Plastics processing is a complex system of dialing in and maintaining quality parts as efficiently as possible. Companies with solid process setups start presses quickly, producing no more than three ...

Researchers in Germany have developed a process monitoring and control system for injection molding cells that automatically detects deviations in product quality, identifies the most likely cause, ...

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Hybrid injection molding technology, which joins metal and plastic inside the mold to produce structural components that offer the best of both materials, has been around for more than a dozen years ...

Electromobility and use of post-consumer recyclable (PCR) are main Fakuma themes of Lohne, Germany-based molder and thermoformer Pöppelmann GmbH & Co. KG, which runs more than 700 injection molding ...

Germany's Arburg GmbH + Co KG and a Swiss partner developed a way to processes "paper pearls" made of fiber and a bio-based plastic and it's finding its way onto factory floors in the furniture and ...

After previously trying out low-tech compression molding with a toaster oven and 3D printed molds, [future things] is back with a video that seeks to explore some of the questions raised after the ...

I need to insert an RFID tag inside a part. The temperature cycle is between 20 and 60 seconds, with a maximum temperature of -240 degrees. The tag would go inside a plastic product. The reading ...

Weima America, a Fort Mill, South Carolina-based manufacturer of size reduction equipment for the metal, wood, paper and plastic industries, and the Plastics Industry Association, Washington, have ...