Articles

Multiscrew 29 Sep 2011

New/Old Player in Compounding Machines

Two machine builders, each with more than 60 years’ experience in compounding, have united to furnish continuous mixing equipment.

Heating & Cooling 29 Sep 2011

Rodon Beats the Heat with 'Green' Cooling Towers

Custom molder The Rodon Group recently upgraded its plant in Hatfield, Pa., with three new cooling towers that replaced units that had been in service for 25 years.

Commodity Resins 29 Sep 2011

Commodity and Engineering Resin Prices Softening

As we enter the fourth quarter, price relief has already been felt in the four major commodity thermoplastics and four large-volume engineering resins.

Automation 28 Sep 2011

Mold Maintenance Training Eases Molder's Growing Pains

Automation Plastics in Aurora, Ohio (automationplastics.com), is a 32-year-old custom injection molder with 50,500 ft² and 30 presses from 35 to 700 tons.

Pipe, Profile & Tubing Extrusion 28 Sep 2011

Extrusion & Injection Molding in One Automated Process

A large German manufacturer of hoses, cable ducts, and other extruded automotive components recently expanded its activities into the white-goods appliance sector.

Mold Simulation 26 Sep 2011

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Do Flow Simulation ‘in the Cloud’

Autodesk Inc., San Rafael, Calif., has just made available a new version of its Moldflow Insight software that takes time-consuming meshing and analysis functions off your desktop and performs them at a remote data center accessed via the Internet.

6 Sep 2011

The Cost of Offshoring

Have you lost some business here and there over the years to overseas competitors because of price.

Construction 2 Sep 2011

New PC Sheet Offers Blast Protection for Buildings

A new type of “structural envelope” based on a special polycarbonate sheet laminate from Bayer MaterialScience LLC, Pittsburgh, is said to establish a new level of bomb-blast resistance for building structures.

1 Sep 2011

Could Polypropylene Prices Be Stable?

Very rarely do we see three months of stability in the polypropylene market.

31 Aug 2011

This Molder Delivers the Goods

Did you catch the story that appeared on Fox News on 8/30 about the irony of having high unemployment when manufacturers are having an extremely hard time finding qualified personnel.

sustainability 28 Aug 2011

Will You Soon Be Hiring A Sustainability Officer?

I recently received a press released announcing that Jad Darsey has been named director of sustainability and plastics for TricorBraun, one of North America’s largest suppliers of bottles, jars and other rigid packaging.