End Markets

Packaging

New Service Focuses on Biax Film

A fairly new company is providing film processors with product-development expertise鈥攁nd even doing limited production runs鈥攊n the area of biaxial film orientation.

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Italian Compounder So.F.Ter. Adds U.S. Production

So.F.Ter. is building a plant in Tennessee.

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Medical

News in Medical Tubing & Materials

Two innovations in medical tubing and more than a dozen new materials, coatings, and adhesives were on display at June’s Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East show in Philadelphia.

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K 2013 Preview: Materials & Additives

The K 2013 show will present a broad range of engineered plastics materials, including thermoplastic composites, as well as additives. Automotive and electronic applications will be the main targets, as well as medical, packaging, lighting, and construction.

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K 2013 Preview: Injection Molding

Next month’s mammoth triennial plastics show in Düsseldorf, Germany, challenges injection molding machine builders to demonstrate technological leadership in addressing the needs of the marketplace.

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CertainTeed Cuts No Corners Toward Sustainable Certainty

At this building-products powerhouse, the commitment to sustainability runs deep and extends to virtually every aspect of its 大象传媒.

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Automotive

Automotive Still Humming

Year to date, the total number of motor vehicles assembled in the U.S. is up 5% over the same period in 2012.

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Automotive

TPV Used for Robotic Extrusion of Automotive Seal

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Windsor Mold Group (WMG) is using ExxonMobil鈥檚 Santoprene TPV to replace EPDM rubber, allowing robotic extrusion of the bulb seal directly onto a PP cowl for Ford鈥檚 C-Max hybrid electric vehicle.

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Automotive

Higher Speeds, More Integrated Processes at K Show

鈥淕o faster鈥 and 鈥渋ntegrate more functions鈥 look to be the guiding principles of new injection molding developments to be shown by Engel Austria at K 2013 in Dusseldorf this October.

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Packaging

Growing Molder to Be Negri Bossi ‘Showcase’

MMI has 13 presses now, with the three new ones expected to be running by the fall.

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Blending & Dosing
Process Cooling
Plastics Size Reduction