Blow Molding
What to See at NPE 2006: Blow Molding
Show-goers will see a range of new blow molding equipment that offers higher speeds, more cavitation, and faster changeovers.
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NPE News Preview: Blow Molding--Higher Speeds, More Cavities, Faster Changeovers
Improving productivity while minimizing capital cost and floorspace will be central themes of blow molding exhibits at NPE 2006.
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Small Fuel Tanks: New Emissions Rules Spur Hunt for Barrier Solutions
Coex blow molding has the inside track, but makers of small gas tanks and jerry cans are also looking at fluorination and other monolayer systems. Rotomolders, too, are considering multilayer alternatives.
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Smart Handling of Regrind Can Improve Your Bottom Line
Dealing effectively with regrind has been a tough challenge for most blow molders ever since the process was invented.
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Blade System Puts Ribs Into Structural Blow Molded Parts
A novel blow molding process incorporates movable blades within the tool to create a ribbed structure for load-bearing automotive parts.
Read MoreNew Association for IML, IMD
Last month saw the official start-up of the In-Mold Decorating Association (IMDA), an association of molders, printers, materials suppliers, and equipment manufacturers involved in in-mold labeling and decorating (IML and IMD) for any plastics process.
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How to Fix Pinch-Off Failures
Extrusion blow molded parts often fail at the parison pinch-off seam of the mold parting line.
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Headlines for the Next 50 Years
Ever wonder what it would be like to get tomorrow’s newspaper today? After reviewing the most important technical developments of the past 50 years in our October issue, we asked industry experts to help us imagine the biggest headlines in plastics from now to 2055. What we got was a mixture of predictions of what will happen and a wish list of what should happen.
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Roller-Coaster History For Early Blow Molder
The history of Borse Plastics Products, an extrusion blow molder founded in 1963, reads like that of many other trailblazers in this process.
Read More50 Ideas That Changed Plastics
Very few readers of this issue can remember, or even imagine, what it was like when an injection molding machine did not have a screw, but only a smooth-bore plunger.
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