You don’t normally associate the words “tariffs” and “plastic packaging” but that’s exactly what many US plastic injection molding companies want President Trump to do in order to retaliate against China’s aggressive intellectual theft and government subsidies of their home-grown plastics companies. In fact, Pactiv LLC, one of the biggest U.S. plastics companies, is making…
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Almonds taste great in cakes, breads, cereal, candy bars, even liquors. Now there’s research going on that call for a plastics recipe which includes the tasty nut as filler. Well, not the almond itself; more specifically, its shell. Almond shells enhance the strength of plastic more than most conventional materials and are being tested as…
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We take it for granted in our industry: molten plastic cools and crystallizes into some preordained shape in a mold under a predetermined pressure in a process called plastic injection molding. If only it were that easy. The story begins with melted or “molten” plastics. All these polymer molecules look relatively the same at the…
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Plastic injection molding, as a process, has many parameters but none so important as the right design. Design is particularly important for rapid plastic injection molding, (RIM) where speed is of the essence, as is quality. This post is a top-level examination of many of the vital design considerations that must be taken into account…
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Plastic injection molding companies throughout the region are licking their lips at the news of Foxconn’s decision to build a massive new manufacturing facility in Kenosha, WI. The reason is simple: the new plant will require equally massive amounts of plastic digital device cases, TV housings and other plastic items to support their operation. Because…
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Too good to be true, you say? Believe it: the latest production monitoring systems are increasingly internet-based (usually wi-fi) and can be installed by even the most non-techie executive. The goal? Saving money, of course, by utilizing real-time data from the plastic injection molding process, then turning around and making that process more efficient. And…
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As summer ends and fall approaches, university students prepare to return to leaf-littered lawns. How many students are on track for a career in plastic injection molding? If you are an engineering major, an industrial designer, engineer, computer software programmers, and yes, even the student who wants to earn extra money selling Tupperware or Mary…
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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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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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When you think about it, two-shot molding is actually a misnomer. How so? Well, for one thing, this plastic injection molding process utilizes a four-cavity mold, which is mounted on a rotary platen. This allows a 180° rotation of the core side of the mold which positions the first-shot core into alignment with the second…
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