Packaging
New EDM Pushes Performance and Precision
“This machine has changed wire EDM in a way that the machines I’ve operated have not been able to do, because it cuts substantially faster than its predecessors, yet it consumes about 40 percent less wire.”
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It’s Time to Reevaluate Co-Injection Technology
With the development of new resins, hot runners and controls technology, co-injection is positioned to move from a niche market application to mainstream acceptance in the upcoming years.
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Aerospace & Packaging
Production of Aerospace Products and Parts is Accelerating; Plastics Packaging Demand Will Exceed Growth in the Overall Economy
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Advanced Prototyping for Threaded Parts
A look at a modular tooling standard designed to help cost effectively develop caps and closures to be either stripped out of the mold or use a collapsible core.
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End Market Report: Aerospace/Defense & Packaging
Plastics Packaging Outlook: Moderate Growth in 2012, and Aerospace/Defense Spending Outlook.
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Diverse Mold Offerings Sustain Moldmaker, Secures Future Business
Pelco Tool & Mold, Inc. (Glendale Heights, IL)—a producer of close-tolerance, high-quality tools for the closure, food and beverage, personal care, and medical industries—designs and builds a plethora of molds, including, single face and stack, rotating ratchet ring (RRR), conventional unscrewing, strip, side-action, collapsible core, compression, front-loaded core, insert and prototype.
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Internally Heated Hot Runner Nozzles: Leak-Free Performance for More Profitable Production
Case Study, Hot Runners, Packaging
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Case Study, Software, Consumer Packaging: Enhance Your Quoting Process
The right scheduling solution allows for an effective quotation process.
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Social Networking, Industry Participation Keys to Moldmaker’s Success
Industrial Mold & Machine (IMM; Twinsburg, OH) considers itself fairly diverse. A majority of the company’s work is smaller molds (under 400 tons) in industries like appliance, computer/business equipment, electronics, lawn and garden, marine, medical/optical/dental, telecommunications and toys.
Read MoreHow to Return Manufacturing Jobs to the U.S.: Experts Give Details at Boothroyd Dewhurst DFMA Forum
The good news is that increasingly savvy manufacturers are able to root out troublesome costs and problems from their products earlier and earlier in a lifecycle that starts even before a computer model is created—and ends with finished automobiles, appliances and other goods.
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