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New Blow Molding Service Offerings from W. Müller

Several new aftermarket service packages are launched by W. Müller for extrusion blow molders.

How Was K 2022 for Blow Molding?

Over a dozen companies emphasized sustainability with use of foam and recycle, lightweighting and energy savings, along with new capabilities in controls, automation and quick changeovers.

As Currier Grows in Medical Consumables, Blow Molding Is Its ‘Foot in the Door’

Currier Plastics has added substantial capacity recently in both injection and blow molding for medical/pharmaceutical products, including several machines to occupy a new, large clean room.

Old Fishing Nets to Child’s Watering Can: Blow Molding rPE at K Show

High-quality marine recyclate is suited to continuous-extrusion blow molding without an accumulator head.

Engel to Showcase Sustainability at K 2022

At the world’s premier plastics fair, Engel will emphasize sustainable processing assisted by digitalization.

Kautex Americas Relocates, Expands Activities in Mexico & Latin America

Kautex Americas moves to offices and warehouse in Flemington, N.J. Kautex Machines Mexico takes on all of Latin America.

New Name, Products, Technology— But Same Service Philosophy

Schoeneck Containers is now Radius Packaging, but customer needs are still the focal center of this blow molder’s business. Those customers will benefit from the company’s push toward automation, sustainability, and new products in injection molding and stretch-blown PET.

Arburg Showcases Partnership Aimed at Simplifying End-of-Life Recycling

To be presented at VDI’s international congress for plastics in automotive, Arburg will discuss its collaboration with Reifenhäuser’s R-Cycle Project.

Rethinking Blow Molding Machines For Maximum Flexibility & Value

Kautex is redesigning its packaging machines with a modular concept to offer blow molders the widest range of choice in drive systems and cost-effectiveness.

Simulation on ‘Virtual Twin’ Machine Speeds Cycle Optimization on Plant Floor

Kautex demonstrates that simulating a change in control program on a machine’s “virtual twin” greatly compresses the time to commission the new program on a real blow molding machine.

20 Good Things to Come Out of 2020—Part 4

Good news was there if you knew where to look for it—in the pages of Plastics Technology magazine or right here on our website. Here’s a review of headlines you can feel good about.

Digital Watermarking Consortium Advances Technology for Sorting & Recycling Plastics

Europe’s Digital Watermarks Initiative HolyGrail 2.0 gains new members and advances to Phase II pilot projects.

320 L Hydrogen Tank Liner Blow Molded in Nylon

Large liners for hydrogen composite pressure vessels are a challenge to blow mold. Kautex found a material and a technique to achieve a world “first.”

Kautex Shifts Focus from Automotive to Packaging and Use of Recycled Plastics

Global slump in automotive blow molding investment convinces Kautex that its future is in sustainable packaging.

Blow Molding: Something for Everyone at K Show

Packaging, industrial, continuous-extrusion, accumulator-head, injection-blow, stretch-blow, EPET, foam, sandwich co-injection—the blow molding news was wide ranging at K 2019.

K 2019 Preview: Blow Molding Exhibits Focus on Recycling & PET

Spotty information from blow molding machinery exhibitors indicates that the “Circular Economy” will be a recurrent theme and that PET processing will predominate.

Braskem, Kautex, Erema Partner to Showcase Circular Economy in Action at K2019

Live demos include the production of three-layer HDPE bottles with a foamed middle layer, made with bioplastics and PCR, as well as recycling the bottles on-site during K.

Lanxess Intensifies Blow Molding Support

A new development team, a new suction blow molder, and process simulation capability add to Lanxess’ new emphasis on blow molded nylon in automotive fueltrain applications.

Blow Molding: New Six-Layer Coex Head for Packaging

Kautex returns to in-house production of six-layer blow molding heads for packaging.

Why Blow Molders Are Switching to EPET

High clarity, easy incorporation of handles, and recycling resin code No. 1 are the principal drivers for converting to EPET resins for extrusion blow molding.

