End Markets
Injection Overmolding Widens Horizons For Composites Processor
A specialist in thermoset composites since the 1960s, CCP Gransden is a relative newcomer to thermoplastic composites and to injection molding. Its exploration of organosheet overmolding has opened up new potential.
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Cell Automates Overmolding, Inspection of Hypodermic Needles
Moldworx designed a mold, end-of-arm-tooling and automation cell to automate production of hypodermic needles, replacing manual post-mold gluing.
Read MoreNestlé Waters North America Wins 2019 Design for Recycling Award
Nestlé Waters received the award specifically for the design of its Nestlé Pure Life 700ml bottle made from 100 percent recycled PET plastic (rPET).
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Invista Shares Insights on Nylon 66 Value Chain Growth
Key investments in ADN capacity underway by Invista aimed at ensuring nylon 66 supply and growth.
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Evonik to Boost Production of Transparent Nylon Compounds
Trogamid CX production expansion scheduled for completion in first quarter 2020, says Evonik.
Read MoreFast-Growing Westfall Technik Acquires Two More Molders & a Moldmaker
Three purchases in the first quarter of 2019 add to the group’s focuses on medical and micromolding.
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Decorating/Finishing: New Automotive Decorative Laminating Technology Cuts Costs, Boosts Quality
Describing it as a “revolution in vacuum lamination,” Kiefel GmbH in Germany has launched Tailored Blank Lamination (TBL) technology for automotive interior components such as door and instrument panels, consoles, storage compartments, pillars, etc.
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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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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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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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