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monitoring 14 Jun 2022

How Production Monitoring Can Make You a Better Processor

Real-time information on all your production equipment not only boosts productivity and profitability, but it encourages proactive vs. reactive thinking and sharing of best practices. See how this approach benefited a blow molder with 19 plants.

LIM & LSR Molding 24 May 2022

Custom Molder Manages Growth on Several Fronts

Adding people, plants and machines, expanding capabilities in LSR, high-tonnage presses, automation and 3D printing—EVCO Plastics maintains momentum through challenging times.

industry 4.0 18 May 2022

An Automation 'First' for Non-Servo-Eject Trim Presses

Compact, flexible and configurable robotic system is said to be the first to enable thermoformers to fully automate product handling after a non-servo trim press.

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Recycled Materials 17 May 2022

Fast, Simple QC Method Directly Quantifies Recycled Content in Plastics

Novel fluorescence-based spin-out technology provides a rapid and reliable method to measure and certify recycled content in a wide range of plastics.

Commodity Resins 10 May 2022

LLDPEs Combine Stiffness, Toughness & Easy Processing

ExxonMobil’s new Exceed S series can reduce the complexity of film structures and formulations while boosting processability and film performance.

close up on technology 14 Mar 2022

Micro Mirrors Make for Special Molded Effects

Originally invented for use in currency, a new, patented optical security technology allows anti-counterfeiting design effects to be incorporated directly into injection-molded products and packaging.