Plastic Injection Guide

2019-11-20 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New Polycarbonate for High-Brightness LEDs

A new polycarbonate from Bayer MaterialScience, Pittsburgh, is designed for high-brightness LEDs. Makrolon LED2245 offers high light transmittance, low haze, improved heat resistance, and good toughne...

2019-11-20 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Low-VOC Vinyls Target Furniture

New flexible PVC compounds from Teknor Apex Co., Pawtucket, R.I., are said to emit 80% fewer volatile organic compounds than standard vinyls. The low-VOC grades are for profiles, molded items, extrusi...

2019-11-19 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on PET for Thick-Wall Bottles Has Glass-Like Clarity

A new PET resin is designed to provide very high clarity and a wide processing window for molding thick-walled bottles and containers of unconventional sizes and shapes. Polyclear Crystal PET 3302 fro...

2019-11-19 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on PC Sheet For Aircraft Interiors

Kleerdex Co., Bloomburg, Pa., has introduced its first thermoformable polycarbonate sheet for aircraft interiors. Kydex FST sheet is made from Lexan FST9705 PC resin from SABIC Innovative Plastics, Pi...

2019-11-19 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on High-Efficiency Barrel Heating And Cooling

The Servtek TCS (Thermal Control Solution) radiant barrel heating/cooling system, developed by Rex Materials Group, Fowlerville, Mich., and distributed exclusively for plastics by Cincinnati Milacron ...

2019-11-19 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Tiny, Low-Priced Camera For Web Inspection

A tiny new line-scan camera for non-patterned web inspection requires a fraction of the space and cost of most web-inspection cameras. Web-i from Webview Inc., Santa Rosa, Calif., measures only 3.8 x ...

2019-11-18 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Pipe Die Has Internal Air-Cooling

The new Maxflexx pipe die from Inoex GmbH in Germany (U.S. office in Lancaster, Pa.) cools a pipe with internal air cooling. According to the patent application (U.S. 20080131542, June 5, 2008) there ...

2019-11-18 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on China’s steel export spike may benefit Hyundai Steel

China’s record level of steel exports in July could actually be a positive catalyst for stocks such as Hyundai Steel, which would benefit from potential increased China export taxes, CLSA said. ...

2019-11-18 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Carrefour’s expansion in China

When Carrefour entered the Chinese market in 1995, the French supermarket chain chose to do it quietly, kind of like testing the water rather than making a splash. There was no marching band or lion d...

2019-11-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Brazil seeks more trade with China

Brazil will double its trade with China in the next five years, Alessandro Teixeira, president of the Brazil Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil), said in Beijing Monday. &quo...

2019-11-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Leading fair set for Shanghai launch in Sept

The third wire & Tube China 2008 trade fair will be held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center from September 23 to 26. The leading industrial event is made up of two fairs – the All...

2019-11-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Rebate offers short-term boost

Major Chinese textile companies have said that the recent adjustment in tax rebates will lead to increased profits in the short term, but the long-term impact would be limited. Jiangsu Sainty Corp Ltd...

2019-11-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Higher Speeds for Double-Shot Machines

Cycle-time reductions from faster clamp movements and mold-plate rotation, as well as improved cooling, are claimed for two new models in the SEHS-CI all-electric double shot line from Sumitomo Heavy ...

2019-11-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New Gas-Assist Components

A new line of separate pressure generators, high-pressure compressors, and gas controllers, which can be combined into a system that grows as the customer’s business expands, comes from Gain Tec...

2019-11-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on High-Speed, Two-Stage Press For Precision Thin-Wall Parts

A new machine capable of injection speeds of 1500 mm/sec or 60 in./sec expands the V-line of two-stage plunger injection presses from Sodick Plustech Co. of Japan, represented here by Plustech Inc., S...

2019-11-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Hot-Runner Mold Inserts Offer Cooling Enhancement

Improved cavity filling and cooling are the aims of a new line of inserts for hot runners that are made by “selected laser melting” (SLM) of H-13 steel powders. Developed by HRSFlow HotRun...

2019-11-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Get a Handle on Stress-Cracking In HDPE Bottles

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, ...

2019-11-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Custom Conveying Systems Pay Big Returns for Molders

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...

2019-11-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Rapid Tooling Grows Profits At Linear Mold

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...

2019-11-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on China July export growth ahead of forecasts, seen slower later in yr – StanChart

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...