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Take Time to Save Time: Five Steps in Mold Design to Reduce Back-End Troubleshooting
Westminster Tool shares how the one week it typically takes to perform these five steps in the design phase can save three weeks or more in an overall tool build.
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MMT Chats: Twice the Efficiency with Canon Virginia Inc.'s Shuttle Mold System
In this MMT Chat, MoldMaking Technology Editorial Director Christina Fuges had the chance to discuss Canon Virginia Inc.'s Shuttle Mold System with Director of Business Development Wayne Daniel.
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How Production Monitoring Can Make You a Better Processor
Real-time information on all your production equipment not only boosts productivity and profitability, but it encourages proactive vs. reactive thinking and sharing of best practices. See how this approach benefited a blow molder with 19 plants.
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North American Robotics Market Experienced Best Quarter Ever
The first three months of 2022 were up 28% over the same time period in 2021, while globally robot sales for 2021 rose 27% year over year.
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Extruding PCR? Consider a Vented Extruder
You’ll need two-stage screws to extract volatiles that post-consumer reclaim will likely contain. Screw design can be a complex balancing act. Here’s what you need to know.
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100% Cellulose Film Resin Adopted by Restaurant Chain for Take-Out Packaging
Woodly and film converter Amerplast have applied the novel material to commercialization of heat-sealed sandwich bags.
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Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Aliphatic Polyketone
Aliphatic polyketone is a material that gets little attention but is similar in chemistry to nylons, polyesters and acetals.
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Sustainability: What Does It Actually Mean?
Is your business adapting—or ready to adapt—to growing calls for sustainability? It would help to know what sustainability really means to those who are pushing for it as a key social, governmental and industrial goal.
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Plastics Technology’s Most Popular Articles: May 2022
Resin pricing, screw design’s impact on gels in films, hiring mistakes, getting rid of bubbles in injection molding and the basics of leader pins and bushings in tools were just some of the most-viewed articles at PTonline.com in May.
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Pregis Performance Flexibles: In the ‘Wow’ Business
Pregis went big and bold with investment in a brand-new, state-of-the-art plant and spent big on expanding an existing facility. High-tech lines, well-known leadership and a commitment to sustainability are bringing the “wow” factor to blown film.
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What’s Your Sustainability Plan?
If you don’t have one, you should think about it. There are many ways beyond using recycled materials that a processor can make its facility more planet-friendly.
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Vacuum System Gives Molds a Chance to Vent
When the in-house vacuum systems and tooling tricks that NMC Dynaplas usually deploys to deal with trapped gas failed, it turned to a Mold-Vac system and saw reject rates go from 44% to zero.
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