Multicomponent

Automation & Waste Reduction: A Medical Molder's Efficiency

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

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Multicomponent

New Multi-Injection Approach to High-Barrier Packaging

At last month’s Interpack fair in Germany, Netstal of Switzerland and two partners demonstrated a new approach to injection molding high-barrier rigid containers.

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Packaging

Multi-Layer Injection Molded Tubs Take on Thermoforming & Metal Cans

Kortec Inc., Ipswich, Mass., a supplier of multi-layer injection molding technology, is launching an altogether new system for making rigid barrier containers.

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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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Packaging

Foamed PET Bottles for Beer

Now the foam isn’t just on top of the beer, it’s all around it.

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best practices

Tips and Techniques: How MedPlast Became a Multi-Shot Specialist

It started in a garage and evolved into a multi-plant, $100 million operation that holds particular expertise in multi-shot molding.

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Multicomponent

‘Organic Hybrid’ Composites Highlighted at K Show

One of the materials trends hailed at this month’s K 2010 show in Dusseldorf was the replacement of plastic-metal “hybrid” composites with all-plastic “organic hybrids” in structural parts for automotive and other markets.

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Postprocessing

INJECTION MOLDING: Automation and Integration At K Show

There were new presses of all stripes aplenty at K 2010, but the “wow” factor was supplied by automated work cells and integrated manu-facturing systems performing multiple operations before, during, and after molding.

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K 2010- Injection Molding New All-Electrics & Hybrids Balance Performance & Economy

The world’s largest plastics show, coming up next month in Dusseldorf, Germany, provides ample evidence of the growing sway of electric drive technology in injection molding.

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Multicomponent

Processor Strategies - Cashmere Molding Inc.: ‘Compete Globally, Produce Locally’

What kind of a company increases sales by an average of 60% annually, including a 10% gain last year, in the depth of the Great Recession?

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Plastics Size Reduction
Process Cooling
Blending & Dosing