Die Cast Dies: The Benefits of a Proactive Tool Build The advantages of the two basic styles of vacuum approaches: valve and valve-less. By Rick Dubay, Larry Winkler and Glenn Starkey With the advent ...
In-mold Labeling Looks to High-Output Molds for Growth Moldmakers seek to combine ultrafast cycles and high-speed automation in tool designs. By Patrick A. Toensmeier In-mold labeling of injection mol...
Defining the Standard mold Base When buying a standard mold base there should be expectations regarding quality, price and delivery. By Erich Dyer What is a standard mold base? This seems like an easy...
Injection molder VS raises investment in Vietnam plant By Steve Toloken PLASTICS NEWS CORRESPONDENT JOHOR, MALAYSIA (May 1, 2007) — Pushed by increasing interest in Vietnam as a manufactu...
A primer on coinjection molding By Jack Avery Avery Plastics Consulting Coinjection molding (also know as sandwich molding) is a sequential process in which two materials, a skin and a core, ar...
Mannesmann Plastics Machinery reorganizing businesses By Bill Bregar PLASTICS NEWS STAFF MUNICH, GERMANY (March 20, 2007) — Mannesmann Plastics Machinery GmbH is restructuring its global-...
Cosmetics packaging molder Risdon seeks plant in China By Angie DeRosa PLASTICS NEWS STAFF SHANGHAI (February 13, 2007) — Risdon International Inc., a molder of products for the cosmetics...
China Machine Tool Industry Faced New Opportunity Time:2007-3-6 There was a series of bad news about world machine tool industry in 2004. At the beginning, two famous Germanic enterp...
SMS sells extrusion machinery businesses DÜSSELDORF, GERMANY (March 13, 2007) — SMS GmbH, which last fall sold its Battenfeld injection press operations, announced March 7 that it ha...
Hong Kong´s Akei eyeing Seattle for facility By Angie DeRosa PLASTICS NEWS STAFF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (July 4, 2006) — Akei Plastic-Machine Mfy. Ltd. plans to have a parts and service ...
Incoe´s new Shanghai plant now in full production By Katherine Peavy PLASTICS NEWS CORRESPONDENT a recent interview with Incoe VP John Blundy about this China expansion SHANGHAI (April 17,...
Heise Industries to build blow mold factory in Vietnam By Bill Bregar PLASTICS NEWS STAFF BINH, VIETNAM (February 6, 2007) — Connecticut-based Heise Industries Inc., one of the largest ma...
Introduction The Mainland’s fast growing automotive market presents immense opportunities for Hong Kong’s automotive components industry in more ways than one. Firstly, the Mainland Govern...