Coffee fashionistas probably don’t even think about it but they should: their precious, oh-so-trendy, and yes, expensive, single-use coffee pods are decidedly not green. In fact, they’re landfill-bait. How so? They’re made of polystyrene, which isn’t recyclable for a number of reasons, chiefly because of cost and food-safety concerns. That’s bad news for the environment…
Filed Under:Plastic food packaging & beverage packaging
The U.S. plastic injection press market is pressing forward in 2016. What’s driving it? Well, automotive is certainly fueling some of the growth— the industry’s robust U.S. sales of 16 million to 18 million vehicles has powered the overall injection molding machinery business, but especially plastic injection molding, which produces everything from interior door panels…
Filed Under:Automotive Plastic Injection Molded Parts
It’s so obvious, we sometimes take it for granted: injection molded plastics are used in automated processes to reduce the manufacturing cost — it’s as simple as that. But, of course, it’s not that simple — there are other benefits, a whole host of them. Chief among them is the fact that Plastic Injection Molding…
Filed Under:Plastic Injection Molding News
Let’s “inject” some reality over the economic downturn in China: the world’s second largest economy is still hungry for automobiles and plastic-packaged goods, period. Ditto for India and Japan, all of which is driving the growth of the injection molding machine market in Asia. In fact, if current trends continue, the overall plastic injection molding…
Filed Under:All-Electric Molding
A long, long time ago (OK, not that long ago, really — 2001), our CEO, Al Zoller, bought the company that he would eventually rename AdvanTech four years later. The company’s original building, home to the former Plasticraft tool shop, covers 27,000 ft. and is more than 70 years old. Over the years, it’s been upgraded…
Filed Under:Plastic Caps and Closures , Uncategorized
In its May 2016 issue, Plastics Technology turns the spotlight on our CEO, Al Zoller, and our new liner-less one-piece injection molded cap for carbonated soft drinks, bottled water and other beverages! The article quotes Al at length as it highlights the coming explosive growth of this revolutionary new beverage bottle cap, which was invented…
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Believe it or not, sales of bottled water is set to overtake sales of carbonated soft drinks by late this year, or early next year, industry observers say. This despite the fact that bottled water is about as “un-green” as you can get.Why, you ask? Oh, don’t get us started… but OK, let’s get started:…
Filed Under:Plastic food packaging & beverage packaging
Manufacturing is all about reducing complexity. After all, if you can remove a step from the process, wouldn’t that save time and (of course) money? The big question is, (also, of course)”how”? Enter “in-mold labeling,” which is the process of applying labels to plastic-injection molded products like containers or bottles during the manufacturing process. In-mold labeling,…
Filed Under:Plastic Injection Molding Methods , Uncategorized
Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, cars were made out of three materials: metal, metal and more metal. OK, that’s something of a hyperbole but not much — automobiles of the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s were renowned for their lavish use of sheet metal — “acres and acres” of it, as…
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They are the perfect employee: fast, productive and salary-free. And they never need to take a break (unless they break!) Of course, we’re talking robots. And, while they aren’t new to plastic injection molding, they’re certainly getting more and more ink. For good reason. But first, a little robotic history… Cartesian or linear robots, sometimes…
Filed Under:Plastic Injection Molding Equipment , Uncategorized