offered to customers.
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