2019-02-19 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Germany: Record global sales for Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles has announced a new sales record of 356,000 vehicles in the first nine months of calendar 2007, an 11.4% rise compared to the 319,650 vehicles sold in the same period of...
2019-02-18 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Dow announces PP plant closure in US
Difficulties finding affordable feedstock are leading Dow Chemical to shut down 500 million pounds (227,000 tonnes) of annual polypropylene capacity at its St. Charles plant in Hahnville, Louisiana, U...
2019-02-18 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on ToolCare UK opening US plant
British toolmaker ToolCare UK is moving into the United States, with construction of a $2.8m shop starting in December in Auburn, Alabama. ToolCare US International will design, build and service tool...
2019-02-18 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on PetroChina HDPE plants to use Basell technology
PetroChina has chosen Basell’s Hostalen technology for two HDPE plants to be built for completion in 2011. The technology will be used in a 300,000tpa plant at Chengdu, in Sichuan province as we...
2019-02-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Delcam Introduces Direct CAM Link to Vericut
Delcam plc has introduced a direct link from its PowerMill CAM system to CGTech’s Vericut software for machine tool simulation and feed rate optimization. Linking the leading CAM and simulation ...
2019-02-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on New Infotech Centre Opens in Bangalore
The Hyderabad, India–based information technology services firm Infotech Enterprises has opened a new 1,500-seat development centre in Bangalore. With a built-up area of 240,000 ft² (2...
2019-02-17 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Europe Gets a New Name in Cutting Tools
It has been more than two years since the American manufacturer Valenite and the French company Safety SAS merged in order to attain a competitive size in the cutting tools sector and be able to offer...
2019-02-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on ‘Tour de Alufix’: Horst Witte on the Road
For the past three months, the demo van of Horst Witte Barskamp Gerätebau e.K has been on the road in Europe. The vehicle is equipped with all the necessary components for introducing the company...
2019-02-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Bemis and Plantic get together in bioplastic project
Bemis Company announced today that it will work with Australian company Plantic Technologies to develop biodegradable packaging. Bemis, headquartered in the US, will work with Plantic to develop flexi...
2019-02-16 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on UK recycled PET project scheduled for 2009
Petagain Ltd has announced its intention to build the UK’s first large-scale food-grade PET recycling plant running on chemical technology. Scheduled for 2009, the plant will use a continuous ch...
2019-02-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Scale of PVC Group debt revealed
The PVC Group, which went into administration in September, has debts totalling nearly £50m, PRWmold.wiki has learned from the administrator’s statement of proposal (SoP) filed at the UK&r...
2019-02-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Patented, Ultralightweight Boring Tools
The TruLine Tool family of composite fine boring tools, developed in North America by a division of Johnson Carbide Products Inc., is being distributed in 13 Western and Central European countries by ...
2019-02-15 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Mold Repair Paste comes in 50 ml dual-barrel cartridges
Formulated to produce long-lasting repairs to fiberglass molds, RAPID PATCH repair paste can be feathered out after curing for less than 20 minutes at 75ºF. It chemically bonds to damaged mold se...
2019-02-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Job Profile: Plastic injection molding technician
Cory Schmidtz melts and molds plastic for casting electrical components. The 38-year-old plastic injection molding technician makes casings for thermometers, dashboards and computers using a 440-ton p...
2019-02-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on India: Daimler pulls out of Eicher talks
Daimler has exited the race to acquire a stake in New Delhi-based Eicher Motors, according to Business standard. Daimler has exited the race to acquire a stake in New Delhi-based Eicher Motors, a...
2019-02-14 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on France: Renault to provide natural gas trucks for Monoprix delivery experiment
Renault Trucks and its partner PVI (Ponticelli Vehicules Industriels) will provide most of the vehicles to operators working for an experimental logistics scheme in Paris for Monoprix, a major re...
2019-02-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Germany: MAN Group’s net income rises 32% in first nine months
MAN Group says its net sales for the first nine months of 2007 rose 12% year-on-year to €10.28bn (US$14.88bn), thanks to a sharp increase in order intake and order backlog. Sales from German...
2019-02-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Germany: Audi confirms production plans for Q7 gasoline-electric hybrid SUV
Audi has confirmed that a gasoline-electric version of its Q7 SUV is nearing production. The OEM premiered a prototype version at the Frankfurt motor show in September 2005. Audi’s con...
2019-02-13 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Makino Opens Tech Centre in Slovakia
Bratislava, Slovakia, is the site of a technology and training centre that was opened officially on October 25 by the machine tool builder Makino. Bratislava, the country’s capital, was chosen a...
2019-02-12 Plastic Injection Guide Comments Off on Gibbs, Kubotek Announce Integration
Gibbs and Associates, the developer of GibbsCAM® software for programming cnc machine tools, and Kubotek, the creator of geometry-based KeyCreator® CAD software, have teamed up to develop inte...
