Blow Molding

Blow Molding

Milacron to Exit Blow Molding Machinery

Milacron intends to divest the blow molding machinery ´óÏó´«Ã½ as not meeting its profitability goals.

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PPA Inducts Eight New Members

Plastics Pioneers Association adds to membership roster following April meeting.

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Automation

Blow Molding: New ‘Lay-Flat’ Bottle Packer With Collaborative Robot

Proco Machinery uses a cobot to pack bottles on their sides rather than vertically.

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Packaging

Blow Molding: Mold Better PET Bottles 50% Faster

New “Zero Cooling” design moves preform cooling from the injection station to the conditioning station, allowing for overlapping cooling and injection of a new shot.

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Packaging

Blow Molding: New Six-Layer Coex Head for Packaging

Kautex returns to in-house production of six-layer blow molding heads for packaging.

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best practices

Solving the Bane of Stretch-Blow Molding: Off-Center Gates

There are many reasons why off-center gates happen, and processors should be aware of all of them to quickly find the ones causing the problem.

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Packaging

First All-Plastic Drum for Highly Aggressive Chemicals

Rikutec’s 200 L HDPE drum-in a drum competes with metal and plastic-metal versions.

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Blow Molding: Economical PET Machine Molds Two Different Bottles Alternately

PET Technologies has a new reheat stretch-blow machine for bottles of 3 L to 10 L.

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industry 4.0

Are We Having a Good Day? Real-Time Production Data Has Answers for a Custom Blow Molder

“Information automation” is one of the keys to running a successful custom blow molding ´óÏó´«Ã½ for Meredith-Springfield Associates.

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‘We Don’t Shy Away from a Challenge’

Meredith-Springfield thrives on technically difficult blow molding jobs that others avoid. Its latest pioneering effort is pushing the limits in the new field of EPET.

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Plastics Size Reduction