Plastic Injection Guide

2019-11-07 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on High-Precision Molds Pay Off for P&G

Procter & Gamble stresses speed, repeatability and long life to maximize return in commodity production. High-tech mold design and consumer products might not seem like an obvious fit, but the com...

2019-11-07 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Determining Maximum Mold Cycle Counts

Ongoing data collection and visual inspection of tooling and parts is the only method that will allow you to balance maximizing tooling life, production capability and mold reliability. The first prod...

2019-11-07 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on The Custom Manufacturing Megatrend: A New Industrial Revolution

New methods of manufacturing are bringing about fundamental change in the way products are designed and delivered. With advances in additive fabrication (AF), it is now possible to conceive a product ...

2019-11-07 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Moldmaker Uses an In-Depth Analytical Solution-Based Approach To Mold Flow Analysis

MoldFlow consulting firm assists mold shop as it approached a complex molding program for its customer, Cessna Aircraft Company. CAE Services Corporation is a silver-certified Moldflow consulting firm...

2019-11-06 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Multi-Cavity Mold Issues Solved with Melt Rotation Process

Toolroom supervisor shares his experience with a rheological control solution to some obvious and some not-so-obvious challenges with product and color variations in a multi-cavity mold. At first glan...

2019-11-06 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Automation, Innovation Chart EDM’s Course

Advances in EDM technology—including increased automation and combining machining processes to get the job done as efficiently as possible—help EDM stay afloat and keep moldmakers successf...

2019-11-06 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Machining Madness

The industry’s demand for higher quality, faster turnaround times and lower prices in the last decade has resulted in dramatic improvements in high speed machining as well as controls and spindl...

2019-11-05 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Build-Ups for Maintenance: Benefit or Band-Aid?

When is providing build-ups on tooling appropriate and when is it just a band-aid on a problem that could lead to more extensive repairs later? One maintenance issue that often creeps up is the reques...

2019-11-05 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on A Workholding Solution for Gun Drilling

Gun drilling is one area for which moldmakers have been slow to accept permanent electro magnets, which can reduce workholding and toolholding setups by 50 to 70 percent. Gun drilling is an integral p...

2019-11-05 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Hot Runner Stack Molds: A Great Cost-Cutting Solution

How to choose the right manifold system for your stack molds. During the concept phase of a new project the option of selecting a stack mold is often overlooked because many mold designers are unfamil...

2019-11-04 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Electrically Actuated Valve Gates: An Emerging Hot Runner Technology

Electrically actuated valve stems promise more control, cleaner actuation, closer pitch spacing, higher quality gates and reduced maintenance. A new technology for actuating stems in valve gated hot r...

2019-11-04 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on China’s futures trading volume up 76 percent in July

China’s futures market witnessed a rapid growth in trade volume in July, led by an active trade in farm products such as sugar, soybeans, and aluminum. Trade volume hit 6.45 trillion yuan (948 b...

2019-11-04 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on It’s All Relative …

If you travel to Europe anytime soon, try not to gulp too hard when you look at the prices on a restaurant menu or in a shop-window display. If you want to get a sense of relative value, just close yo...

2019-11-04 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Blow Molders & Thermoformers Try Plastic Rapid Tooling

Rapid prototyping (RP) equipment is increasingly being used to manufacture prototype and short-run production molds for blow molded and thermoformed parts. A range of RP processes including fused-depo...

2019-11-03 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New Low-Pressure Process Molds Long Profiles On Small Presses

A new process that can produce long, thin-walled profiles and strips with functional or decorative geometries integrated in the part in a single step was developed by IB Steiner engineering consultant...

2019-11-03 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Euro PM2008 to Offer Focused Workshops

Delegates attending this year’s Euro PM Congress & Exhibition, Euro PM2008, which takes place September 29 through October 1 at the Rosengarten Congress Centre in Mannheim, Germany, will be ...

2019-11-03 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Eighth Mec-Spe Coming to Parma in March

Because the mechanical technology sector is still one of the brightest spots in Italian industry, Senaf S.r.l. is looking forward to organizing the next edition of Mec-Spe, the international exhibitio...

2019-11-02 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Dijet Europe Distribution Centre Expands

A leading supplier of cutting tools to the worldwide mould and die making industry, Dijet Industrial Co. Ltd. of Osaka, Japan, has extended the capacity of its European distribution centre in Welwyn G...

2019-11-02 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on METAV to Be First Industry Event of 2010

The next METAV international fair for manufacturing and automation is scheduled to be held February 23–27, 2010, in Düsseldorf. In opting for these dates for METAV 2010, the German Machine ...

2019-11-02 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Asiamold Prepares for Increased Numbers

Asiamold, the International Trade Fair for Moldmaking and Tooling, Design and Application Development, will open its gates for the second time this September 24. Running from the 24th through the 26th...