Injection Molding

Automation

Takaya Sugimura Named President of Yushin America

‘Gus’ returns to U.S. to lead robot maker.

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Medical

Materials: New LSRs Feature Optical Clarity & Nylon Bonding

Shin-Etsu’s latest are suited to lenses and medical devices.

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Convergence of Design and Manufacturing

Clear lines between makers and designers have increasingly been blurred, with manufacturers often taking on tasks formerly in the realm of a design house, and designers asked to think about manufacturability in their napkin sketches.

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Medical

Colorants: New System Allows Custom Liquid-Color Matching by Molders

PolyOne and 3M collaborate on quick recipe generation and mixing/dosing of liquid colors for in-house color matching by short-run injection molders.

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Absolute Haitian Opens Its First U.S. Machine Assembly Plant

South Carolina operations center to assemble and test larger presses and stock machines for faster delivery.

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Hot Runners

Haidlmair Spins Off New Hot-Runner Company to Sell Novel FDU Nozzle

Unique nozzle design for faster cycles at lower temperatures and pressures is now available to all moldmakers.

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Medical

MGS Creates Healthcare Center of Excellence in Wisconsin

The supplier of tooling, molding and assembly equipment is investing $20 million in its Germantown site, adding a Class 8 cleanroom and 20 presses, while consolidating its Illinois molding operations.

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Rethinking Machine Nozzle Tips: Hybrid Design Boosts Flexibility, Efficiency

New cold-sprue and hot-runner nozzle tips promise utility across a wide range of materials, eliminating the need to swap out different tips for different jobs while also promising to solve scrap and process issues.

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industry 4.0

AUTOMATION—PART 3 Cobots: The New Option for Injection Molders

Take all the versatility of an articulated-arm robot, and add the ability to work safely in proximity to humans without guarding, and you have a new option for freeing workers from repetitive operations.

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Automotive

How to Manage Pressure Loss in Injection Molding

Achieving a process window wide enough to ensure consistent part quality depends on achieving sufficient pressure at end of fill.

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