Automation
Automation, Old-Fashioned Values Help Sustain Molder’s Success
This 55-year-old, family-owned and operated custom injection molding company continues to thrive by practicing a value that’s gained widespread popularity lately: “sustainability.”
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THERMOFORMING: New Roll-Fed Systems Boost Output & Flexibility
Continuous in-line packaging systems headed up the K 2010 thermoforming news as suppliers launched a range of roll-fed systems with greater capacity, more flexibility, and improved automation.
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INJECTION MOLDING: Automation and Integration At K Show
There were new presses of all stripes aplenty at K 2010, but the “wow” factor was supplied by automated work cells and integrated manu-facturing systems performing multiple operations before, during, and after molding.
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K 2010- Injection Molding New All-Electrics & Hybrids Balance Performance & Economy
The world’s largest plastics show, coming up next month in Dusseldorf, Germany, provides ample evidence of the growing sway of electric drive technology in injection molding.
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New Presses, Robots & Process Tech To Debut at K 2010 Fair
The exhibit of Engel Austria at October’s K 2010 fair in Dusseldorf, Germany, will host a wide range of product introductions, ranging from new machines for caps/closures and micromolding to a new model of small electric press, a new generation of beam robots, and developing process technologies for polyurethane skin coating, machine-integrated mold-temperature control, multi-shot optical molding, and all-plastic “hybrid” composites.
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Injection Molding at NPE 2003
Show goers will see an electric injection machine in nearly every press maker’s booth this year, and electric/hydraulic hybrids in several.
Read MoreYour Business in Brief - June 2002
Wittmann BuysCapitol TemptrolWittmann Robot & Automation Systems, Inc., Torrington, Conn., has acquired Capitol Temptrol Inc. of Centerbrook, Conn., a maker of portable and central chillers and mold-temperature controllers.
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EPS Bead Molders Turn To Automation
Plantwide automation in EPS molding started among European block molders, who created ‘ghost’ plants with only a handful of workers where dozens had been employed before. Now, ‘hands-off’ automation has reached the U.S. and is making inroads in shape molding, too.
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Refine, Redesign, Retool: Re-engineering as a Business Model
It’s an unusual business model: “We take existing products or manufacturing processes and try to make them better.
Read MoreYour Business In Brief - January 2000
Yushin Opens Midwest Robot Technical CenterInjection molding robot supplier Yushin America, Inc., Cranston, R.I., has opened a technical center in Indianapolis.
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