Traditional paint booth operations add significant time, capital investment and logistical challenges to production.

German investment firms to buy European Petrochemical business as well as Engineering Thermoplastics business in the Americas ...

The facility, which includes 88,000 square feet of manufacturing space, will support scalable production, cleanroom ...

The Connector Conundrum: 3D Printed Mold Tooling’s Role in Innovation ReelView Fishing faced an electronics obstacle in the development of its new technology for underwater video. Additive ...

Film extrusion is divided into two subcategories: cast film (flat film) and blown film. In cast film extrusion, hot plastic is extruded through a flat, slit die onto a polished chill roll where it is ...

Pipe is formed when plastics is extruded through a round shaping die, cooled in a water bath, and either cut and coiled. Used in manufacture of medical tubing; PVC pipe; HDPE pipe; siding; plastic ...

What You Need to Know About Roll-Cooling Design Cooling rolls might not look like high-tech machines, but the fact is there is a surprising amount of technology involved in their design, manufacture ...

Producing plastics parts with undercuts presents distinct challenges for molders. Undercuts are protrusions or recessions in a part that prevent the mold, after the part is formed, from sliding away ...

Mold Maintenance, Tooling Know How The ability of technicians in an injection molding shop to fix, modify or upgrade a mold has a huge impact on that company’s bottom line. With this collection of ...

At last fall’s K 2025 fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, a Cyprus-based builder of injection stretch-blow molding machines (ISBM) showed off its latest developments in PET containers of up to 1,000 liters ...

Gifted with extraordinary technical know how and an authoritative yet plain English writing style, in this collection of articles Fattori offers his insights on a variety of molding-related topics ...

Corpus Christi Petroleum (CCP) has resumed construction of its new plant in Texas, which when slated for start-up in 2025 will represent the world’s largest vertically-integrated PET/PTA facility, ...