Sometimes inspiration comes from a customer. That is certainly the case for Jim Benton, owner of Poly-Tech Plastic Molding Inc. in Prairie Grove, Ark. A request for a better plastic face shield has ...

“Discover, engineer, build” is an apt slogan for Virtual Engineering Days, scheduled for June 15 to 17, 2021. While the virtual event caters to manufacturing professionals and engineers across a ...

Purging the blow molding machine on the shop floor will ensure efficient performance and a better end product. While there are some differences between standard and custom blow molders, the blow ...

The Plast show in Milan is still the second-largest plastics machinery trade show in Europe and, though this year''s visitor numbers dropped, those who attended saw some outstanding processing ...

Extrusion and injection molding are the most important conversion techniques used by the thermoplastics processing industry. Certain factors need to be considered before a thermoplastics material is ...

Engineering plastics experts (left to right) Tilmann Sontag, Loreen Winkelhake and Arthur Rieb evaluate the quality of a hollow part reinforced with Tepex during blow molding at the Dormagen Technical ...

Germany-based plastic blow molding equipment provider W. Müller GmbH has developed a new generation of screen changers for extrusion blow molding applications. The new screen changers have been ...

According to MarketsandMarkets, "Off-highway Plastics Market by Material Type (Polypropylene, Polyvinyl Chloride, Polyethylene, Polyamide, Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene, Polycarbonate, ...

ANAHEIM, CA (February 12, 2013) – Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics (SGPPL) HealthCare Markets, a leading supplier of innovative products that deliver results for the most demanding medical ...

Scoring against yourself is a disaster in sports and in injection molding. When it comes to purging, self-inflicted errors will reduce efficiency, increase material waste, and cause unexpected machine ...

The global plastics processing industry has experienced significant growth in recent years, driven by rising demand in automotive, packaging, electronics, and consumer goods sectors. As the market ...