Production efficiency was the focus of this year’s Technology Days event, organized in March by injection molding machinery producer Arburg GmbH + Co. KG in Lossburg. Arburg defines production efficiency as an overarching “meta ...
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Universal Dynamics Inc. Trotted out new additions to its dryer lines, as well as a new loading module, new controller and dual fuel power pack, among auxiliary equipment offerings at its NPE exhibit booth. The company is expanding equipment ...
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Business in North America continues to improve for giant Chinese injection molding machine maker Haitian International Holdings Ltd., according to one of the company’s senior officials. At the Chinaplas 2012 trade show, Helmar Franz, ...
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Japanese press maker Toyo Machinery and Metal Co. Ltd. Is broadening the tonnage range of the injection molding machines it makes in Changshu, China. Starting this summer, Toyo will make presses from 50 to 280 tons in Changshu, up from 230 ...
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Taizhou Zhongtian Plastics Co. Ltd. ’s small booth at NPE2012 was filled with large, hollow plastic items – pet houses and wheeled garbage totes of different sizes. The first time NPE exhibitor hopes to open up the U. S. Market ...
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The HPM brand of American injection molding machines is back at NPE -- but now it’s made in China. A 220-metric-ton servo-hydraulic machine is churning out clear plastic boxes at HPM North America Corp. ’s NPE booth. This is the ...
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Aligning with NPE 2012′s theme of “The return of the machines”, Wittmann Group is presenting a wide range of injection molding machines and peripheral equipment at the show. A full range of PowerSeries is on display, ...
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DieCast Connections Company Inc., Chicopee, Mass., has obtained a $300, 000 loan to hire six additional employees and purchase equipment and material in support of a new product. The nonferrous permanent mold and diecasting company obtained ...
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Larry Mermuys started buying Borch injection molding presses imported from China in 2004 for his company, Tier 2 auto supplier Plastics Plus Inc. In Hamilton, Ontario. “The first ones had issues, ” he said. But at NPE2012, he ...
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Husky Injection Molding Systems is not done pushing the envelope of thinner and faster, when it comes to packaging and medical moulding. A Husky official also said the company would break ground on a new plant in China. At NPE2012 in ...
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Sometimes costly and seemingly intractable problems can have simple and inexpensive solutions.Such is the case with the platenGUARD, the first product from the new firm of Advanced Concepts & Precision Components (ACPC) LLC, Wauconda, ...
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Fu Chun Shin Machinery Manufacture Co., a veteran manufacturer of plastic injection molding machines, recently said it has NT$1.2 billion in backlogged orders, which will help boost shipments in the second quarter of this year. The company ...
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Fu Chun Shin Machinery Manufacture Co., Ltd., a seasoned maker of plastic injection molding machines in Taiwan, said it had received orders of NT$460 million in February, a monthly high, mainly from electronics, food-processing and ...
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Despite the lingering European sovereign debt crisis, Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry president C. C. Wang said Taiwan’s machine-tool industry has gradually bottomed and demand from emerging markets as China, India and ...
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Global demand for plastics processing machinery is projected to rise 6% annually through 2015, according to a new market study. Demand will reach to $28.9bn by 2015, thanks to an acceleration in plastic product manufacturing, as well as by ...