Lovers of injection molding — and automation — will find manufacturing nirvana at NPE 2015, when the Orange County Convention Center becomes a giant, modern plastics factory for one week. The market ...

Machine and process troubleshooting are the most important factors in controlling process and reducing defects. Poorly performing presses lead to process variance and uncontrollable scrap events, and ...

Owens-Illinois Inc. is launching a pioneering effort to compression mold billions of preforms on proprietary equipment that the company said could lower production costs significantly. The project - ...

Preforms have been used for almost 80 years in infusion molding processes. For most of that history, however, the vast majority were made with chopped glass fibers directed over perforated metal forms ...

Interest in injection blowmolding machinery is rising as machine makers meet processors'' wishes for more machines able to process polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—the in-demand polymer for many ...

Adaptability has become an essential survival skill for brands and producers of all kinds. If you are considering the purchase of a PET preform injection molding system, how can you be sure that it ...