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2019-11-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Molded Housewares Are Down, But Not By Much

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...

2019-11-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Price Hikes Hit Scary Levels

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...

2019-11-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Higher Properties, Lower Cost

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...

2019-11-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New Frontiers in Process Prediction

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...

2019-11-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Always Comes Back to the Mold Builder

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...

2019-11-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Everyone Is Welcome

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...

2019-11-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Top 10 Technologies on Your Shop’s Wish List

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...

2019-11-11 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Qianmen opens the gate to foreigners

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...

2019-11-11 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Siemens steps up green goal

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...

2019-11-11 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on LMT Opens Innovation and Training Centre

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 ...

2019-11-10 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Infotech, Dassault Aviation Sign Agreement

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...

2019-11-10 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Mold-Masters Tech Forum Draws 70-Plus

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...

2019-11-10 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on SPE Sets First Conference on Medical Polymers

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...

2019-11-10 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on EuroMold 2008 Aims to Help SMEs

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...

2019-11-09 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Mazak Hosts UK Aerospace Tech Seminar

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...

2019-11-09 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on University Buys 200 SolidWorks Licenses

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...

2019-11-09 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Mold Market Activity Levels Decline, 42.7 Total Mold Business Index for June 2008

The total mold Business Index is a weighted average of the sub-indices for new orders, production, employees, backlog, exports and supplier deliveries. Many manufacturing sectors experience a seasonal...

2019-11-08 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on The Seven Ds of a Buy-Sell Agreement

My client handed me his 13-year old buy-sell agreement. The business value, specified as a fixed amount, was about 3 percent of the current market value. Any problems here? First, the value is not cur...

2019-11-08 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New RP Technology Reduces Costs, Leadtimes

A rapid tooling process has been developed using stereolithography (SL) and a nanocomposite resin, which can result in significant savings in both leadtimes and costs. The process can be used to make ...

2019-11-08 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on How Online Communities Can Help Your Business, Part 3

In this final installment of this three-part column, let’s look at how online communities (OCs) can have a positive impact on—and support—your business’ strategic development a...