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Reshoring, Taiwanese style
One of the first waves of offshoring to China is ebbing back, as Taiwanese companies rethink manufacturing on the mainland.
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A Piece of History Comes Home
Almost 50 years and 40,000 machines after it started making them, Milacron now has the third injection molding machine it ever built back in its possession and on display.
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'Germ Warfare’: New Materials Withstand Sterilization, Disinfectant Barrage
At recent Plastec West show, material suppliers introduced grades that can withstand more and more varied sterilizations and/or materials that utilize specialty additives to impart antimicrobial properties.
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In praise of ‘dictators’
Collaboration is good, except when it’s not. Sometimes instead of many voices seeking harmony, a project needs one [forceful] voice to be successfully completed.
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100% biobased polyester charts course to commercialization
Avantium's PEF (polyethylene furanoate) holds much promise as a 100% biobased polyester, and now the company is taking steps to help the bioplastic fully realize that potential.
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Could your RFQ process be jeopardized by a retirement?
The moldmaking industry has lately lamented its talent depletion by demographic shift, as aging toolmakers step away from their benches for the last time, primarily focusing on the shopfloor and steel-cutting implications, but what about the front office and quoting?
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SOFTWARE: More accurate quotes, faster
Cost-estimating software is taking mold quoting from back-of-the-envelope guesswork to computer-generated model.
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What Are the Latest Trends in Molding Rates?
How do your hourly machine rates stack up with those of your competitors?
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“Maybe BPA isn't so bad after all”
That’s how Jon Hamilton, a reporter at National Public Radio’s (NPR) science desk, began his story this week on a new report by government scientists published in the journal Toxicological Sciences, which concludes what many reports on bisphenol A (BPA) already have.
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Chinaplas 2014 shows its green side
Traditional Chinese culture has five standard colors—green, red, yellow, white and black—which were associated with the elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water, respectively.
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The Truth About Reshoring
Reshoring is not just a buzzword, it’s an economically driven correction to a supply chain that had become unbalanced.
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Hyundai targets N.A. Market with Korean made injection molding machines
Korean car makers setting up shop in the United States are increasingly bringing their suppliers along. In a recent twist, however, now their suppliers’ suppliers are coming stateside as well, with the latest—Hyundai Injection Machinery—sharing its roots with the Korean conglomerate and automaker of the same name.
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