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Packaging & Automotive Top the News
Food and consumer packaging was the focus of new developments in polyolefins and styrenics, while automotive was the main target for new engineering materials.
Read MoreHow Is It Working for You?
The Internet investment bubble may have burst, and some twenty-something ex-billionaires may have moved back in with their parents, but the "dot-com thing" is definitely not over.
Read MoreLeave the Lawyers Out of It
When someone has an original idea in plastics, they often seek a patent.
Read MoreFear of Buying
President Bush has urged American consumers to go on about their lives, spend money, keep the economy going. That advice can’t come too soon for plastics processors anxious to get idle machines working.
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Things Have Changed
"I live in New York." When I travel, that sentence always brings a reaction from out-of-towners—often positive, sometimes less so.
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Materials (K 2001 Preview)
New materials at K 2001 are weighted heavily toward the engineering variety, especially nylons, acetals, and TP polyesters. A large handful of polypropylenes round out the major news.
Read More"Sure, we sell all-electric machines"
A jump-on-the-bandwagon mentality seems to have gripped the injection machinery business with respect to the market buzz surrounding “all-electric” machines.
Read MoreChicken or Egg?
If your injection molding plant capacity is sold out and you aren’t really looking for new customers, then bless you, there’s no need to read further. Feel free to turn the page. For the rest of you, Plastics Technology is launching a new service this month that might help you get some of those idle machines running.
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High-Speed, Thin-Wall Molding Doesn't Need an Accumulator
Forget about using a gas accumulator or a special beefed-up machine to fill thin-wall parts fast. Just let the melt do all the work!
Read MoreGetting Answers the Old-Fashioned Way
Turning points in science and technology are not usually about finding the right answer but about discovering a better question.
Read MoreHot & Heavy
Plastics have succeeded for decades by doing things metals can’t match. Now they are doing what metals can do but plastics aren’t supposed to.
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How to Get 50% Higher Output Of Large PVC Profiles
With the right combination of die and cooling technologies, there’s no reason why extruders of large, complex PVC profiles cannot get up to 50% faster throughput than they are now used to.
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