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Minimization of Core Shift Enhances Part Quality
| MoldMaking Technology
The Mold-Master Symfill technology allows the melt to enter the nozzle runner channel from multiple sides, which has been proven to reduce barrel bow by up to 90%.
Gelest Expands Organosilane Antimicrobial Manufacturing,
Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology
The company’s upgrade is said to have led a dramatic improvement in efficiency and economies of scale.
Use 10-Point Checklist to Make Your Message Clear
| Gardner Web
The better you know the people in your audience, the easier it is to write well for them. Literally speak your audience’s language. Make your message clear, concise, consistent, and compelling.
#copywriting
Entry-Level Cylindrical Grinding Machine
| MoldMaking Technology
The Studer S100 is suitable for grinding geometrically defined basic forms and contours for a wide range of parts, all of which can be generated with the machine’s interpolating axes.
Datanomix's Analytics Solution Visualizes Shop Performance
Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop
Eastec 2023: The Automated Job Costing automatically matches part numbers in Datanomix to those from the ProShop ERP system and extracts specific target takt times.
Reinventing a Precision Shop With a Data-Driven Mindset
| Modern Machine Shop
When this machine shop lost 90% of its business within three months, a reinvention was in order. Here's how it survived after quickly falling on hard times.
Quick-Discharging Cone Blender
| Plastics Technology
Designed for laboratory testing, pilot plants or low volume blending of dry powders and granular materials.
Sistemas de inspección por partículas magnéticas y líquidos penetrantes
Ángela Andrea Castro | Modern Machine Shop México
FITMA: CGM Cigiemme (stand 1827) exhibirá la línea MT que incluye sistemas para la inspección de componentes siderúrgicos, ferroviarios, automotrices y aeroespaciales. También destacará sistemas de inspección por líquidos penetrantes (PT).
5 Sinker EDM Advancements
| MoldMaking Technology
Speed, machine design, software, artificial intelligence and automation help maximize sinker EDM productivity.
Mantle’s High-Precision Shaping for Automating Precision Toolmaking
Angela Osborne | Additive Manufacturing
The High-Precision Shaping feature expands the capabilities of Mantle’s hybrid metal 3D printing technology, enabling finer feature creation and dramatically expanding the geometries compatible with its TrueShape process.
Upgraded Collating System for Complex, Unstable Bottles
Matthew Naitove | Plastics Technology
Sidel has improved its Cermex ProSelex flexible collating system, which is now faster, more compact and easier to change over.
Polykemi celebra 55 años y abre una nueva subsidiaria en México
Marcela Castro | Plastics Technology México
Con su nueva oficina en México, el fabricante sueco de compuestos plásticos, Polykemi, atenderá al mercado local y regional.
CAINTRA lanza comisión de Educación Técnica en Nuevo León
| Modern Machine Shop México
El objetivo es contar con estrategias para subsanar la falta de personal técnico en el estado, así como promover la educación de carreras técnicas.
Custom Form Tools Reduce Cycle Times
Derek Korn | Production Machining
Eastec 2023: Schwanog offers form tool systems, producing individual tools in very small series. Batch sizes from 3 to 50 units can be produced at any time.
FITMA: Tecnología, capacitación técnica y networking para la industria
Mauricio Pineda | Modern Machine Shop México
FITMA 2023, exposición bienal de tecnología y manufactura de América Latina, que se llevará a cabo del 20 al 22 de junio en la Ciudad de México, fue presentada ante medios de comunicación.
PP Prices May Plunge, Others Are Mostly Flat
Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology
PP prices appear on the verge a major downward trajectory, with some potential of a modest downward path for others.
Fungi Makes Meal of Polypropylene
Lilli Manolis Sherman | Plastics Technology
University of Sydney researchers identify two strains of fungi that can biodegrade hard to recycle plastics like PP.
America Makes Announces Project Call for Process Qualification/Requalification Totaling $3.2M
Angela Osborne | Additive Manufacturing
Proposal submissions for the Demonstration of Novel Methods for Effective AM Process Qualification/Requalification – Delta Qualification project call are due by May 22.
Manufacturing Industry Optimistic Despite Market Challenges According to Study
| MoldMaking Technology
This study conducted by Harbour Results Inc. in February 2023 collected feedback from approximately 320 manufacturing facilities.
#economics
Poliésteres PBT y PET: la cristalinidad hace la diferencia
Michael Sepe | Plastics Technology México
Descubra las diferencias clave entre los poliésteres PBT y PET en términos de química, estructura y aplicaciones industriales.
Plastics Processing Contracted Again in March
Jan Schafer | Plastics Technology
Processing activity contracted for the ninth straight month, and at a faster rate.
#economics
PHA/PLA Blends for Coffee Pods Meet EU Compostability Specs
Matthew Naitove | Plastics Technology
Danimer Scientific and TotalEnergies Corbion collaborate on biopolymer blends that meet proposed EU compostability requirements for coffee pods and other plastic packaging.