Recently added articles from Plastics Engineering:
SPE and social networking.(From SPE)
Oct 01, 2009; ... During these difficult times, organizations are looking at every possible means to enhance their membership-recruitment efforts and reach more people through online venues. Social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, are regularly described in the press and in marketing seminars ...
NPE exhibitors tout sustainability: a good way to describe last June's NPE2009 might be "the big show with a small footprint." The overriding theme for most exhibitors at NPE was sustainability, as demonstrated by the innovations in all market sectors that reduce the cost and use of resources in product development, manufacturing, and disposal--in other words, decreasing the size of the "carbon footprint.".(National Plastics Exposition)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Sustainability is especially important because it affects the buying preferences of consumers, the industry's ultimate end-users. OEMs and their suppliers--resin producers, equipment builders, moldmakers, and processors--are striving to convince consumers that the use of plastics helps ...
Primary processing machinery: latest equipment promises processors increased throughput, savings, quality.(Cover story)
Oct 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many manufacturers of primary processing equipment took advantage of the vast NPE2009 tradeshow in June to introduce new machinery to the global plastics industry. Injection presses turned out thousands of plastic parts in the halls of McCormick Place in ...
Industry patents.
Oct 01, 2009; ... The patent is a legal document giving the holder a license to capitalize on the invention without competition for a few years. In exchange, the holder teaches the basis of the invention Wear-Resistant Extruder Screw U.S. Patent 7,513,676 (April 7, 2009), "Extruder ...
Energy-saving tip of the month #5.(Brief article)
Oct 01, 2009; ... Assessing Performance: Electricity In most plastics processing, electricity is the main energy source. Electricity use is not, as is sometimes thought, fixed and uncontrollable; it is variable and controllable. For most sites, the electricity use will be directly related to the ...