Plastic Injection Guide

2019-06-08 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Thermoforming

Thermoforming involves the controlled heating of a thermoplastic material to a temperature where its shape may be altered to the shape of the mold. The physical change to the preheated thermoplastic i...

2019-06-07 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on injection molding

Injection molding is a versatile process for forming thermoplastic and thermoset materials into molded products of intricate shapes, at high production rates and with good dimensional accuracy. The pr...

2019-06-07 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Blow Molding

The Basic Process  1  A thermoplastic resin is heated to a molten state 2  It is then extruded through a die head to form a hollow tube called a parison. 3  The parison is dropped ...

2019-06-07 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Blow Molding

  Blow Molding is a highly developed molding technology developed back in the late 1800’s to produce celluloid baby rattles. It is best suited for basically hollow parts (such as plastic bo...

2019-06-06 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Government steps in to keep Battenfeld going

Lower Austrian government drums up Euro15m support. In a statement issued yesterday, the regional government of Lower Austria said it will provide support to ensure continuation of the Battenfeld inje...

2019-06-06 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on La Seda de Barcelona buys Interquisa

Spanish group grows further with first entry into North America. Growing Spanish PET group La Seda de Barcelona (LSB) has acquired chemical group Intercontinental Quimica (Interquisa), giving it an en...

2019-06-06 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Boston Matthews subsidiary bought by mystery buyer

Unpaid Global EPP bill forced firm into administration. BM Plastics Machinery in Worcester has been snapped up by a mystery buyer after it went into administration following the collapse of its major ...

2019-06-05 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Husky moves to smaller building in the UK

Sales and service becomes focus of UK operation. The UK operation of Husky Injection Molding Systems has relocated to a new service and sales office in Enderby, Leicester, following the closure of its...

2019-06-05 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Australian plastic bag ban

Minister wants phasing out to start by end of the year.    Australia has said it wants to phase out the use of plastic bags following the announcement of a similar move by China earlier this...

2019-06-05 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Surging Demand for Composites Creates Opportunities for Moldmakers

Metal fabrication skills meet needs of composites manufacturing in a range of high-tech operations. Business is booming in aerospace and defense, fueled by record demand for aircraft and by advances i...

2019-06-04 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Gibbs to Be Merged into Cimatron

Cimatron Ltd., a leading provider of integrated CAD/CAM solutions for the toolmaking and manufacturing industries, and Gibbs and Associates, which develops GibbsCAM® software for programming cnc m...

2019-06-04 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Interplas Expects Strong Overseas Presence

There will a strong international representation at Interplas 2008, the UK’s leading plastics and rubber exhibition, according to the organizer, Reed Exhibitions. Reed says that the level of int...

2019-06-04 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on San Diego to Host SolidWorks World 2008

What SolidWorks calls the largest annual worldwide 3D CAD event will be larger than ever when SolidWorks World 2008 convenes January 20–23 in San Diego, California, as the 10th-anniversary editi...

2019-06-03 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on BBG Wins EuroMold Award

The Mindelheim, Germany–based company BBG GmbH & Co. KG enjoyed particular success at EuroMold 2007 in December by winning the silver EuroMold Award for its PV-Therm 160 combination photovol...

2019-06-03 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on EuroMold 2007 Pronounced a Success

The 14th edition of EuroMold, the world fair for mould making and tooling, design, and application development, was pronounced successful by DEMAT GmbH, the show organizer. EuroMold 2007 attracted 61,...

2019-06-03 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Deutsche Messe Returns to Profit in 2007

Provisional figures indicate that the 2007 business performance of Deutsche Messe AG will be notably better than expected. The trade fair organizing company is posting profits of more than €1 mil...

2019-06-03 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New President for MAG’s European Unit

Markus Grob is assuming leadership of the newly established MAG Europe business unit of the machine tool building conglomerate MAG Industrial Automation Systems. Grob, 46, replaces Dr. Robert Wassmer ...

2019-06-02 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Scanner Touch Tool Determines Parting Lines on Free Form Parts

A process has been developed that uses a “touch tool” combined with a NextEngine 3-D scanner (Santa Monica, CA) to determine a mold parting line. The process was created in response to the...

2019-06-02 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Case Study:Learning the Key to Gaining Control over the Entire Production Process

Optimize your tool shop processes by bringing design in-house. Advance mold has been making plastic injection molds for more than 30 years. Today, the company has 37 employees occupying a 53,000-squar...

2019-06-02 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Case Study:A Better Reverse Engineering Approach when Modifying Molds

Laser scanning services make good economic sense as they provide precise CAD data available for robot programming, which shortens the actual programming process. Tennessee Watercraft, Inc. (TWI) is en...