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Index Reaches All-Time High … Again
Index hits record mark for second straight month, with quickening expansion in new orders, backlogs and production.
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Your Factory May Be Smarter, But Is It Less Secure?
A smart factory is a connected one but the same advances that allow you to check in on production remotely could allow others to tie into your plant.
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Gain More Control From Your Process
PSI Polymer discusses polymer gear pumps and why they’ve become necessary in extrusion.
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Chinaplas 2021 Kicks Off In Person
Postponed, rescheduled and ultimately cancelled in 2020, Chinaplas has returned this week with an in-person event featuring 3600 exhibitors in Shenzhen.
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Injection Moldable Glass Developed
Glassomer silica nanocomposite can be molded at 130 C with a secondary heat treatment resulting in pure quartz glass molded parts.
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Weak Links in the Supply Chain
From pandemic shutdowns to blocked shipping canals, overseas sourcing headaches are forcing many OEMs to rethink far-flung supply chains, particularly when it comes to tooling.
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Commodity Resin Prices Rise, But PP Falls
Supply constraints continue to be a key factor in further resin price increases.
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Technology Never Sleeps
Plastics Technology and MoldMaking Technology team up on a special print-and-digital May supplement that focuses on new products and technology drivers and trends to help keep you ahead of the competition.
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Novel Metal 3D-Printing Technology Optimized for Plastic Tooling
A new company called Mantle offers 3D printing equipment and materials that boast unique suitability for producing injection mold components, overcoming limitations of other printing methods.
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New Bottle Lightweighting Technology Saves Resin and Cost
Graham Packaging has developed a method of selectively reinforcing a bottle wall perpendicular to conventional parison programming.
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Connected Compounder
Fast-growing Alterra strives for “best-in-class” manufacturing operations driven by a custom-made Industry 4.0 platform.
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Designing Recycled Content: How Processors Fit In
Brand owners, material suppliers and processors weigh in on the challenges and opportunities of designing applications with recycled content.
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