Automation in Winding, Coiling and Cutting for Reduced Labor and Increased Safety and Consistency
Reel Power will demonstrate how its automatic winding system works in concert with extrusion and automated pick and place.
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Your Business
Prices for PE, PS, PVC, PET Trending Flat; PP to Drop
Despite price increase nominations going into second quarter, it appeared there was potential for generally flat pricing with the exception of a major downward correction for PP.
Read MorePrices Up for All Volume Resins
First quarter was ending up with upward pricing, primarily due to higher feedstock costs and not supply/demand fundamentals.
Read MoreAustrian Recycler's Mission to Recycle PET Takes It Beyond Bottles
Mission PET supplements bottle-to-bottle capability with alternative applications for recycled PET.
Read MoreProcessing Plant Tour
Engineering Resins Compounder Expands to Take on More Scrap
Polymer Resources responds to sustainability push by upgrading plant with grinding and shredding equipment to take on both postindustrial and postconsumer reclaim.
Read MoreBack in the Family Business
In its 45th year, Precision Molded Plastics has carved out a technology and market niche, growing not just when opportunities arise but when they make sense, after its leader changed careers to keep the family business from changing hands.
Read MoreBreaking the Barrier: An Emerging Force in 9-Layer Film Packaging
Hamilton Plastics taps into its 30-plus years of know-how in high-barrier films by bringing novel, custom-engineered, nine-layer structures resulting from the investment in two new lines.
Read MoreTechnology in Depth
Finding Efficiencies in How Components Work Together
Auxiliary systems are vital to the proper functioning of a plastic processing line, and they can be a source of major cost and efficiency improvements.
Read MoreDigital Twin Creates New, Virtual Paths for Robots with Real-World Cycle-Time Impacts
Realtime Robotics seeks to get more robots involved in manufacturing by addressing the biggest current barrier: programming costs.
Read MoreNew Blown-Film Cooling Technologies Set to Debut at NPE2024
Cooling specialist Addex to roll out new auto-profiling air ring for rotating dies, and new single-plenum air ring.
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- Real-Time Production Monitoring as Automation
- The Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Their Application to Injection Molding
- Unraveling the Science and Myth Associated With Moisture Analysis — Part 2
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- What You Need to Know About the Design and Operation of Maddock Mixers
Solutions
The Role Barrel Temperatures Play in Melting
You need to understand the basics of how plastic melts in an extruder to properly set your process and troubleshoot any issues. Hint: it’s not about the barrel temperature settings.
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Let's Take a Journey into the World of Molding Thermosets – Part 1
There are many fundamental differences between thermosets and thermoplastics, from the way raw materials are furnished to the molder and the process in which parts are molded.
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How to Configure Your Twin-Screw Extruder for Mixing: Part 5
Understand the differences between distributive and dispersive mixing, and how you can promote one or the other in your screw design.
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Essential Reading
Best of Fattori, Tooling Know How
In this collection of articles Jim Fattori offers his insights on a variety of molding-related topics that are bound to make your days on the production floor go a little bit better.
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Fundamentals of Polyethylene – Part 6: PE Performance
Don’t assume you know everything there is to know about PE because it’s been around so long. Here is yet another example of how the performance of PE is influenced by molecular weight and density.
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Screw Design Tips to Boost Productivity
In this collection of articles, two of the industry’s foremost authorities on screw design — Jim Frankland and Mark Spalding — offer their sage advice on screw design...what works, what doesn’t, and what to look for when things start going wrong.
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Fundamentals of Polyethylene – Part 5: Metallocenes
How the development of new catalysts—notably metallocenes—paved the way for the development of material grades never before possible.
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Polyethylene Fundamentals – Part 4: Failed HDPE Case Study
Injection molders of small fuel tanks learned the hard way that a very small difference in density — 0.6% — could make a large difference in PE stress-crack resistance.
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Fundamentals of Polyethylene – Part 3: Field Failures
Polyethylene parts can fail when an inappropriate density is selected. Let’s look at some examples and examine what happened and why.
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Latest News and Products
Uniloy Enhances Aftermarket Services, Renews Its Machinery Portfolio
NPE2024: At the show, Uniloy is highlighting its expanded service network and spare-parts capabilities, as well as a new tooling asset-management program and interactive electronic machine manual. Not on display are several new machinery developments across the company’s technology spectrum.
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‘Cutting-Edge’ Portfolio of Electrically Conductive Plastics
NPE 2024: Premix Group is unveiling its Pre-Elec compounds and concentrates for ESD, explosive atmosphere, liquid handling and metal replacement applications.
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Formerra in Distribution Partnership with AFC Ecoplastics
The company now distribute AFC’s certified compostable materials to help packaging meet growing eco-demands
Read MoreExtreme Coatings Names Jackson Director, North American Sales
Company also extends its global manufacturing footprint.
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Tomra GAINnext Uses Deep Learning Technology to Purify PET Streams for Recycling
NPE2024: AI sorting add on for the company’s Autosort systems aids in removing elusive plastic contaminants.
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U.S. Debut for Slimmed Down Electric Machine
NPE2024: Arburg’s debut of the 310-ton Allrounder 720 E Golden Electric extends the tonnage range of the electric series and marks the first global press premiere outside of Germany.
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Simulation Software Offers More Insights into Coextrusion, Layer Incapsulation
NPE2024: Compuplast to also debut simulation tools for blow molding and thermoforming.
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‘Smart,’ Moisture-Based Drying Technology Enhanced
NPE2024: Novatec relaunches DryerGenie with a goal to putting an end to drying based on time.
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