Here in the “good ole USA,” once again, and for the three-hundred and seventeenth time, we approach celebrating the birth of our nation. Most of us, especially in the small town of this population 20,000, where this author lives, signs of the next American holiday appear: every other house hosts red, white and blue bunting…
Filed Under:Plastic Injection Molding News
While designing cool stuff like cars, furniture and housewares is the dream job of almost every design school graduate, creating personal care packaging usually isn’t even on their career radar. But it should be, designers in the beauty industry say, because the same sense of aesthetics needed for those cooler items can be applied (no…
Filed Under:personal care product packaging
Marketers are always looking for the next cool look in personal care product packaging. This fall, that look could take on a decidedly “frosty” appearance, thanks to a ground-breaking new iteration of DuPont Surlyn ionomer resins. Produced by DuPont Performance Materials, these resins were designed for a one-step plastic injection molding process which produces…
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There’s a famous scene in “The Graduate”, the iconic 60’s movie that made a star out of Dustin Hoffman, and which besmirched a material that 50 years later has made a stunning comeback. It comes at a graduation party for Hoffman’s character: one of the adult party-goers corrals “Ben”, the Hoffman character, leads him outside…
Filed Under:plastic injection molded electronic parts , Plastic Injection Molding Methods
It’s hard to drill down to the facts these days — on any topic. The surfeit of information precipitated by digital media (read: the internet) has confused and distracted almost everyone from the truth about everything. Manufacturing is no exception. Just mentioning the words off-shoring, re-shoring and automation is to beg an instant argument. But…
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In the late ’80s, visitors to county fairs, amusement parks and other mega-outdoor venues began seeing a new kind of frozen treat which was billed as the evolutionary descendant of ice cream. Marketed as “Dippin’ Dots: The Ice Cream of the Future,” this new “revolutionary” dessert was touted by its founders as a disruptive entry…
Filed Under:Plastic food packaging
Please don’t be offended by the recent addition of the CONTACT US page that you are redirected to when you click on the link of the Equipment tab of the Advantech Plastic Injection Molding website https:/: If you are in the habit of perusing the internet looking for information, have you noticed that…
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Plastic injection mold manufacturers have a nemesis when it comes to resolving warpage. The culprit is the gap between the conventional assumptions, i.e. guesswork, of mold temperature warpage and actual warpage of parts that occur in real time. Because of advances in software technology, including software simulation packages, trial and error experiments at the production…
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Many people have heard of “living wills.” And everybody knows what a “living room” is. But how many people, outside the plastic injection molding industry, have heard of a “living hinge”? Unlike the aforementioned “living” examples, a living hinge is a thin flexible hinge fabricated from the same material as the two rigid pieces it…
Filed Under:Plastic Caps and Closures
There’s big profit in small plastic medical parts, which is prompting leading medical molders to make big changes of their own. How small are these parts? Try tenths-of-a-millimeter small. This is a quantum leap forward — or downward, if you will — for these plastic injection molders. And the medical devices that they are manufacturing…
Filed Under:Plastic Injection Molding Medical Parts