Injection Molding
Addifab and Nexa3D Partner for Larger, Faster 3D Printed Tooling
The companies say this collaboration will allow five times larger build plans, up to 20 times faster printing and much lower initial investment costs.
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Flow Filters Keep Contamination Out of the Melt
EDRO Specialty Steels and voestalpine introduced the Flow Filter X and Flow Filter V filters to minimize the risk of blockages or interruptions to the injection process.
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‘Learn to Embrace Variability’
Wait. What? Variability in raw materials is supposed to be the last thing anyone would want to ‘embrace.’ But if you substitute ‘circular economy’ for ‘variability’ and ‘manage with technology’ for ‘embrace’—then the mystery starts to clear.
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Westec Plastics Adds Three Two-Shot Injection Molding Machines
The Livermore, Calif. custom molder has added three multimaterial Arburg injection molding machines as part of a $3 million investment in its facility and capital equipment.
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Cloud-Based Real-Time Injection Mold Monitoring System
Mold-Masters SmartMOLD combines inmold sensors with cloud-based software to provide real-time process data, maintenance tracking, document storage, reporting, alerts and more.
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Beacon MedTech Solutions Increases Injection Molding Capacity
The company’s Leominster, Mass. facility has recently installed two new Sumitomo (SHI) Demag machines with plans to add an undisclosed number more in the first half of 2022.
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Can Coinjection Help Solve the Coming Recycled Content Conundrum?
As companies push toward self-imposed recycled content requirements or are compelled to do so by governments, Mold-Masters positions its coinjection technology as a solution.
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Electric Valve-Gate Technology Debuts
Synventive will use PTXPO to debut its eGate sync hot runner technology to the North American market after its global debut at last year’s Fakuma.
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Molded, Hybrid Composite Creates Tough Truck-Mounted Toolbox
SABIC long-glass-fiber polypropylene (PP) overmolded onto continuous-glass-fiber-composite laminate inserts resulted in a plastic toolbox for Dongfeng Motors that is 30% lighter than a steel counterpart.
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Micro Mirrors Make for Special Molded Effects
Originally invented for use in currency, a new, patented optical security technology allows anti-counterfeiting design effects to be incorporated directly into injection-molded products and packaging.
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