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Micromolding

New Injection Screw Breaks the Rules, But Fixes Many Molding Defects

“Revolutionary” screw design turns conventional plastication theory upside down.

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大象传媒

This Molder Wants Only the Tough Jobs

Need someone to injection mold fluoropolymers, highly filled PEE K, Torlon, or Ultem in complex shapes, tight tolerances, multiple cavities, and high volumes? 鈥淲e love doing this,鈥 says Tom Mendel, president of Performance Plastics Ltd. (PPL) in Cincinnati. 鈥淲e鈥檙e not for everybody.

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Multicomponent

NPE: New Machines Exhibit Sophisticated Molding Demos

More speed, more power, more precision, and more automated functions accomplished in and out of the mold. That’s exactly what injection machinery suppliers were offering at NPE2012.

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Taiwan Machine Builders Aim for Higher-End Applications

Major Taiwanese injection and blow molding and extrusion machinery OEM s plan to broaden the appeal of their brands by providing higher-end technology solutions at prices competitive with European or Japanese machines.

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monitoring

Injection Molding: Speed, Automation & Integration

Hot buttons at the show will be multi-component molding, in-mold labeling/decorating (IML/IMD), in-mold assembly, medical molding, liquid silicone rubber (LSR), micro-molding, and high-speed packaging.

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Sustainability Will Change Your Business

Do you have a sustainability officer yet? You might need one. It's probably even more likely that your customers have one, and you will have to pay attention to them if you want to continue to supply them with plastic parts or products.

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Molds & Tooling

Novel Molds & Machinery for Medical Molding

The combined MD&M East and Plastec East shows in N.Y.C. in June presented intriguing developments for medical injection molders.

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Automation & Waste Reduction: A Medical Molder's Efficiency

Vision Technical Molding in Manchester, Conn., doesn’t believe in standing still.

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best practices

Micro Molder & Mold Maker Succeeds by Specializing

 How small is small? How small is micro? How about parts weighing as little as 0.00012 g and measuring no more than 0.038 in. (1 mm) long?

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On-Site: A Molder’s Makeover

Technology Upgrades Revive Recto鈥檚 Business

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