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Benchmark Your 2014 Molding Business
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Plasma Ski Patent: A Game Changer For Skiing
Innovative process modifies the functional properties of the surface of UHMWPE ski bases.
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Detect When Equipment Needs Maintenance—Before It’s Too Late
New technology to debut next month at NPE warns when preventive maintenance is needed, before equipment failure disrupts production.
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When Was Your Plastics Epiphany?
Michael Engler’s decades in plastics can be traced back to one week in middle school when his woodshop class briefly turned its focus on plastics.
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Manufacturing’s State of the Union Was…Mixed
Whether you feel it represents the basest form of political theater or the heights of patriotic rhetoric, the State of the Union Address is with us for good (barring an amendment to the Constitution).
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PC Sheet Enhances Aesthetics And Protection For Living Roof
Bayer MaterialScience's PC sheet has been used in an upgraded clamshell roof at the California Academy of Science's building.
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Micromolding Gets Bigger at Tessy Plastics
Micro parts are a tiny but fast-growing segment of its custom molding business, with potential to expand beyond the medical sector.
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Conair Lab Devoted to Pipe, Profile, Tubing Extrusion
New lab can develop and test complete extrusion systems for precision medical tubing to siding.
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SPI Launches Sustainability Benchmarking, 'Zero Waste Zone'
SPI is surveying members on sustainability practices to provide guidance for companies to improve their own practices. A Zero Waste Zone at NPE will highlight sustainable practices.
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‘Passive Variotherm’ Cooling Cuts Cycle Time at Low Cost
A hot/cold molding technique lets the injected melt do the heating while water flow is paused.
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Commodity Resin Prices Still Dropping - January 2015
Led by lower global feedstock and resin prices, commodity resin prices continue to decline.
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