Matthew Naitove

Matthew Naitove Contributing Editor

best practices

Blow Molding Challenges Embraced at Metro Mold

“Others mold difficult parts. We mold the impossible.”

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Multicomponent

Two-Shot Molding Helps Make Reshoring Cost-Effective

With help from labor-saving technology, a maker of children’s dinnerware finds a ‘Made in USA’ solution to quality & delivery issues.

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Custom Molder Expands in ‘Leaps of Faith’

Who would embark on an $8.8 million plant expansion without new orders in hand? Someone who knows his customers very well.

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Beefier All-Electric Machines With Enhanced Control Features

Presses designed to dismiss the perception that all-electrics can’t handle larger, heavier molds.

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‘All-Purpose’ Screw for Injection Molding Handles a Wide Range of Polymers

A mixing section with replaceable dams is said to remedy the limitations of so-called “general-purpose” injection screws.

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Thermoforming

Reunion Party Celebrates World’s First Thermoformer

In one room, several centuries of experience at the granddaddy of all thermoformers.

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Automation

Machine Guards Get in Your Way?

Easier access to the point where a robot deposits parts on a conveyor—that’s what Carl Morris, president and founder of Itech in Arden, N.C., is looking for.

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Rethinking the Injection Screw: Is It a Trend?

Renowned screw designer Robert F. Dray wrote to me recently, lamenting that injection molding screw design has not received the kind of attention that the extrusion industry has paid to perfecting this fundamental processing component.

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Automotive

One of the Hottest Areas of Plastics Molding

Answer that question with a definitive “Yes” by registering to attend “Thermoplastics Composites for Automotive” (TCC Auto 2016) on June 15-16 at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Mich.

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High-Tech Molder Modernizes Its Fleet

EPC replaces older presses with its first all-electrics, in integrated cells from a single source.

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Mold Simulation

MOLDING 2016: New Approaches to Processing, Tooling & QA

The largest-ever annual Molding Conference included newsworthy technical presentations on a variety of injection molding topics. Here’s a selection.

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Packaging

Ahead of the Curve in Recycling

A pioneer in recycling milk bottles built a thriving business in plastic lumber, but blow molding with PCR has proved a longer, harder road to success.

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