Plastic Injection Guide

2019-08-30 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on UK Trade Minister to Open Interplas/PPMA

Lord Digby Jones of Birmingham will officially open both the PPMA Show and Interplas 2008 on September 30. The dignitary serves the United Kingdom as minister of state for trade and investment. Interp...

2019-08-29 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Mazak Wins Award—or Two—at MACH 2008

Yamazaki Mazak U.K. Ltd. and its customer Components Worldwide both came away from MACH 2008 with success in the Metalworking Production (MWP) Awards competition. Mazak won the award for Best Metal Cu...

2019-08-29 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on EuroMold Pavilion at RosMould Is Full

Two months before the start of RosMould 2008, the EuroMold Pavilion that will be a feature of the Moscow exhibition has been fully booked. DEMAT GmbH first organized a EuroMold Pavilion at RosMould in...

2019-08-29 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New Thermal and Valve-Gate Nozzles and Controller

A thermal-gate nozzle that’s the smallest in a line designed for hot-half applications, a valve-gate style for single-nozzle applications, and a multi-zone hot-runner temperature controller are ...

2019-08-29 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Dynamic Optimization of Extruder Barrel Temperatures

Determining the optimum barrel-temperature profile is one of the most important tasks in extrusion. A barrel-temperature profile (BTP) that works well on one extruder may not work on the same type of ...

2019-08-28 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Compounders Molders Get Control Of Their Materials

The combination of an injection molding press and a twin-screw compounding extruder represents a new paradigm for processors: They create their own materials as they mold them. Although the machinery ...

2019-08-28 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on High temp materials benefit heavy duty

Designed to be self-lubricating at high temperatures, the Metcar grades M-199 and M-201 carbon/graphite copper impregnated materials operate without lubricants. Metallized Carbon Corporation (MCC) has...

2019-08-28 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Machine tools go on show worldwide

In addition to general and specialised manufacturing shows in Europe, there are two major international machine tool related events this year, writes Mike Page. After the 2007 Hannover EMO internation...

2019-08-27 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Lean Manufacturing Trims Leadtimes

Moldmakers aren’t the only ones reducing leadtimes. Component and hot runner suppliers are delivering their equipment and supplies faster to accommodate industry demand. Over the last decade, as...

2019-08-27 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on How to Design High Cavitation Tooling

Today’s sophisticated dispensing closure tooling represents a significant capital investment and requires skillful selection of a mold supplier. This tooling is highly complex and requires a hig...

2019-08-27 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on mold Gains Great Success In DIE & MOULD 2008

Die & Mould 2008 was held in Shanghai on 12th, May. Imould, as one of the exhibitors, worked hard to deliver mould industry information of China to thousands of customers on the fair. Local mould ...

2019-08-26 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Toolmakers Benefit from Growing Demand for Thermoformed Parts

The need for innovative mold design accelerates as auto OEMs specify larger and more complex parts. The automotive market offers sizeable opportunities for thermoformed parts, and by extension thermof...

2019-08-26 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Delcam Hails 2008 MACH as Its Best Ever

Calling MACH 2008, held in Birmingham in April, the “best MACH ever” for his company, Delcam plc, UK Sales Manager Mark Corrigan reports that this year’s event generated more inquiri...

2019-08-26 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on German Machine Tool Orders Rise

The high-flying German machine tool construction industry continued to soar into 2008, according to the VDW (the German Machine Tool Builders’ Association), which released relevant statistics. I...

2019-08-25 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Vision Sensors in Spotlight at Vision 2008

According to a current industry survey carried out by the VDMA (German Engineering Federation) Machine Vision Group, sales of the vision sensors used in machine vision systems increased by 157% from 2...

2019-08-25 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New COSMOS Team at SolidWorks

SolidWorks has introduced its new team for its COSMOS® analysis software: Larry Terwey and Jürgen Haberger will push COSMOS sales in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Eastern Europe. In thei...

2019-08-25 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on CGTech Wins Software Award for Vericut 6

Vericut 6 CNC simulation and verification software, the latest release from CGTech Ltd., has won the MWP 2008 Best Software Award. The presentation of this year’s prestigious Metalworking Produc...

2019-08-24 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Three Bottlenecks That Restrain the Development of Wenzhou Mould by Professors

“to seek mould development of Wenzhou, we should make break out in human resource, funds and land.” Responsible worker have known this clearly. He told reporters that the most serious prob...

2019-08-24 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Staying Competitive Using Mold Flow Analysis

The pressure on the supply chain is unrelenting for all things faster, better and cheaper. For moldmakers, getting molds built right the first time is critical to meeting these increasing demands. But...

2019-08-24 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on How to Evaluate Hot Runner Nozzless

The way to choose the right hot runner nozzle is to evaluate the entire molding system first. How do you go about evaluating hot runner nozzles? First, evaluate the entire molding system—includi...