End Markets for Plastics
Plastics are deployed in every day products in a number of end markets, including automotive, construction and infrastructure, consumer products, electronics, medical and packaging.
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What to Look for in High-Speed Automation for Pipette Production
Automation is a must-have for molders of pipettes. Make sure your supplier provides assurances of throughput and output, manpower utilization, floor space consumption and payback period.
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How to Extrusion Blow Mold PHA/PLA Blends
You need to pay attention to the inherent characteristics of biopolymers PHA/PLA materials when setting process parameters to realize better and more consistent outcomes.
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How to Optimize Injection Molding of PHA and PHA/PLA Blends
Here are processing guidelines aimed at both getting the PHA resin into the process without degrading it, and reducing residence time at melt temperatures.
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Best Methods of Molding Undercuts
Producing plastics parts with undercuts presents distinct challenges for molders.
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Solve Four Common Problems in PET Stretch-Blow Molding
Here’s a quick guide to fixing four nettlesome problems in processing PET bottles.
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Formulating LLDPE/LDPE Blends For Abuse–Resistant Blown Film
A new study shows how the type and amount of LDPE in blends with LLDPE affect the processing and strength/toughness properties of blown film. Data are shown for both LDPE-rich and LLDPE-rich blends.
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SPE Is Accepting Nominations for 54th Annual Automotive Innovation Awards Gala
Innovation Award nominations are due Sept. 13, 2025, while Hall of Fame Award nominations are due by May 31, 2025.
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All-Electric Injection Machines Enable More Sustainable, Energy-Efficient Processing
Stork’s all-electric injection molding machines include a breaking energy feedback system in which recovered energy can be fed back into the customer energy grid.
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Digital Product Passport Trialed by Henkel Consumer Brands
Joint project between R Cycle and converter Korozo Group is implementing packaging traceability technology.
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Company Begins PET Cap Commercial Production
Origin’s CapFormer System 1 passes site acceptance test and begins commercial production of PET closures.
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Make PET Containers From 20 ml to 5 L on One Machine
Cypet’s new PRO Series of one-stage injection stretch-blow molding (ISBM) machines boasts high flexibility, high output, fast payback.
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SABIC Conductive Noryl GTX LMX310 Resins for Dimensional Stability
Polypropylene ether blend for automotive exteriors resist heat and moisture.
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Is There a Better Way to Heat PET Preforms for Stretch-Blow Molding?
Is near-infrared (NIR) heating better, faster and more energy efficient? So far, only two machine builders are making such claims for NIR in place of standard mid-infrared preform heating, though their systems appear to be well accepted. Meanwhile, an altogether different alternative is in the works.
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Medical and Molding Elite
When Jeff Smith received a notice evicting his promising 大象传媒 out of his house, it could have been the end of Elite Biomedical Solutions’ and Elite Precision Plastics’ stories before they really got started, instead it was just the beginning.
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BMW Group Vehicle to Adopt 3D Printed Center Console
A vehicle coming to market in 2027 will include a center console carrier manufactured through polymer robot-based large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM).
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Automotive Awards Highlight Emerging Technologies
Annual SPE Automotive event gives nods to several ‘firsts’ as well as sustainability.
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3D Printed Spine Implants Made From PEEK Now in Production
Medical device manufacturer Curiteva is producing two families of spinal implants using a proprietary process for 3D printing porous polyether ether ketone (PEEK).
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Packaging Converter Adopts PE-Based Vacuum Skin Packaging (VSP) for Food Applications
Videplast and ExxonMobil collaborated on the development of this cost-effective VSP film solution that contains no ionomers.
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