Founded in 1937, the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) is the trade association representing the third largest manufacturing industry in the United States.
A roundtable of machine tool suppliers reviews the advancements in machining technologies that push machining and tooling to their limits—and can kick every moldmaker’s capability up a notch.
The next generation of the Tie-Not balloon tying device—developed, designed, prototyped and molded by a mold base shop owner and his wife—posed many challenges due to the complexity of the mold design.
Levent Uzkan, President of Flavor Shakes, needed a more efficient way to mold the caps to the jars the company produces, so he turned to collapsible core technology.