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China Reimagines Its Manufacturing Industry
Nearly 40 years ago, China’s “Open Door” policy revolutionized the country’s economy, particularly industry—Can “Made In China 2025” keep “the world’s factory” humming?
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ROBOTS TO ‘COBOTS’: Next-Gen Automation in Plastics Processing
So-called ‘collaborative robots’ are a new category of ‘human-friendly’ automation that can work safely side by side with people, unprotected by guarding.
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Make Your Machine Time Count
At the end of the day, injection molders are ultimately only selling one thing: machine time.
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Engel to Host Technology Symposium in Southern California
Presentations from market leaders, partner booths and live machine demonstrations on tap in Corona, Calif.
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Chinaplas Marks 30th Edition in Shanghai This April
There is a long-held Chinese maxim about being around for three decades: “At 30 one stands firm.”
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Plastics Technology’s Most-Viewed Articles of 2015
From how to’s to best methods to troubleshooting, the most-viewed articles on Plastics Technology in 2015 are typified by timeless technical advice and insights.
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Plastics Technology’s Most-Viewed Columns of 2015
Materials, and the effects temperature and pressure have on them, are fundamental to plastics processing, and no where is that more clear than in Plastics Technology’s most-viewed columns of 2015.
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Happy Birthday to the Reciprocating Screw!
2016 marks the 60th anniversary of the patenting of the reciprocating screw injection molding machine, and there are some who argue little has changed in the technology in the intervening six decades.
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Proxy Biomedical Announces Expansion
Irish medical implantable devices manufacturer to double cleanroom facilities as part of expansion that will be completed in the second quarter of 2016.
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Top of the Class: Meet 2015’s World-Class Processors
Plastics Technology’s inaugural group of World-Class Processors—selected through an exclusive benchmarking survey—spans geographies, markets, processes, and materials. Diverse in size and capabilities, these companies have one key trait in common: efficiency. How do you stack up in comparison?
Read MorePortuguese Blow Molder Expands Kansas City Plant
Logoplaste will invest $35 million to expand its facility in Kansas City, making it the company’s new U.S. manufacturing and distribution hub.
Read MoreChemical Regulation Reform Clears Senate
In a move hailed by SPI, the ACC and other trade groups, the U.S. Senate passed legislation to reform the country’s 39-year-old chemical regulation: TSCA.
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