Tony Deligio

Tony Deligio Executive Editor

NPE

Six-Axis Top-Entry Robot Debuts

NPE2024: Absolute Robot will debut the MaxCW10-1600A+B+C 6-axis top entry robot, featuring additional axes and updated control, as well as a Fanuc cobot automating a vertical press.

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Next-Generation Servo-Hydraulic and Electric Injection Molding Machines Launch

NPE2024: Absolute Haitian will introduce Generation 5 of the Haitian and Zhafir machines lines, emphasizing efficiency, performance and intelligence.

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processor's edge

Make Every Shot Count: Mold Simulation Maximizes Functional Parts From Printed Tooling

If a printed tool only has a finite number of shots in it, why waste any of them on process development?

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Thermoforming

US Merchants Makes its Mark in Injection Molding

In less than a decade in injection molding, US Merchants has acquired hundreds of machines spread across facilities in California, Texas, Virginia and Arizona, with even more growth coming.

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Measuring Strain — Not Pressure — for Precision Injection Molding

A contact-free sensor measures the strain the melt imparts on the mold wall and promises precise, reproducible measurements with lower maintenance, longer service life and blemish-free parts.  

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Molds & Tooling

Medical Molder, Moldmaker Embraces Continuous Improvement

True to the adjective in its name, Dynamic Group has been characterized by constant change, activity and progress over its nearly five decades as a medical molder and moldmaker.

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Molder Opts for Machine Flexibility for Complex Jobs

AE Plast opted for tiebarless multimaterial Engel victory machines as it took on complex parts for the appliance and power tool market, including a 3K housing for Dremel’s rotary tool.

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Top Shops Benchmarking Report: Molding at the Margin

In a world of rising costs and uncertain market conditions, the ability to wring maximum profits from existing business was truly the mark of a Top Shop in 2022.

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Absolute Haitian Expands Offerings into Machine Tools, Die Casting

The U.S.-based representative of the Haitian Group will now offer customers in North America that company’s metal cutting and die casting machinery.

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Automotive

Molder Repairs Platen Holes with Threaded Inserts

Automotive molder ITW Deltar Fasteners found new life for the battered bolt holes on its machine platens with a solution that’s designed to last.

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business

KraussMaffei and NIAR Propel Injection Molded Thermoplastic Composites

The maker of plastics processing equipment has placed a machine and an injection molding expert in NIAR’s ATLAS lab in Wichita, Kansas, to help molding, composites and aerospace take off. 

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Automotive

Atop the Plastics Pyramid

Allegheny Performance Plastics specializes in molding parts from high-temperature resins for demanding applications as part of its mission to take on jobs ‘no one else does.’  

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