Coca-Cola se une a Bill Nye para desmitificar el reciclaje de plásticos

Ángela Andrea Castro | Plastics Technology México

Producido por los galardonados animadores Mackinnon & Saunders, el cortometraje de Coca-Cola ofrece un completo recorrido por el proceso del reciclaje de botella a botella.

Enhance Your Moldmaking Capabilities With These Hot Runner and Mold Component Products

Chris Pasion | MoldMaking Technology

MMT highlights new and improved innovations, including data collection devices, pins, bases, controllers, bushings, nozzles, positioning systems and much more.

Must-have capabilities in a large-format additive manufacturing machine

| CompositesWorld

Thermwood’s Large-Scale Additive Manufacturing (LSAM) system comes equipped with many features that make fabrication of large fiber-reinforced polymer parts and structures fast, efficient and accurate.

AkzoNobel lanza una nueva línea de recubrimientos en polvo

Chris Pasion | Products Finishing México

La nueva gama está diseñada para satisfacer un amplio conjunto de necesidades de aplicación en diversos mercados de recubrimientos, incluidos el automotriz, arquitectónico, funcional e industrial.

Jaw Boring Rings Provide Uniform Pressure

Jenny Rush | Modern Machine Shop

Jaw forming rings from Dillon are designed to enable a consistent bore on large-diameter chucks.

ECOAT22 Brewer Award Winners Announced

Scott Francis | Products Finishing

The Electrocoating Association recognizes Brewer Award winners for 2022, as well as previous award winners at ECOAT22. 

Improving Productivity Through Good Racking Design

| Products Finishing

Industrial finishing line consultant Dan Davitz offers ideas for optimizing and managing your racking procedures to improve productivity. 

Open Surface Tanks Present a Huge Opportunity to be Efficient — or Not

| Products Finishing

Considerations for the ventilation of metal finishing tanks.

How Large-Format 3D Printing Supports Micro-Scale Hydropower

Stephanie Hendrixson | Additive Manufacturing

There is potential hydroelectric power that has never been unlocked because of the difficulty in capturing it. At Cadens, additive manufacturing is the key to customizing micro-scale water turbine systems to generate electricity from smaller dams and waterways.

AI Machine Monitoring Arrives from Google Cloud

Matthew Naitove | Plastics Technology

A new “end-to-end packaged solution” connects shop-floor machine monitoring to the cloud, with AI analytics to turn data into actionable knowledge.

One 5-Axis Tool Grinder With Flexible, Scalable Design

Angela Osborne | Production Machining

Multi-axis CNC tool grinding machine features a scalable, modular design, making it retrofittable with any option.

Senior Level Appointments Support ModuleWorks Digital Future

Jenny Rush | Modern Machine Shop

ModuleWorks added new heads of business development as well as new heads of technology in key business segments.

Nissan invertirá más de 700 millones de dólares en México

| Modern Machine Shop México

La inversión tiene como objetivo mejorar las instalaciones de manufactura en su planta de Aguascalientes, así como realizar mejoras de automatización.

Software de impresión de Velo3D soporta piezas más grandes

| Modern Machine Shop México

La última versión del programa de software de preparación de impresiones Flow. Flow 3.0, de Velo3D, soporta modelos de piezas más grandes.

Most-Read Articles on Plastics Technology April 2022

| Plastics Technology

From resin pricing and irritating packaging to maximizing purging efficiency, getting rid of bubbles and how to set up mold protect—here are the top 10 most-read articles for April.

Buckle Up for Texas

| Additive Manufacturing

AMT has hit the road again and in the second season of Road Trippin’ on IMTS+, Steve and his team explored the history of additive manufacturing with stops throughout Texas.

Hitachi Introduces New Plating, Coating Analysis Tool

Chris Pasion | Products Finishing

Hitachi’s FT230 reportedly speeds up analysis and reduces costly errors to help electronics and component-level manufacturers, general metal finishers and plating-on-plastic facilities achieve 100% inspection and meet tightening specifications.

Viable routes to recycling wind turbine blades found in NCC’s sustainable wind research program

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Launched SusWIND program aims to establish a viable circular supply chain to tackle the main challenges of legacy and future composite blades in the U.K.

President Biden to Announce Additive Manufacturing Initiative on Visit to Cincinnati

| Additive Manufacturing

President Joe Biden is set to announce AM Forward, an additive manufacturing initiative, during a visit at United Performance Metals in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Biden Highlights Manufacturing With Additive Initiative

| Modern Machine Shop

President Joe Biden is set to announce AM Forward, an additive manufacturing initiative, during a visit at United Performance Metals in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Embraer concludes sale of Portuguese manufacturing units to Aernnova

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Aernnova now owns and operates the Embraer Metálicas and Embraer Compósitos industrial units for approximately $174 million.

University of Nottingham commissions resin metering system for short fiber compression molding

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Slack & Parr’s precision external gear pumps enable the university’s EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub to precisely determine the fiber-to-resin ratio for their robot-mounted liquid resin spray system.  
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