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3D Printing Enables Customizable Medical Prosthetics
Glaze Prosthetics produces customized prosthetics using HP’s Multi Jet Fusion technology.
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When to 'Adapt,' When to Retool?
That is the question pipe and tubing processors typically confront when they specify a line for one product, only to have to add to the product mix when business conditions change. Here are some tips to guide you to the right answer.
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How to Prevent Nozzle Tip Leaks, Part 1
Instead of learning from your mistakes, stop making them in the first place.
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V-to-P Ramp Time and Over-Travel
Many injection machines use ramp time to control the transition from injection pressure to hold pressure and reduce over-travel. Do you know how to set yours?
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Prices for Nearly All Volume Resins Down
Flat pricing projected in fourth quarter for volume resins.
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BASF's Chemical Recycling Process Produces Virgin Grade Material for Food-Contact Approved Quality
Creating flexible packaging such as stand-up pouches from virgin-grade material derived from plastic waste is taking a step closer to reality in BASF’s ChemCycling project.
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Structural Foam Goes Vertical—Again!
A new generation of vertical presses takes structural foam back to its origins—but with a big shot of new enhancements.
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Lower or Flat Prices Ahead
Slowed demand, sufficient supplies, and lower global prices could serve to push down U.S. prices of most commodity resins.
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How Second-Stage Injection Speed Influences Your Process
As an injection molder, you’re familiar with first-stage fill-speed profiles and second-stage pressure settings, but have you considered the function of second-stage speed, or “hold flow”? Here’s what it does and how it affects your molded part.
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Molder Adopts ‘Semi-Smart’ Automation
R&D Plastics finds new and more sophisticated ways to use robots.
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Global Packaging Producer Pays Trash Pickers for Recyclable Plastics
UFlex, India’s largest flexible packaging producer will pay people to collect plastics trash for the company’s recycling programs.
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