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Windsor Group Coming Out with New Line of Injection Presses
Going beyond spare parts for existing Klockner-Windsor presses.
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New Family of High-Performancen Packaging LLDPE-Like Resins
Dow's just announced Innate Precision Packaging Resins boast unmatched abuse resistance and excellent processability.
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New Plastics Recovery Facility To Open in Baltimore
One of the biggest barriers to increasing recycling rates is a lack of infrastructure.
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Solve Venting Problems on Twin-Screw Compounding Extruders
Compounds must be free of voids and volatiles or else the material will cause subsequent processing problems. Here’s how to ensure your venting is effective.
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Why & When Should You Re-Crystallize PET Scrap?
Whether you’re blow molding PET bottles or extruding APET sheet, you’ll produce amorphous scrap in the process. How you handle it will impact your production costs. Re-crystallizing it will help.
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For This Molder, Less Paper + More Data=Higher Productivity
At Tessy Plastics, going paperless means more than idle printers and fewer orders for three-ring binders.
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Novel Coating Dramatically Extends Life of CPVC Screws
Molding parts of CPVC require Hayward Industries to re-coat its screws every 12 months. Now, thanks to a unique screw coating, it’s at eight years and counting.
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TOOLING: Dealing with Lifters--Part 2
This installment delves into more detail on some variables of design and fitting/timing of the lifters, which can cause issues or failures during molding.
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EXTRUSION: The Two Main Causes of Screw Wear
Wedging and misalignment are often confused with each other when inspecting a worn screw.
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INJECTION MOLDING: Gate-Seal Testing Done Right
Follow these 16 steps to perform the experiment and learn what is best for your part and process.
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MATERIALS: The Problems with Single-Point Data--Part 6
Data sheets can be limited in the information they provide on how the material performs at elevated temperatures.
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Lightweight Composites & Superfast Container Molding at Fakuma Show
Overmolded UD tapes replace organosheet with major weight savings. And 4 PP cups molded in 1.55 sec.
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