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...
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....
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...
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...
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, ...
Cool Mold Hot Spots With Icy Blast of CO2
At the recent K 2007 show in Dusseldorf, Linde Gas Div. of Linde AG, Munich-Pallach, Germany (U.S. office in Murray Hill, N.J.) introduced a method of cooling troublesome hot spots in injection molds ...
Two-Color, Dual-Hardness LSR Molding
At the recent K 2007 show in Dusseldorf, a Swiss custom molder illustrated the trend toward multi-component molding with liquid silicone rubber (LSR). Silcotech AG of Stein am Rhein, molded a baby pac...
Smithers Rapra opening publications centre
Smithers Rapra Technology, an independent testing, consulting and research organisation, is opening a publications distribution and sales center in the United States to serve the polymer industry and ...
Canadian retailer pulls stock of polycarbonate bottles
Mountain Equipment Co-op awaits government study 17 December 2007 – A leading Canadian outdoor sports retailer has pulled its stock of Nalgene brand polycarbonate water bottles off it she...
Benecke gets antitrust nod to buy Alkor
Renolit and Benecke-Kaliko to trade businesses. 17 December 2007 – German antitrust authorities have approved the purchase by Hanover-based Benecke-Kaliko of the automotive film business ...
Basell and partners plan world scale PP unit
Trinidad and Tobago to join ranks of polyolefin makers. 17 December 2007 – A four strong consortium of companies including Basell is to build an integrated polypropylene complex in Trinid...
VPN 800/2G Firewall Provides Secure Links to Remote Locations
HotBrick Network Solutions, a leading supplier of network security services, recently introduced the VPN 800/2G, a combination firewall and router offering high bandwidth sharing, network security, lo...
Firewall/Router provides secure links to remote locations
Offering load balancing, redundancy, VPN failover capability, and 2 WAN ports, VPN 800/2G combination firewall and router enables users to create up to 100 simultaneous, secure IPSec VPN tunnels with ...
New Carton Erection Testing Capability for the Packaging Industry
Lloyd Instruments has announced the availability of a new materials testing fixture, which allows measurement of the force required for carton erection from flat, folded carton blanks. These measureme...
Jig measures force required for box forming
Materials testing fixture measures force required for carton erection from flat, folded carton blanks. Measurements can be used to set up operating conditions for automatic carton erection machines. D...
BNY Mellon zeroes in on asset management
Robert P. Kelly is still working out the details of the integration of Bank of New York and Mellon, which merged in July. But the company’s New York-based chief executive officer told staff in C...
China, Singapore to jointly develop biofuel plants
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of Botany and Singapore’s Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory (TLL) agreed in Beijing on Tuesday to begin joint research into energy-intens...
EU inspectors visit Ineos Vinyl and Hydro Polymers
Concerns over possible irregular exchange of information EU Commission Competition authority inspectors visited Ineos Vinyl and Hydro Polymers’ UK premises this week as part of an investigation ...
Dow’s $11bn joint venture with PIC
Kuwait’s PIC buys half share in Dow’s polyolefins and PC Dow Chemical is to place its polyethylene, polypropylene and polycarbonate businesses in a joint venture with Kuwait’s Petroc...
Bioplastics firm Cereplast opens new plant
Indiana site is closer to agricultural raw materials used in bioplastic. 14 December 2007 – Bioplastics maker Cereplast has chosen Seymour, Indiana, for the location of its Midwest produc...