Plastic Injection Guide

2019-05-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on What about CFCs used in plastics?

 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFC’s) were used in the past to make foamed plastic.  In response to concerns about the ozone layer, polystyrene manufacturers voluntarily phased out the use of C...

2019-05-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Why do we need different kinds of plastics?

Copper, silver and aluminum are all metals, yet each has unique properties. We do not make a car out of silver or a beer can out of copper because the properties of these metals are not the best choic...

2019-05-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Why are plastics used in packaging?

Packaging serves many purposes.  The public may think the package lasts only a few minutes during the use of the product, but the real demands are much more extensive.  Packaging must delive...

2019-05-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on How are plastics made?

Most commercial plastics encountered by consumers consist of building blocks of carbon.  Those building blocks are typically derived from petroleum or natural gas, but can be derived from coal or...

2019-05-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Long-Fiber Pellets Come Fully Loaded

The Complet line of long-fiber reinforced thermoplastic (LFRT) pellets from PlastiComp LLC, Winona, Minn., now is available with color, impact modifier, and/or other additives. This "single-pelle...

2019-05-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Yuan climbs most since China ended dollar link

The Chinese yuan climbed 219 basis points to break the 7.32 and 7.31 mark Thursday, with the central parity rate at record 7.3079 to the US dollar, according to the Chinese Foreign Exchange Trading Sy...

2019-05-11 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...

2019-05-11 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. ...

2019-05-11 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on High-speed plastics injection

An all-electric plastics injection moulder will operate at high speed producing technical parts for an IML application in the packaging industry, during a forthcoming US event Arburg said that the eno...

2019-05-10 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on These aren’t your grandparents’ wheelchairs

Forget about transportation—these chairs are built for combat. Vesco Metal Craft, a manufacturer of rugby wheelchairs, makes specialized wheelchairs from 6061 seamless aluminum tubing. This viol...

2019-05-10 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Air-Gage-Equipped, Vertical CNC Honing System

SV-1005 series machines capable of accuracy to 0.25µm for hole diameters 3-65 mm. Ideal for low-cost, high-Cpk production of hydraulic valves/bodies, small engines, fuel injectors, gears, gun ba...

2019-05-10 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Vertical CNC Honing Machine integrates air-gauging system

Providing closed-loop control of tool size, along with downloadable SPC data, SV-1005 series machines automatically control hole size to accuracies of 0.00001 in., working on size range of 0.120-2.56 ...

2019-05-09 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Pressure Bag Molding

Pressure bag molding is similar to the vacuum bag moldimg method except that air pressure, usually 30 to 50 psi, is applied to a rubber bag, or sheet that covers the laid up composite to force out ent...

2019-05-09 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Filament Winding

Filament winding consists of winding resin impregnated fibers or rovings of glass, aramid, or carbon on a rotating mandrel in predetermined patterns. The method provides the greatest control over fibe...

2019-05-09 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Reaction Injection Molding (RIM)

Reaction injection molding (RIM) is also known as liquid reaction molding or high- pressure impingement mixing. The low pressure method involves mechanical mixing often with plural component dispensin...

2019-05-08 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Continuous Lamination

Continuous Lamination makes composites in sheet form such as composite glazing, corrugated or flat construction panels, and electrical insulating materials. Reinforcement is combined with resin and sa...

2019-05-08 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Centrifugal Casting

Centrifugal Casting is used for making cylindrical, hollow shapes such as tanks, pipes and poles. Chopped strand mat is placed into a hollow, cylindrical mold, or continuous roving is chopped and dire...

2019-05-08 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Compression Molding

Compression molding is done with matched metal molds utilizing sheet-molding compound (SMC), bulk-molding compound (BMC), or preform mat. A weighed charge of SMC or BMC, or a preform of glass reinforc...

2019-05-07 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Autoclave Molding

Autoclave molding is a modification of pressure-bag and vacuum-bag molding. This advanced composite process produces denser, void free moldings because higher heat and pressure are used for curing. It...

2019-05-07 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Strong outlook for pallet stretch film market

AMI says higher growth will be seen in emerging markets. The market for pallet stretch film is growing well worldwide, but it is the Middle East that will show the strongest regional growth over the n...