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Rapid manufacturing technologies tend to be focused primarily on making prototype and sometimes production parts.

The challenges in molding simulation multiply along with the process complexity, making injection stretch-blow molding one of the most challenging areas to tackle. But one group is becoming a world leader in modeling ISBM and developing tools and hardware for process and product development.

Material suppliers are committed to the ‘Circular Economy,’ as evidenced by their adoption of new technologies, product introductions and collaborations.

CT Scans See Inside Plastic PartsCarl Zeiss Industrial Metrology, Maple Grove, Minn., is introducing a service for plastics and composites that can detect and quantify voids, delamination, incomplete filling, and other defects through industrial computed tomography, or CT scanning.

Last month’s Big Blackout is still very much on my mind, not least because as I write this, my office still struggles without telephone, e-mail, or internet service.

The last dollars of a $105,000 worker-training grant have now been spent.

Storm clouds that gathered over Quebec in January 1998 held the proverbial silver lining for an innovative molder in the town of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

Many plastics processors are just starting to become familiar with the terms “additive manufacturing” or “additive fabrication,” which refer to a group of processes that build up parts by successively adding material, often in layers.

Demand for more robust plastics is creating new opportunities for radiation-crosslinked nylons, including nylon 6 and 66, which can serve as cost-effective alternatives to higher-cost, high-heat thermoplastics. Crosslinked nylons have higher heat resistance than their standard counterparts, along with better physical properties and abrasion resistance. Adapted from a paper presented at SPE ANTEC 2012.

Building a new plant in 2003 gave Lyle Schut a clean slate.