2019-04-24 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Additive Manufacturing In Metal: New Option for Medical Applications
Parts produced by additive processes will require final machining or hand finishing, but allow significant flexibility in the manufacture of custom, short-run, complex or complicated-to-manufacture pa...
2019-04-24 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Dow Corning Electronics’ New Thermally Conductive Compound Offers Electronics Makers Affordable, Effective Conductivity
AMD is First Semiconductor Manufacturer to Qualify TC-5121 for Use in Manufacturing Dow Corning Corporation’s Electronics and Advanced Technologies group today announced the global availability ...
2019-04-24 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Tax threshold may be raised to 2,500 yuan
A draft amendment to the individual income tax law will be submitted to the national legislature for its first review next week, and experts suggest the starting point should be raised to 2000 yu...
2019-04-23 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Corporate debt move a watershed for market
Multinationals are set to get equal access to the domestic corporate debt market in a move that’s being hailed as a major breakthrough in the opening of the financial services sector. The decisi...
2019-04-23 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Blue chips bounce back, index up 2.18%
Heavyweight stocks reversed a downward trend today thanks to the de-freezing of 3.4 trillion yuan ($460.70 billion) of subscription funds and encouraging news from the State asset administrator. ...
2019-04-23 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Vice premier calls for bigger role of central SOEs
Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan said Tuesday that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) administered by the central government should grow more competitive to play a larger role in the economy. "Centra...
2019-04-22 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Uniform Embossing On Hollow Profiles
Paratus Industries, Buffalo, N.Y., a four-year-old builder of custom pullers, cutters, and other downstream machinery for PVC profiles, has introduced a random embosser for hollow fence and rail profi...
2019-04-22 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on First 11-Layer Blown Film Die
Brampton Engineering Inc., Brampton, Ont., recently received an order for the world’s first 11-layer blown film die as part of a complete 11-extruder blown film line. It will be delivered in the...
2019-04-22 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on 3D Mapping of Film Gauge
New software for a fixed array of capacitance gauges provides 100% coverage of webs up to 24-in. wide and a color-coded topographical record of film thickness. The new MultiChannel Array system from S...
2019-04-21 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on PP Sealants for BOPP Run Faster and Clearer
A new family of Adsyl PP sealing resins from Basell North America, Wilmington, Del., is designed to run on the latest generation of high-speed BOPP film lines. Based on Basell’s Catalloy technol...
2019-04-21 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Bimetallic Barrel Gets Helical Grooves
Plasticating systems expert Dr. Eberhard Gruenschloss of the IKT University in Stuttgart, Germany, recently developed the first helically grooved bimetallic barrels for abrasive materials. He invented...
2019-04-21 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Simultaneous Film Stretching at Lower Cost
The first full-scale line for MESIM (mechanical simultaneous stretching) has been built by DMT Technology GmbH in Salzburg, Austria, and is available for customer trials. DMT, whose U.S. office (DMT A...
2019-04-20 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Extruder Maker Builds Own Synchronous Torque Motors
Machine builder Ematik GmbH in Magdeborg, Germany, is the latest firm to adapt its single-screw extruders (25 to 75 mm diam.) to use permanent-magnet, synchronous torque motors. While this is a growin...
2019-04-20 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Sheet Extruder Has Mixer In the Middle
A specialized single-screw extruder with a mixing chamber in the middle compounds and extrudes sheet containing up to 70% recycled tire rubber, mineral fillers, long glass, or natural fibers like wood...
2019-04-20 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Hot-Fill Packaging OPP & ‘Panel-Less’ PET Bottles Grab the Spotlight
Improved clarity and cost competitiveness, added to its inherent heat resistance, are reviving OPP’s prospects in hot-fill barrier containers. But hot-fill PET containers are raising the bar wit...
2019-04-19 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Injection Molding Wood-Plastic Composites
Wood-fiber/thermoplastic blends have already made a name for themselves in extruded decking and fencing boards. Now they are moving into injection molding. Some injection molders are hesitant to exper...
2019-04-19 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New TPE and Rubber Presses Optimize Melt Flow
A new line of presses for TPE or rubber is said to trim cure times by up to 50%. New TurboCure presses from Rep Corp., Bartlett, Ill., feature meltflow enhancements in the injection unit and the mold....
2019-04-19 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Chinese Press Maker Adds MuCell Option
The MuCell microcellular molding process from Trexel Inc., Woburn Mass., is now an option on machines from a "top-tier" Chinese injection press builder. Hong Kong-based Chen Hsong Group (sol...
2019-04-18 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Plasticating Phase Now Simulated by Software
New software that simulates the plastication phase of injection molding can be used to optimize screw design for a particular material and process condition or to determine the process conditions that...
2019-04-18 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Turnkey Multi-Shot Systems From New Partnership
A partnership to provide complete integrated production systems for multi-material molding was announced recently between Gram Technology Inc., Scottsdale, Ariz., and MGS Mfg. Group Inc., Germantown, ...
