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VIDEO: Liquidmetal and Plastics Molding
Beyond a process curiosity, Liquidmetal's technology could provide plastics molders a path to metal parts production.
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Walmart, Apple and the Return One Million Jobs Initiative Seek to Reenergize Reshoring
Over 13 days: Walmart announced an open call for U.S. products, Apple promoted a $1 billion fund to promote advanced manufacturing stateside and a new initiative sought to raise $20 million to reshore one million manufacturing jobs.
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New Process & Material Permits Big Weight Savings on Foamed Parts
New firm develops technology that offers weight reductions up to 65% for large injection molded polyolefin parts.
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Molder & Moldmaker Embraces Minimalist Tooling Philosophy
RenyMed’s niche consists of projects where it can offer not only molding, but help in designing and making the unique, compact, modular tools that are a company specialty.
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What's Out There, What's Coming and Trying to Know What You Don't
Leading companies do three things consistently when it comes to technology.
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World-Class Processors: Meet Plastics' Preeminent Processors
Plastics Technology’s second annual benchmarking survey is back with a new honor roll of companies from across the industry. One of the ties that binds these progressive processors is their reliance on data.
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VIDEO: Predict Failure, Maintain Success
Is it still a repair if you fix the machine before it breaks?
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VIDEO: Extrusion Still Mixes Art and Science
On many extrusion shop floors, there’s likely a more experienced staffer who can tell something’s amiss with a line using only the instrumentation God gave him or her.
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Energy Consumption Made Visible
Molder adds system that allows it to track energy usage in nearly real time and is now using less power, despite increased production.
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Industry 4.0 on the Molding Shop Floor
To explain to a consumer the Internet of Things—Industry 4.0’s preferred U.S. name—experts talk about refrigerators that order milk when the current bottle is out. So what’s the practical-impact equivalent in injection molding?
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Augmented Auxiliaries At K 2016
Incremental improvements to existing technologies combined with altogether new advances at the giant show.
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Can Trump, GOP Usher in New “Golden Era” of Mfg in U.S.?
The Plastics Industry Association believes the potential good (business friendly tax policy + relaxed regulation) of the pending Trump administration will outweigh any potential bad (new checks on trade).
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