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What to Look for in a Modular, Reconfigurable Conveyor System
As conveyors have become a necessity on the plant floor, conveyor manufacturers have attempted to respond to end-users’ needs for flexibility by creating truly modular, reconfigurable systems.
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How to Manage Multiple Heads in Accumulator Blow Molding
Don’t believe the myth that you can’t successfully run an accumulator-head machine with more than one head.
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Nanolayers Come to Tubing
Nanolayer technology, an active area of development in films, is also making its way to tubing extrusion.
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Microcellular Foam Molds 'Impossible' Parts
At the Molding 2011 Conference in San Diego last month, sponsored by Executive Conference Management (executive-conference.com), Markus Lettau, director of sales and application engineering for custom molder Empire Precision Plastics, Rochester, N.Y., discussed some of the unique capabilities of microcellular foam molding.Empire has three injection presses equipped for the MuCell foam process licensed by Trexel Inc., Woburn, Mass.
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Heinz Ketchup Converts to Biobased Bottle
The sauce is red, but the new bottle is green—i.e., based partly on renewable plant-based feedstocks.
Read MoreToot Your Own Horn
One of the things that strikes me about North American plastics processors is how reluctant so many are to tell the world of their capabilities.
Read MoreVideo Polyethylene going up 5 cents
Although current market indicators support flat pricing on polyethylene the producers are still pushing for a $0.05 increase with a split ($0.03 in February and $0.02 in March). Crude oil is pushing $100 per barrel but feedstock prices are not seeing the impact. With the export market beginning to heat up, take a resin position to cover your needs through April while continuing to watch the feedstock prices and inventory levels to determine the next direction on price.
Read MoreSPI Seeking Help For Stricken New Zealand
The SPI is spearheading an industrywide effort to produce and ship 4,000 portable toilets to New Zealand in response to the earthqauke that hit the Christchurch area in a late February.
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Create a Maintenance Work (Bench) Cell
Get better results by improving the organization of your mold-maintenance operation.
Read MorePrices Up for Nylons, Polyesters, Acetals & More
WEB EXCLUSIVE: This month, prices are due to rise for engineering thermoplastics, composite thermosets, and UHMW-PE:•DSM Engineering Plastics said it would hike nylon 6 resins early this month by 12¢/lb, following a similar move by BASF in March.
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Prices of PP, PS Up, Flat for PE & PVC--For Now
The second quarter will bring a risk of higher prices for PE, PS, and PVC, driven primarily by higher feedstock costs and a strong rebound of exports.
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Four Keys to Consistent Tubing
Because of their use in critical applications, processors of medical tubing have little or no room for error.
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