The 10 parameters that design engineers must keep front of mind when designing parts are predicated on one simple method for ensuring perfect molded parts — partnering with your molder.
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The new 20,000-square-foot location in Ypsilanti, MI, brings together all of NSF’s plastics testing and certification capabilities, including advanced chemical and structural testing of plastic pipes, fittings and valves, PVC ingredients, and...
Companies are beginning to separate into three distinct strategic directions: Full survival mode, doing just okay and trying to hang on, and, for a few of them, seizing an opportunity with big potential rewards.
When I went camping as a child, we used to call gnats “no-see-ums” — too small to be seen, but they did bite. Which brings me to the no-see-ums inside an extruder, such as the thrust bearing: You can’t see it from the outside, but when it fails...
As suppliers of medical tubing seek to add capacity, Graham Engineering Corp. is accelerating support and delivery of its American Kuhne line of extrusion systems.
Do all that you can to retain your current employees. The cost of hiring and training when the economy rebounds is significant, certainly far greater than the cost of keeping your employees on the payroll for a couple of months.
A proprietary thermal insulation blanket for plastics processing equipment developed by Shannon Global Energy Solutions improves worker safety and reduces ambient heat.
To help plastics processors deal with the unprecedented challenge of keeping a business running during the COVID-19 pandemic, Asaclean-Sun Plastech Inc. will provide free technical support by phone and via online platforms.
The pandemic will end. Although we don’t know the exact date, I’m calling that the time when Stuff-Goes-Back-to-Normal, or SGBTN, Day. While we take our precautions, we must simultaneously be preparing for what comes after.
