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Finding a Niche in LSR Tooling
20 years ago, southern California moldmaker M.R. Mold & Engineering pivoted to LSR tooling, giving it a foothold in a challenging but growing market.
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K 2022 Preview: Injection Molding Closes the Circle, Digitally
Because the market requires sustainability—and important component of which is the circular economy—and sustainability requires digitization, all three will be major themes at injection molding booths at K 2022.
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Technology Days Returns
After a two-year hiatus, Arburg’s Technology Days event (June 22-25) returned in 2022 bring customers and plastics trade press from around the world to the company’s global headquarters in Lossburg, Germany.
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K Goes Platinum in 2022
When it comes to the plastics industry’s biggest international trade shows, only the triennial K show looks to evade the lingering impact of the coronavirus pandemic as it marks 70 years.
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Getting Charged Up About Electric Vehicles
Metal-to-plastics replacement stories are a classic of the genre for plastics publishing, and nowhere more so than in the automotive space.
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Pyramid’s Relentless Pursuit of Quality
Instilling a culture of quality, and the ability to offer tooling from a sister company, are pushing Pyramid Plastics to new heights.
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Regrind On the Mind
Discarding runners and scrap would always give most molders pause, but with record-high resin prices and sustainability front and center, putting those materials into parts instead of a dumpster is more important than ever.
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PTXPO: Present at the Creation
This week in Chicago, Gardner Business Media, publisher of Plastics Technology, put the wraps on the first ever PTXPO.
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Can Coinjection Help Solve the Coming Recycled Content Conundrum?
As companies push toward self-imposed recycled content requirements or are compelled to do so by governments, Mold-Masters positions its coinjection technology as a solution.
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Micro Mirrors Make for Special Molded Effects
Originally invented for use in currency, a new, patented optical security technology allows anti-counterfeiting design effects to be incorporated directly into injection-molded products and packaging.
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Plastimagen Returns
Almost exactly two years since the first pandemic shutdown and not quite three years removed from the last version of this event, Mexico and Latin America’s plastics industry reunited in person—and in masks—at Plastimagen 2022 in Mexico City.
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Working Towards a Global Plan for Plastics Pollution
Less than a week before the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) convenes in Nairobi with the goal of creating a global treaty on plastics pollution, the OECD attempted to map out the breadth and depth of the issue.
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