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Additives: New Color Effects for PET Packaging
Penn Color has developed some unique color packages in collaboration with Husky and PET Engineering.
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NPE2018 New Technology Focus: Additives
The broad range of new additives includes modifiers, silicone additives for various polyolefins, compatibilizers PET and PLA, a blowing agent reinforced nylons, flame-retardant synergists for wire & cable, unique colorants, and color-tracking software for liquid-color metering devices.
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New Mold Monitoring System Promises Fast Processing Speeds and High Resolution
The full-color, high-resolution digital image processing technology serves to protect complex, expensive injection molds running sub 2-second cycles.
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Changing the Game in Liquid Color
Riverdale Global’s ‘Computerized Color’ technology and service offerings continue to evolve.
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Two-Color LSR Molding Fine-Tuned with Flow Simulation
“Virtual Molding” simulation can model all aspects of LSR molding, even with two colors.
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One-Step Color Masterbatch Production
KraussMaffei Berstorff Liquid Color Compounding Technology allows masterbatches to be run without the need for ‘mono-concentrate’ production steps.
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‘Mini’ Accumulator-Head Machine Comes to NPE
Small industrial blow molder with rapid color and material change.
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The 3-to-7-Minute Color Change—Step 3: Color Planning
It is important to understand what to expect when changing from one color to another; here’s a method to analyze what steps must be taken from a cleaning standpoint.
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The 3-to-7-Minute Color Change—Step 2: Preparation & Equipment
Hopper and screw and barrel considerations come into play as do strategies: press-side loading, satellite hoppers or a combination of both?
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Quick Changeover: The 3-to-7-Minute Color Change
Step 1: Assessment—These questions must be asked during the development of fast changeover procedures.
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