NPE Wrap-Up: News in Primary Machinery, Part 1

Rounding up details from the Big Show not previously reported in all our other coverage, here’s more news in injection and blow molding, extrusion and compounding. Next month, we’ll conclude with recycling/scrap reclaim, robots, tooling, auxiliary equipment, materials and additives.

NPE2018 New Technology Focus: All-Electrics Multiply in Blow Molding

All-electric shuttles and injection-blow machines continue to proliferate.

Kautex Opens Processing Lab in N.J., Shows Off Enhanced Machines

In September, Kautex Machines Inc. held an open house in North Branch, N.J., to show off its new processing lab.

10 Keys to the Future of Blow Molding

From customer support and training to process simulation and impact of Industry 4.0—a blow molding machine supplier offers its take on where blow molding is headed.

Plastics Personnel Moves: OCTEX, SPE, PLASTICS, battenfeld-cincinnati, and Engel

New president at OCTEX; new CEO at SPE; new chief economist at PLASTICS; recognition for employee at Engel and more.

High-Tech Blow Molding At Agri-Industrial Plastics

This family-owned custom molder stands out in its use of advanced computer and automation tools to claim a niche in large, complex, and multi-layer parts.

Blow Molding: New Machines Take on Challenging Shapes

From very small to very large, from hotel amenity bottles to automotive jounce bumpers, new and upgraded machines tackle difficult jobs while improving productivity, quality, and energy efficiency.

What Blow Molders Say About All-Electric Machines

They are well established in Europe, but molders in North America are just beginning to come around to all-electrics’ improved performance, maintenance, cleanliness, and—yes— energy efficiency. Here’s first-hand testimony, from the U.S. and abroad.

K 2016 Preview: Blow Molding

Looking for speed and energy efficiency? Take your pick of new all-electric, hybrid, and servo-hydraulic machines.

Blow Mold 10,000-Liter Tanks?

Mammoth machine has a 660-ton clamp and 726-lb accumulator head.

At NPE: Blow Mold 10,000-Liter Tanks

Need a shot weighing 726 lb?

BLOW MOLDING AT NPE: Energy Savings, Lightweighting & Flexibility

New machines are mostly all-electric, hybrid, or servo-hydraulic.

How Currier Puts the ‘Custom’ In Custom Blow Molding

The three key ingredients are responsiveness, full-service product development, and control over both the bottle and the cap.

Blow Molding News at K 2013

All-electric machines of all types were the stars of the show, but there were a number of other noteworthy developments.

K 2013 Preview: Blow Molding

Of the six machine builders who were willing to pull back the curtain even a little, five of them said they’d be showcasing all-electric presses. That remarkable fact suggests that all-electric technology, which has been a much harder sell in blow molding than in injection molding, is at last starting to find traction.

Blow Molding at NPE: Pushing the Envelope in Speed, Flexibility, Energy Savings

New models of blow molding machines at the show were dominated by wheel machines and stretch-blow systems.

All-Electric Blow Molding Is Reaching the Tipping Point

After years of talk, all-electric blow molding machines seem poised to make advances.

BLOW MOLDING: Electric Machines Starting to Purr

Growing use of electric drives in blow molding machinery gathered steam at the K 2010 show, as suppliers rolled out new all-electric and hybrid models for extrusion blow, injection-blow, and stretch-blow production.

All-Electric Blow Molding Still in Its Infancy in U.S.

Already a familiar sight on European store shelves, the eye-catching appeal of "IML" is gaining traction among North American injection molders. The latest tooling and automation designs can handle the higher volumes needed here.

NPE 2009 Wrap-Up: New Machinery for Blow Molding

Several new developments include a brand-new compression blow process, the first foamed PET bottles, and a preform decontamination approach for aseptically filled products sold at ambient temperature. Attendees also saw a new stack-mold Multi-Parting Line concept that doubles bottle output within the same machine footprint. (Additional NPE blow molding news appeared in May and June—see Learn More box.)

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