Injection Molding
Ten Tips to Slash Cycles in PET Preform Molding
Here are some tricks of the trade to make your preform processing more productive, even if you don’t have the latest souped-up press.
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Injection Molding, California Style
There are particular challenges associated with plastics processing in the Golden State. But opportunities beckon for those who can overcome them. That’s the story of AMA Plastics.
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Processors’ Growth Returns
After a one-month dip, the market expands once more, though the rate has slowed.
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TOOLING: Venting: A View From the Trenches
Venting is a prime culprit for molding problems, partly because toolmakers and process techs have different ideas of what’s needed.
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INJECTION MOLDING: Scientific Molding Gone Wrong
Sometimes molders get trained in Scientific Molding only to revert to their old way of doing things as soon problems pop up.
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Tiebarless Training in Tennessee
A manufacturing education center and two new Engel injection molding machines are doing their part in Tennessee to help feed that state鈥檚 voracious appetite for skilled plastics workers in its burgeoning automotive industry.
Read MoreTech-Plas to purchase eight Toshiba machines
Tech-Plas will begin using the all-electric ECSX machines later this year to custom mold small parts for the electronics, medical, pharmaceutical and furniture industries.
Read MoreMission Point Energy talks the benefit of cogeneration systems for processors
For a customer in northern Mexico, Mission Point will install six modular systems that will generate 720 kW of electricity to produce 1,200 tons of chilled water capacity for use in its injection molding and assembly processes.
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Last Chance to Benchmark Your Hourly Rates
Get your data in now for the Dec. 2014 Hourly Rates Survey, or we'll have to cancel that 6-month update.
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Study Finds Jam Bars Redundant: U.S. and European IM Suppliers Move Closer Towards Harmonization
Ruled redundant, could jam bars be going the way of plungers on new injection molding machines sold into the U.S.?
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