Articles

All Electric & Hybrid Machines 24 Apr 2015

Tiebarless Training in Tennessee

A manufacturing education center and two new Engel injection molding machines are doing their part in Tennessee to help feed that state’s voracious appetite for skilled plastics workers in its burgeoning automotive industry.

23 Apr 2015

IQMS launches new Tier 1 advanced warehouse management system

Some of the highlights include: directed task monitoring, wave management, dock scheduler, expected receipts and slotting optimization modules.

Packaging 23 Apr 2015

Price Hikes On Nylon 66 and 6 Underway?

While price increases for nylon 66 are attributed to supply contraints, those for nylon 6 are linked to upward raw material costs.

sustainability 21 Apr 2015

Erema introduces new system for regrind recycling

The RegrindPro is said to answer a growing demand for the effective processing of regrind materials into high-quality recycled pellets.

sustainability 21 Apr 2015

System to recycle waste into 3D-printed filament to use in space

Tethers’ Positrusion recycler will turn plastic waste on the International Space Station (ISS) into high-quality 3D-printed filament.

Injection Molding 20 Apr 2015

Tech-Plas to purchase eight Toshiba machines

Tech-Plas will begin using the all-electric ECSX machines later this year to custom mold small parts for the electronics, medical, pharmaceutical and furniture industries.

Injection Molding 16 Apr 2015

Mission Point Energy talks the benefit of cogeneration systems for processors

For a customer in northern Mexico, Mission Point will install six modular systems that will generate 720 kW of electricity to produce 1,200 tons of chilled water capacity for use in its injection molding and assembly processes.

15 Apr 2015

Without Data All You Have Is An Opinion

That saying, paraphrased here and attributed by some to manufacturing guru W. Edwards Deming, can be applied to Plastics Technology’s inaugural World Class Processors’ Survey.

15 Apr 2015

Auxiliaries: A New Frontier in Metal Replacement

Stainless steel has been the de facto material choice for machine components like tanks and hoppers for forever, but do rotomolded plastics make more sense?

Additives 15 Apr 2015