Blow molding (also known as blow moulding or blow forming) is a manufacturing process by which hollow plastic parts are formed. In general, there are three main types of blow molding: extrusion blow molding, injection blow molding, and ...
At Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH’s open house event in Wiehe facility in September, the company’s process development specialist André Luck described the ActiveLock and ActiveFlowBalance systems and how ...
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The recent International Plastic Fair, Japan’s largest plastics show, saw a sharp drop in attendance from the last edition in 2008, with the number of visitors down 34 percent to just over 43,700. Organizers for the show, which ran ...
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Penn State Behrend engineering student Kaitlin Wolf aspires to design and develop medical plastic devices in the health-care industry. The 21-year-old senior from Buffalo will be among an inaugural class of six Behrend students scheduled to ...
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JCIM LLC, the molding unit of auto interior supplier Johnson Controls Inc., has sold its blow molding operations in a move that will allow it to concentrate on its core production in injection molding. Engineered Plastic Components Inc. of ...
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Flooding in Thailand appear to have done major damage to some of the country’s plastics processors, according to reports emerging from machinery suppliers with sizable business there. Tokyo-based Toshiba Machine Co. Ltd., for example, ...
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Engineered Plastic Components Inc. has completed its fourth acquisition of the past 12 months and expects to close a fifth by the end of the year. The newly added companies and individual plants have added diversity in both processing ...
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As Japan’s largest plastics show kicked off Oct. 25, the country’s machinery industry faces an uncertain time, with its global production up but companies under pressure to move manufacturing to low-cost spots. Japanese ...
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German injection molding machine group Arburg says its turnover in 2011 will exceed its 2007 record of 409 million euros. Speaking at a news conference at the Fakuma fair in Friedrichshafen, Arburg managing director Michael Hehl said 2010 ...
That is the case for members of the European plastics and rubber machinery industry, according to Euromap, the trade group that represents the continent's plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers. During the group's triennial General ...
For the first time in history, the Society of Plastics Engineers Inc. has given its Mold Maker of the year award to an executive at a company outside North America. SPE’s Mold Making and Mold Design division presented the award to ...
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Canadian companies were on a buying spree in the spring despite financial turmoil in Europe and the U. S., according to a report released Wednesday. There were 836 merger and acquisitions announced, worth about $57 billion (U. S. ) from ...
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KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH has doubled its sales of new injection molding machinery in Brazil to 18 million euros ($25.9 million) this year, a senior official says. “We’ve had our best year in Brazil, ” the official, ...
The last five years have brought big changes to China’s Haitian International Holdings Ltd. The maker of injection molding machines has more than doubled sales to 7.05 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion) solely on organic growth, launched ...
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Haitian International Holdings Ltd., China's largest injection press maker, saw revenues rise 15 percent in the first half of the year to 3.70 billion yuan ($578.3 million), as record-high exports, particularly to Southeast Asia and Eastern ...
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