One of the first applications for blow molded HDPE bottles was the replacement of glass for bleach packaging. A standing joke among the bottlers was that their bottles only cracked in the summertime, ...
Two injection molders of very different kinds of parts recently faced production problems related to inefficient conveying systems. Both found solutions through customized conveying systems with speci...
Rapid manufacturing technologies tend to be focused primarily on making prototype and sometimes production parts. But Linear mold and Engineering in Livonia, Mich., is one of the first firms in this c...
China’s export growth held up in July but it is likely to slow as the year unfolds, as demand from the US and Europe eases, Standard Chartered said. The General Administration of Customs announc...
Business conditions are tough this year for most any industry segment that has the word “house” as part of its name. But so far, molded housewares are holding up better than most. Our Hous...
The athletes in Beijing aren’t the only ones taking record leaps this summer. PVC producers asked for a startling 8¢/lb increase; PS prices ticked upward at two-week intervals; PP soared by...
Part II of our review of the big JEC international composites show in Paris focuses on resins and reinforcements. (Part I, last month, covered process enhancements, thermoplastic composites, machinery...
Software suppliers agree that 3D simulation of injection mold filling, packing, cooling, shrinkage, and warpage is fairly mature. Their latest releases focus on bringing new or enhanced capabilities t...
How important is mold maintenance and repair to the mold manufacturer? Very. Because it always comes back to the moldmaker. Besides being a highly visited topic area on www.moldmaking technologymold.w...
Account managing is the fine art of balancing the needs and expectations of your customer with the skills of your company personnel. This all comes to a head when we put a cost to the services our cus...
1. Second larger, five-axis, high-speed machine for hard milling. 2. Large bullard horizontal lathe (for the oil rig business, aerospace and round parts in molds). 3. Flow analysis software. 4. Latest...
When you’re in Beijing and do what the Beijing people do, there is no other place to do that better than in Qianmen. As the literal translation of the name, ‘Front gate’, sugge...
Europe’s largest engineering company Siemens said its environmental portfolio would generate order intake of 4 billion euros in China in 2010. This equates to 40 percent of the company’s t...
LMT—the Leitz Metalworking Technology Group—has opened a new innovation and training centre at the plant of its Fette subsidiary in Schwarzenbek, Germany. The new facility offers users of ...
Infotech Enterprises Ltd. (IEL), a technology solutions provider with global headquarters in Hyderabad, India, and Dassault Aviation, a major player in civil and military aviation, have signed a memor...
mold-Masters held its 2nd Technology Forum recently in Kulmbach, Germany. More than 70 people interested in multicomponent moulding applications participated. The venue had been booked out far in adva...
The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) is organizing the European Medical Polymers Conference 2008 for presentation at Queen’s University Belfast in the capital city of Northern Ireland, UK, on...
EuroMold 2008, to be held December 3–6 in Frankfurt, will bring together professionals from the areas of design, mould making and tooling, and machine tools, as well as suppliers and manufacture...
While the financial and construction sectors of the British economy continue to face difficulties, a recent seminar highlighting modern methods in aerospace manufacturing made the case that the manufa...
University of Glasgow mechanical engineering students will soon hone their 3D CAD skills by using SolidWorks® Education Edition software to design everything from race cars to bridges as they prep...