Hot-Runner Mold Inserts Offer Cooling Enhancement
Improved cavity filling and cooling are the aims of a new line of inserts for hot runners that are made by “selected laser melting” (SLM) of H-13 steel powders. Developed by HRSFlow HotRun...
Get a Handle on Stress-Cracking In HDPE Bottles
One of the first applications for blow molded HDPE bottles was the replacement of glass for bleach packaging. A standing joke among the bottlers was that their bottles only cracked in the summertime, ...
Custom Conveying Systems Pay Big Returns for Molders
Two injection molders of very different kinds of parts recently faced production problems related to inefficient conveying systems. Both found solutions through customized conveying systems with speci...
Rapid Tooling Grows Profits At Linear Mold
Rapid manufacturing technologies tend to be focused primarily on making prototype and sometimes production parts. But Linear mold and Engineering in Livonia, Mich., is one of the first firms in this c...
China July export growth ahead of forecasts, seen slower later in yr – StanChart
China’s export growth held up in July but it is likely to slow as the year unfolds, as demand from the US and Europe eases, Standard Chartered said. The General Administration of Customs announc...
Molded Housewares Are Down, But Not By Much
Business conditions are tough this year for most any industry segment that has the word “house” as part of its name. But so far, molded housewares are holding up better than most. Our Hous...
Price Hikes Hit Scary Levels
The athletes in Beijing aren’t the only ones taking record leaps this summer. PVC producers asked for a startling 8¢/lb increase; PS prices ticked upward at two-week intervals; PP soared by...
Higher Properties, Lower Cost
Part II of our review of the big JEC international composites show in Paris focuses on resins and reinforcements. (Part I, last month, covered process enhancements, thermoplastic composites, machinery...
New Frontiers in Process Prediction
Software suppliers agree that 3D simulation of injection mold filling, packing, cooling, shrinkage, and warpage is fairly mature. Their latest releases focus on bringing new or enhanced capabilities t...
Always Comes Back to the Mold Builder
How important is mold maintenance and repair to the mold manufacturer? Very. Because it always comes back to the moldmaker. Besides being a highly visited topic area on www.moldmaking technologymold.w...
Everyone Is Welcome
Account managing is the fine art of balancing the needs and expectations of your customer with the skills of your company personnel. This all comes to a head when we put a cost to the services our cus...
Top 10 Technologies on Your Shop’s Wish List
1. Second larger, five-axis, high-speed machine for hard milling. 2. Large bullard horizontal lathe (for the oil rig business, aerospace and round parts in molds). 3. Flow analysis software. 4. Latest...
Qianmen opens the gate to foreigners
When you’re in Beijing and do what the Beijing people do, there is no other place to do that better than in Qianmen. As the literal translation of the name, ‘Front gate’, sugge...
Siemens steps up green goal
Europe’s largest engineering company Siemens said its environmental portfolio would generate order intake of 4 billion euros in China in 2010. This equates to 40 percent of the company’s t...
LMT Opens Innovation and Training Centre
LMT—the Leitz Metalworking Technology Group—has opened a new innovation and training centre at the plant of its Fette subsidiary in Schwarzenbek, Germany. The new facility offers users of ...
Infotech, Dassault Aviation Sign Agreement
Infotech Enterprises Ltd. (IEL), a technology solutions provider with global headquarters in Hyderabad, India, and Dassault Aviation, a major player in civil and military aviation, have signed a memor...
Mold-Masters Tech Forum Draws 70-Plus
mold-Masters held its 2nd Technology Forum recently in Kulmbach, Germany. More than 70 people interested in multicomponent moulding applications participated. The venue had been booked out far in adva...
SPE Sets First Conference on Medical Polymers
The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) is organizing the European Medical Polymers Conference 2008 for presentation at Queen’s University Belfast in the capital city of Northern Ireland, UK, on...
EuroMold 2008 Aims to Help SMEs
EuroMold 2008, to be held December 3–6 in Frankfurt, will bring together professionals from the areas of design, mould making and tooling, and machine tools, as well as suppliers and manufacture...
Mazak Hosts UK Aerospace Tech Seminar
While the financial and construction sectors of the British economy continue to face difficulties, a recent seminar highlighting modern methods in aerospace manufacturing made the case that the manufa...