Funding for building out advanced materials and polymers hub to be disbursed over the next decade.

Examine your purge pile for specks and uneven color distribution. If there are random specks in the pile as shown here, then your streaks are likely being caused by the screw and barrel. Photos: ...

In a previous article, we briefly discussed the influence of time as the second important factor in the mechanical response of polymers. The flip side of time is strain rate. The rate of loading for a ...

Deisgned for profile and tubing applications, Guill Tool & Engineering ’s Unicam crosshead combines two of the company’s established technologies: the Single-Point concentricity adjustment system and ...

PCS Company is partnering with Poland’s FADO Group to distribute that company’s CoolingCare Systems mold-channel cleaning equipment in North America. CoolingCare Systems enable operators to connect a ...

Xaloy has acquired Maxi Melt in a move that combines two suppliers of screws, barrels and other plasticizing components for extrusion and injection molding. Xaloy says the move expands its ...

An optional dust plenum consisting of a hollow hopper rim vented to a plant dust collection system provides a secondary dust containment measure. Compared with reusable bags, many of which are ...

Founded in 1922, Anton Paar is a world leader in the measurement of density and concentration, the determination of dissolved carbon dioxide, and in the fields of rheometry and viscometry. Anton ...

The Ultra Cool GEN3 features what Reifenhäuser calls a unique IBC stack. Designed specifically for the new three- and five-layer die head, it’s also available as an upgrade for existing systems. Film ...

Historically, lengthy computation times created bottlenecks, limiting the number of design variations engineers can practically explore during the development process. The Cadmould AI Solver removes ...

Saying its design is based on decades of field experience with valve gating and material delivery technology in thermoplastic hot runners, Husky has launched a cold deck system for injection molding ...

Molded-in color is an advantage of polymer materials. Photo: Avient When enumerating the advantages of using plastics over other materials such as metals, ceramics, and wood, one of the items that ...