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Moldmaking in Mexico: A New Frontier
Advancing beyond repairs and maintenance, there is a growing Mexican moldmaking segment, giving local supply and support to the country’s burgeoning automotive sector, among others.
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Molder Makes Coffee Pods From Compostable Resin
Fourmark developed the expertise to mold plant-based resin into the main component of the capsules.
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Recycling Breathes New Life into Textile Leader
Fiber producer Unifi reinvents itself as a plastics recycler that turns PET bottles into recycled fibers.
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Meet the New Force in Color Concentrate Production
The new Chroma Color Corp. unites the production and technical expertise of four different firms to better serve the needs of a consolidating processor market.
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‘Intelligent’ Cooling Helps Molder Improve Productivity, Profitability & Quality
Cost-effective and user-friendly process-cooling system gives custom molder the ability to do more with less.
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Inline Inkjet Printer Keeps Pace With Speedy Wire & Cable Processor
Huber+Suhner is outfitting its six high-speed extrusion lines with new high-speed, continuous inkjet printers.
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Rapid Heat & Cool Molding Evolves to Meet Industry Challenges
Technical capabilities of the process have advanced to erase former cycle-time penalties, and ongoing developments address creation of a materials database and new applications in hybrid composite injection overmolding.
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New System Runs Two Molds in One Press Simultaneously
Shuttle-mold system is one of several eye-popping innovations that Canon Virginia brought to NPE2018.
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Newly Merged Molder Beefs Up EMI-RFI Shielding Operations
PSI Molded Plastics’ mechanized copper-paint line can handle large parts.
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New Screen Changer Boosts Productivity, Cuts Scrap for Extruder of PET Strapping
Cyklop’s move to a new-model, high-efficiency screen changer reduces number of screen changes and backflush waste while yielding uniform melt flow and high throughputs.
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