Injection Molding: PET Preform Molding Machine Switches to Side Entry Netstal’s new PET-LINE has changed from top entry and post-mold cooling above the clamping unit to side entry and cooling ...

Freudenberg Medical (Beverly, Mass.) has appointed Mark Ostwald as its new CEO. Ostwald previously served as chief technology officer of the company and was part of its management board. Ostwald ...

A familiar name in the domestic blow molding machinery business has taken up a new post. Chuck Flammer is now VP of machine sales for Uniloy Inc., supporting U.S. and Canadian markets. Flammer has ...

The Society of Plastics Engineers’ (SPE) Extrusion Division is holding a conference in June focusing on processing optimization. The SPE Extrusion Optimization TopCon is slated for June 16-18 at the ...

Sepro Group has redesigned its robot line for injection molding machines with up to 900 tons of clamping force. Debuting at K 2025, the new S-Line robots will replace the three-axis S5 Line and ...

A cutting-edge processor of stretch films has recently collaborated with ExxonMobil to develop a new type of power pre-stretch (PPS) film it contends outperforms competing offerings. Last year, ...

Custom processor GaMra Composites has developed new profile extrusion technology for producing siding, window lineals, fencing and other products for the construction market. The new patent-pending ...

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 ...

This is the most challenging resin pricing column I’ve had to assemble, starting with the U.S. Supreme Court’s February ruling that invalidated most of President Trump’s broad emergency-based import ...

Pearlescence, haze, rocker bottoms, and top-load failure are common ills that can afflict PET bottles. Cures for all of these are readily available. An article in the December 2014 issue (Blow Molding ...

Vacuum conveying systems use a moving stream of air to pick up plastic material at a source and move it through a system of tubes to a selected destination. The speed and density at which the material ...

As one of the most important temperature zones in an injection molding process, the feed throat deserves more of your attention. Why? About 80% of the processes I work on have issues with feed-throat ...