Pressure Forming
Pressure Forming is a sophisticated version of the vacuum forming process utilizing air pressure as a forming aid to increase the detail on the mold side. Features that could not be achieved by vacuum...
Continuous Strip Molding
Continuous strip molding (or reel-to-reel molding) is used to efficiently manufacture and assemble small electronic components and other parts that combine tiny metal and plastic components. The proce...
Vacuum Forming
Vacuum forming simply requires the heating of a sheet of plastic until it reaches a forming temperature then utilizing a vacuum to form it into or around a mold. It has been used widely for products f...
Thermoforming
Thermoforming involves the controlled heating of a thermoplastic material to a temperature where its shape may be altered to the shape of the mold. The physical change to the preheated thermoplastic i...
injection molding
Injection molding is a versatile process for forming thermoplastic and thermoset materials into molded products of intricate shapes, at high production rates and with good dimensional accuracy. The pr...
Blow Molding
The Basic Process 1 A thermoplastic resin is heated to a molten state 2 It is then extruded through a die head to form a hollow tube called a parison. 3 The parison is dropped ...
Blow Molding
Blow Molding is a highly developed molding technology developed back in the late 1800’s to produce celluloid baby rattles. It is best suited for basically hollow parts (such as plastic bo...
Government steps in to keep Battenfeld going
Lower Austrian government drums up Euro15m support. In a statement issued yesterday, the regional government of Lower Austria said it will provide support to ensure continuation of the Battenfeld inje...
La Seda de Barcelona buys Interquisa
Spanish group grows further with first entry into North America. Growing Spanish PET group La Seda de Barcelona (LSB) has acquired chemical group Intercontinental Quimica (Interquisa), giving it an en...
Boston Matthews subsidiary bought by mystery buyer
Unpaid Global EPP bill forced firm into administration. BM Plastics Machinery in Worcester has been snapped up by a mystery buyer after it went into administration following the collapse of its major ...
Husky moves to smaller building in the UK
Sales and service becomes focus of UK operation. The UK operation of Husky Injection Molding Systems has relocated to a new service and sales office in Enderby, Leicester, following the closure of its...
Australian plastic bag ban
Minister wants phasing out to start by end of the year. Australia has said it wants to phase out the use of plastic bags following the announcement of a similar move by China earlier this...
Surging Demand for Composites Creates Opportunities for Moldmakers
Metal fabrication skills meet needs of composites manufacturing in a range of high-tech operations. Business is booming in aerospace and defense, fueled by record demand for aircraft and by advances i...
Gibbs to Be Merged into Cimatron
Cimatron Ltd., a leading provider of integrated CAD/CAM solutions for the toolmaking and manufacturing industries, and Gibbs and Associates, which develops GibbsCAM® software for programming cnc m...
Interplas Expects Strong Overseas Presence
There will a strong international representation at Interplas 2008, the UK’s leading plastics and rubber exhibition, according to the organizer, Reed Exhibitions. Reed says that the level of int...
San Diego to Host SolidWorks World 2008
What SolidWorks calls the largest annual worldwide 3D CAD event will be larger than ever when SolidWorks World 2008 convenes January 20–23 in San Diego, California, as the 10th-anniversary editi...
BBG Wins EuroMold Award
The Mindelheim, Germany–based company BBG GmbH & Co. KG enjoyed particular success at EuroMold 2007 in December by winning the silver EuroMold Award for its PV-Therm 160 combination photovol...
EuroMold 2007 Pronounced a Success
The 14th edition of EuroMold, the world fair for mould making and tooling, design, and application development, was pronounced successful by DEMAT GmbH, the show organizer. EuroMold 2007 attracted 61,...
Deutsche Messe Returns to Profit in 2007
Provisional figures indicate that the 2007 business performance of Deutsche Messe AG will be notably better than expected. The trade fair organizing company is posting profits of more than €1 mil...
New President for MAG’s European Unit
Markus Grob is assuming leadership of the newly established MAG Europe business unit of the machine tool building conglomerate MAG Industrial Automation Systems. Grob, 46, replaces Dr. Robert Wassmer ...