Articles
How Was K 2022 for Blow Molding?
Over a dozen companies emphasized sustainability with use of foam and recycle, lightweighting and energy savings, along with new capabilities in controls, automation and quick changeovers.
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As Currier Grows in Medical Consumables, Blow Molding Is Its ‘Foot in the Door’
Currier Plastics has added substantial capacity recently in both injection and blow molding for medical/pharmaceutical products, including several machines to occupy a new, large clean room.
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Microplastic Flows in the Water Cycle
Tricky questions about the bits of plastic that seem to be everywhere.
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How to Improve Quality with Offline Inspection and Analysis
Automated sample testing with a light table detects the smallest contamination in flakes, micro granulates and sample test sheets.
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Hot Shots Injection Molded Part Competition Moves to PTXPO
Plastics Technology’s Hot Shots injection molded part competition is now part of the PTXPO tradeshow—enter today.
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Warpage Waylaid Via Simulation
Designed to form a component that would hold headlights in place, the mold was intended to produce a front-end automobile bracket. Instead of parts however, the tool’s real output was problems.
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Trillium’s New Funding Advances it to Next Phase of Commercialization of Plant-Based Feedstocks for ABS and More
Hyosung and HELM AG funded the new investment round to support Trillium’s aim to commercialize bio-acrylonitrile
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Plastics in the Home (Mine), Continued
What to do with a growing stock of reusable plastic shopping bags and a pile of plastic cutlery packs from restaurant takeout?
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Understanding Flow Fronts and Defects
Flow-front behavior and corrections are key to solving many common molding problems —what is your process’s flow trying to tell you about your part?
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Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Silicones
More properly known as siloxanes, silicones are a class of materials where no carbon is present in the polymer backbone.
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Prices Flat for PE; Down for PP, PS, PVC; Up for PET
Prices for both polyolefins and PS seemed to be bottoming out as production rates were lowered.
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Plastics Processing Contracts Again
October’s reading marks four straight months of contraction.
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