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TOOLING: Standard Components and In-Mold Monitor at K 2010
K 2010 news in tooling aims at helping injection moldmakers speed product to market.
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Four Key Markets Drive Material Advances At K 2010
Last fall’s K 2010 fair in Germany drew dozens of materials suppliers to show off hundreds of new products, aimed especially at packaging,medical, automotive, and electrical/electronics.
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Tips and Techniques: How MedPlast Became a Multi-Shot Specialist
It started in a garage and evolved into a multi-plant, $100 million operation that holds particular expertise in multi-shot molding.
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‘Organic Hybrid’ Composites Highlighted at K Show
One of the materials trends hailed at this month’s K 2010 show in Dusseldorf was the replacement of plastic-metal “hybrid” composites with all-plastic “organic hybrids” in structural parts for automotive and other markets.
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Materials: Algae to Replace Starch In Bio-Hybrid Compounds
In the continuing search for renewable raw materials to replace petroleum feedstocks in plastics, the newest candidate is … seaweed.
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PMC Proves It’s Not Too Late To Pioneer in Medical Molding
Molding medical devices is a high-end business that has proven more resistant to economic swings and to foreign competition than some other plastics markets.
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K 2010 Preview, Additives A Mix of New Ingredients at K Show
Want your plastic to mold faster, tougher, clearer?
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K 2010 Preview, Auxiliaries: Equipment of All Types Debuts This Month at K 2010
From materials drying, feeding, and blending to process heating/cooling, scrap reclaiming, testing, welding, and decorating—the K 2010 show this month in Dusseldorf, Germany, will have news in all categories of auxiliary equipment.
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INJECTION MOLDING: Automation and Integration At K Show
There were new presses of all stripes aplenty at K 2010, but the “wow” factor was supplied by automated work cells and integrated manu-facturing systems performing multiple operations before, during, and after molding.
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K 2010 Preview, Materials Higher Performance, Better Processing, And Now Sustainability Share Spotlight at K
The K 2010 show will present new plastics materials for a wide range of industries, which makes it hard to generalize, but a few markets stand out prominently: packaging, medical, automotive, and electronic equipment.
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K 2010- Injection Molding New All-Electrics & Hybrids Balance Performance & Economy
The world’s largest plastics show, coming up next month in Dusseldorf, Germany, provides ample evidence of the growing sway of electric drive technology in injection molding.
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