Plastic Injection Guide

2019-05-20 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New labor contract law changes employment landscape

A new labor contract law was put into effect on Tuesday, following a string of staff-sacking scandals in many companies. The 98-article law, approved by China’s top legislature in June, entitled...

2019-05-19 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New Consumable Kit Offers More Convenience to Powermax Owners

Hypertherm, the world leader in metal cutting technology, today announced the availability of a new consumable kit that will make it easier for people who own a Powermax1000®, 1250, or 1650 to rea...

2019-05-19 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Consumable Kit facilitates 4 types of plasma cutting

Intended for owners of Powermax1000®, 1250, or 1650 plasma systems, Consumable Kit includes shielded consumables for everyday drag cutting that involves following line or template. It also comes w...

2019-05-19 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Vertical Machining Center incorporates digital control.

FX series is available with Infimatic Freedom NC200(TM) digital control, which offers 3 navigation choices specifically suited for metal-cutting machine tool applications. Complete with 3D graphics, N...

2019-05-18 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Staged Bending Tooling completes multiple bends in one setup.

Designed to minimize setup time for multi-stage bends on press brakes, European-style Staged Bending Tooling allows one press brake operator to carry out complex series of bends in one machine setup. ...

2019-05-18 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Embedded Automation Computer speeds system development

Based on 1.4 GHz Intel Pentium/1.0 GHz Celeron processor, Model UNO-2176 supports pre-configured Windows XP Embedded OS and Windows CE 5.0 images with onboard device drivers. Unit includes 512 KB batt...

2019-05-18 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Solid Waste Management

In addressing all the superior attributes of polymers, it is equally important to discuss some of the challenges associated with the materials. Most plastics deteriorate in full sunlight, but never de...

2019-05-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Characteristics of Polymers

The majority of manufactured polymers are thermoplastic, meaning that once the polymer is formed it can be heated and reformed over and over again. This property allows for easy processing and facilit...

2019-05-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Molecular Arrangement of Polymers

Think of how spaghetti noodles look on a plate. These are similar to how linear polymers can be arranged if they lack specific order, or are amorphous. Controlling the polymerization process and quenc...

2019-05-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on The Structure of Polymers

Many common classes of polymers are composed of hydrocarbons, compounds of carbon and hydrogen. These polymers are specifically made of carbon atoms bonded together, one to the next, into long chains ...

2019-05-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Definition of Plastics

If you’re after basic information on plastic materials, this is the place to find it. Here you’ll learn the definition and properties of polymers, another name for plastics. The simplest d...

2019-05-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Hot Runner Application Review Leads to Successful Processing

Successful application of a hot runner in the molding environment requires detailed analysis of gating styles, resin and molder expectations. Hot runner systems are a key component of the multi-cavity...

2019-05-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Melt Management’s Role in a More Efficient Mold

One shop is finding great success—through special standardization—cutting scrap and runner costs by balancing the flow in the molds and reducing cycle times while using smaller, most cost-...

2019-05-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Identifying Common Causes of Failure in Ejector Sleeves

Criteria that can be used in making ejector sleeves, which will minimize or eliminate failures as well as improve the performance and function of ejector sleeves and minimize maintenance. Basically, t...

2019-05-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on A New Approach to Designing Lifter Cores: Dual-Rod Design

Benefits of using a secondary guide rod on lifter core assemblies. Conventional lifter cores have been somewhat limited in their performance given the large mold footprints they create. Reactionary fo...

2019-05-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Innovative Hot Runner Solutions for Ultra Small Parts

The injection molding of micro parts calls for innovative hot runner solutions to comply with the demands of injection molders and toolmakers. The injection molding of precision and micro parts create...

2019-05-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Hot Runner Technology for Bio-Resins

The polylactic acid trend, material benefits and challenges to injection molding and injection mold design. Booming populations and the growth of the global economy are creating increased demand for p...

2019-05-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Why are plastics used in durable goods?

Manufactured items defined with a useful life of more than three years, including automobiles, appliances, computers, etc., are called durable goods. Manufacturers of durable goods choose plastics for...

2019-05-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Are toxic chemicals included in the plastic products we buy?

The simple answer is ‘not intentionally’.  The more thorough answer is that toxicity is a complicated subject.  Salt, and even water, at too high an intake are toxic to humans.&n...

2019-05-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Are toxic compounds used to make plastics and if so, would not the plastics be toxic?

Some of the raw materials used to make plastics are rather non-reactive at room temperature and others are highly reactive.  For example, one reactive compound, ethylene, is used to make polyethy...