Eight jobs at Advantech Plastic Injection Molding, in Woodstock, Illinois, popped up serendipitously into my email inbox yesterday morning. If you want a job, they’re out there–in plentiful abundance. Not only are corporations hiring, they’re rewarding hard work with the observance of the Labor Day holiday. This year’s impending labor day holiday is scheduled for…
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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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So you say you want to make and market a plastic injected molded product? Any business major can tell you the basic ROI calculation: Revenue from investment – cost of investment cost of investment Think about it: if this formula doesn’t yield a positive number, you’re losing money! So how does…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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