TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy Partner on U.S. Advanced Recycling Project

Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology

New Hope Energy will build the plant that will transform end-of-life plastic waste into a recycled feedstock that Total Energies will purchase and convert into virgin-quality polymers.

Rotational Viscometer Offers Precise Measurement Results

Chris Pasion | Products Finishing

BYK-Gardner GmbH’s Byko-Visc RT line can measure viscosity from a near water-like, very high viscosity to even the most viscous epoxies, sealants and pastes.

How to Protect Soft Base Materials

| MoldMaking Technology

Choose a suitable mold coating to take the abuse and save your base material.

Product Line Expanded to Include Sprue Bushings and Heated Nozzles

| Plastics Technology

Spark Industries’ offerings now include integrally heated sprue bushings and machine nozzles.

Gates Corp Named Motion's 2021 Supplier of the Year

Jenny Rush | Modern Machine Shop

Motion Industries has named the Gates Corp as its 2021 Supplier of the Year, using its Supplier Stratification formula to narrow the candidates and select the winner.

Did I Make a Bad Hiring Mistake?

| Plastics Technology

The unspoken cues and habits of a group—the rules that break relationships at work.

Deep Hole Drilling Without Drift

Evan Doran | Modern Machine Shop

A deep hole drill with intuitive controls and minimal hole drift was one shop's pipe dream — until the shop helped a machine tool builder make it.

RATH prepares for production of advanced oxide ceramic fiber for CMC

Ginger Gardiner | CompositesWorld

New facility in Germany is part of regional supply chain and vision to lead green energy transition using CMC, supported by German government and Composites United’s Ceramic Composites network.

Elixir autoclave investment brings all aircraft production in-house

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The company now controls the entire production process for its aircraft, including the Elixir 915iS Turbo with a carbon fiber OneShot structure.

USAF, GE Additive 3D Print Out-of-Production Metal Parts

| Additive Manufacturing

The upcoming final phase of the Pacer Edge program is to establish the USAF’s own metal additive production infrastructure initially at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma.

El acopio, piedra angular para impulsar el reciclaje: Recicla Unicel

| Plastics Technology México

En el marco del Día Mundial del Reciclaje, la iniciativa Recicla Unicel llama a generar una cultura de corresponsabilidad para fomentar e impulsar el reciclaje en México.

Brueckner Group USA Moving to Bigger Space

Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology

New facility in New Hampshire will serve the local customer base better and enhance capabilities in the North American market.

ABB Robotics presenta el primer coche artístico pintado por robots

Scott Francis | Products Finishing México

La nueva tecnología PixelPaint de ABB se demuestra mediante la reproducción de obras de arte complejas para el exterior de un automóvil.

Reciclaje de plásticos se toma TikTok

Ángela Andrea Castro | Plastics Technology México

TikTok se ha convertido en una plataforma de divulgación sobre el correcto uso, disposición y recuperación del plástico. Aquí destacamos algunos de los contenidos más interesantes.

Araqev desarrolló un software de control de calidad para la manufactura aditiva

| Modern Machine Shop México

El software de control de calidad de Araqev ayuda a los usuarios finales a imprimir productos en solo unas pocas iteraciones de diseño, lo que conduce a menos material de desecho y tiempo de mecanizado.

Fast, Simple QC Method Directly Quantifies Recycled Content in Plastics

Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology

Novel fluorescence-based spin-out technology provides a rapid and reliable method to measure and certify recycled content in a wide range of plastics.

One-Coat Fire Protection for Structural Steels

Chris Pasion | Products Finishing

Humidur Char can be applied in one layer on minimum preparation standards, with no primer nor mesh required. The coating provide the essential passive fire protection on structural steel used in the global oil, gas and chemical industries.

Admatec’s Larger Integrated Binding/Sintering Furnace for Ceramic 3D Printing

| Additive Manufacturing

Company scales up for more efficient mass customization and serial ceramics 3D printing production lines.

CPT to Offer Mold-Handling Equipment

| Plastics Technology

Cincinnati Process Technologies (CPT) has partnered with German firm RUD (Aalen) to offer that company’s full line of mold-handling equipment in the U.S. and Canada.

ZF Group construirá un centro de investigación y desarrollo en Nuevo León

| Modern Machine Shop México

En el marco de la inauguración de su planta de manufactura en Nuevo León, ZF Group informó que inició la construcción de su primer Centro de I+D en México.

Nestlé, P&G y Walmart inauguran centro de reciclaje en el Estado de México

| Plastics Technology México

El Centro tendrá capacidad de recibir alrededor de 119 toneladas de residuos como PET, HDPE, aluminio y vidrio, para evitar que lleguen a rellenos sanitarios y aportar a la economía circular.

Collaborators Work on Subsurface Project for Cold Plate Manufacturing

| Additive Manufacturing

The project goal is to offer a new process head enabling CoreFlow on any CNC system via retrofit integration. In addition to the ability to alternate between milling and CoreFlow, the hybrid CNC will also feature optional subsurface inspection using the Ambit Wave ultrasonic inspection head developed by HMT.