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2019-05-07 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Italian machinery enjoys good results

Strong 21% export growth in first nine months of 2007. Italian plastics and rubber machinery exports have grown by 21% in the first nine months of 2007 while growth of imports has been constrained to ...

2019-05-06 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on DSM invests in biodegradables firm Novomer

Firms intend to sign cooperation agreement. DSM Venturing announced that it has made an undisclosed investment in Novomer, which makes biodegradable aliphatic polycarbonates from epoxides and carbon d...

2019-05-06 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Basell plans 2nd China PP compounding plant

33 million pound facility will supply automotive and appliance manufacturers. Basell NV has announced plans to build a second polypropylene compounding plant in China, in the automotive and ...

2019-05-06 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Huhtamaki restructures plastics operations

Packaging firm targets European rigid plastics division. Huhtamaki is to record losses in the fourth quarter of €103m mostly related to its rigid plastics production in Europe and announced plans...

2019-05-05 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on China expects 30% annual growth in tax revenues

China’s tax revenues are expected to surpass 4.9 trillion yuan ($668.8 billion) in 2007, up 30 percent year on year, the country’s top tax official said on Tuesday. Addressing a national c...

2019-05-05 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Investors’ results mixed in 2007, optimistism remains

Just over half, or 51.36 percent, of all stock investors showed no gains from China’s bull market, while 48.6 percent gained more than 10 percent this year, according to a survey by the China Se...

2019-05-05 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Liquidmetal(R) Technologies and Buhler Die Casting, a Leading Global Manufacturer of Die Casting Equipment, Form Strategic Relationship

Liquidmetal® Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:LQMT – News) today announced the signing of a manufacturing agreement with Buhler Die Casting, through its wholly owned subsidiary BuhlerPrince, Inc. t...

2019-05-04 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Cold Runner Manifold with Center Gate Provides Easy Operation, Maintenance

A cold runner manifold system for thermoset injection molds has been developed to overcome the challenges that come with using cold runners. Binding, uneven flow and premature washout of mold contours...

2019-05-04 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Extruders Made in China: They’re Coming Here Now

Low-priced Chinese-built extruders have arrived in North America to make pipe, sheet, film, and profiles. Some customers find them a good buy; others don’t. Here’s what you need to know. C...

2019-05-04 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Two ways to get tooling fast

Not satisfied with the speed and accuracy of current rapid-tooling techniques, Dynamic Tooling, an injection molder in Fresno, Calif., recently devised two new ways to make tooling in a hurry. First, ...

2019-05-03 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Testing & QC: New Lab Instruments Stress Affordability & Convenience

Thermal and mechanical testers, color and appearance sensors, vision inspection devices and CMMs—the NPE had them all in more compact, economical, and easy-to-use models. Compact. Repeatable. Ea...

2019-05-03 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Xenotest? Alpha+

The Xenotest Alpha+ provides reproducible and repeatable test results of lightfastness and weatherability using an air-cooled xenon arc light source and the ability to perform high irradiance tests up...

2019-05-03 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Heat-Distortion Testers

A new line of instruments measures both heat-distortion temperature (HDT) and Vicat softening temperature of thermoplastics as described in ISO 10350-1. Available from Zwick USA, Kennesaw, Ga., the li...

2019-05-02 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on How to pick a top-quality moldmaker(3)

A FORMAL QUALITY POLICY? Lappine of Comet Tool remarks that quality control is becoming an increasingly important issue for moldmakers. "We have to be able to record and maintain traceability of ...

2019-05-02 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on How to pick a top-quality moldmaker(2)

EXPERIENCE ON THE BENCH Moldmaking quality is not all hardware or software. The most important area of the mold shop, according to consultant Pirro, is the bench area: "If you don’t have go...

2019-05-02 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on How to pick a top-quality moldmaker(1)

What criteria do sharp molders use to select an equally competent moldmaker? And how do the best moldmakers maintain their own quality? Here’s what they told us. Deciding on the right moldmaker ...

2019-05-02 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Measure Web Static At the Right Distance

A new handheld static detector, Model 983v2 Static Locator, launched by Meech International in the U.K. (U.S. office in Norton, Ohio) at the recent K 2007 show in Germany, automatically senses its dis...

2019-05-01 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Additives Raise Melt Strength And Toughness of PLA

Three new additives are designed to improve melt strength, clarity, and recyclability of PLA (polylactic acid) biopolymer. The Biostrength family of additives was launched at the K 2007 show by the Fr...

2019-05-01 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Selective Materials Strategy Is A Potent Tool for Moldmakers(2)

Multiple Steel Choices Suppliers offer a range of products for selective materials specification. Chief among these are metals and coatings that resist the aggressive process conditions of resins with...

2019-05-01 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Selective Materials Strategy Is A Potent Tool for Moldmakers(1)

Reducing mold build costs with different steels and coatings may give North American shops more business from electronics OEMs. Metal producers and coating suppliers have long promoted the use of spec...