Matthew Naitove

Matthew Naitove Contributing Editor

Automation

Funny Looking Robots

Super-high-speed pick-and-place units made their debut at a plastics show.

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Windsor Group Coming Out with New Line of Injection Presses

Going beyond spare parts for existing Klockner-Windsor presses.

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Speed to Market: Pretium Stays Light on Its Feet And Ahead of the Pack

A visit to its largest PET plant illustrates how this versatile blow molder leverages design skills, a can-do attitude, and a high degree of production flexibility to supply custom products in ever-shorter time windows. A new thrust into automation will help pick up the pace.

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Hot Runners

Servo Valve-Gate Helps Auto Parts Weigh Less & Look Great

More uniform and lower pressure makes a thinner, better part.

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Shiny New Hot-Runner Plant Is High Tech Showplace

HRSflow employs automation, sophisticated software tools in its first North American production plant.

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Materials

Who Doesn’t Like Lower Resin Prices?

It depends on how you look at the figures on your business.

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More Servohydraulic Presses Debut at Fakuma

Wittmann Battenfeld completes its line with three new models.

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Commodity Resins

R&D Thermoformer: Tek Pak Is Launch Pad For New Products

Toolmaker and thermoformer takes concepts to production-ready parts in record time.

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monitoring

New Sensor Tech Monitors State of the Melt During Molding

Detect ‘true’ melt temperature, viscosity variations, melt density, and much more, throughout the molding cycle.

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Thermoforming

Solving the Mystery of Melt Temperature

Two new types of sensors are said to be the first practical means to measure "true" melt temperature inside the machine or mold.

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Drying

Measure Pellet Moisture Online: A Second System Debuts at Fakuma

Moretto will show a system to measure pellet moisture minute-by-minute and automatically adjust the dryer, if necessary.

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