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Molders’ Block: Dealing With Foreign Materials in a Hot-Runner System
Understanding plastic flow can help you understand how foreign materials move—or don’t move—through your hot-runner system.
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An Automation 'First' for Non-Servo-Eject Trim Presses
Compact, flexible and configurable robotic system is said to be the first to enable thermoformers to fully automate product handling after a non-servo trim press.
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Did I Make a Bad Hiring Mistake?
The unspoken cues and habits of a group—the rules that break relationships at work.
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Fast, Simple QC Method Directly Quantifies Recycled Content in Plastics
Novel fluorescence-based spin-out technology provides a rapid and reliable method to measure and certify recycled content in a wide range of plastics.
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UBQ Partners with Polymer-Metallization Specialist Polymertal to Create Lightweight, Sustainable Material for Complex Assemblies with Metallic Functionalities
Polymertal’s cutting-edge metal plating processes enable production of cost-effective hybrid metal-polymer parts for automotive, aerospace, communications and industrial sectors.
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Need a Better Way to Convey Powders from Point A to Point B?
Vacuum conveying systems for powders and difficult-to-convey materials involves a starting point and a destination where hazards need to be avoided along the way. Here are the top 10 tips to design a system to maximize movement and minimize dust exposure.
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Arburg Donates 600,000 Euros to Aid Ukraine
Two medical and children’s aid organizations receive 200,000 euros each in response to the war in Ukraine.
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Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: Acetal
The road from discovery in the lab to commercial viability can be long, and this was certainly the case for acetal polymers.
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Powder Coating With Recycled Plastic
Sherwin-Williams’ Powdura ECO line uses rPET resin to make a green finishing process even greener.
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LLDPEs Combine Stiffness, Toughness & Easy Processing
ExxonMobil’s new Exceed S series can reduce the complexity of film structures and formulations while boosting processability and film performance.
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Most-Read Articles on Plastics Technology April 2022
From resin pricing and irritating packaging to maximizing purging efficiency, getting rid of bubbles and how to set up mold protect—here are the top 10 most-read articles for April.
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Pyramid’s Relentless Pursuit of Quality
Instilling a culture of quality, and the ability to offer tooling from a sister company, are pushing Pyramid Plastics to new heights.
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