Recently added articles from Plastics Technology:
Datebook.(Calendar)
Aug 01, 2008 ... AUGUST 18-20 * EXTRUSION OF ENGINEERING PLASTICS SEMINAR Society of Plastics Engineers, Hilton Mystic, Mystic, CT (203-775-0471) 19-20 * WEB HANDLING 1 SEMINAR: UNDERSTANDING WEB HANDLING SYSTEMS Seminars for Engineers, Hilton Garden Inn ...
Ready to get serious about energy efficiency?(editorial)
Aug 01, 2008; Naitove, Matt ... Once upon a time, it was hard to get plastics processors to give more than lip service to the idea of conserving energy in their plants. I think it's safe to say that those times are gone for good. It's still true that energy cost represents only 4% to 5% of total processing costs, but the ...
Wittmann Battenfeld revamps and expands press lines.(keeping up: injection molding)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Several new machinery developments follow the recent purchase of Battenfeld by Wittmann. The new Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH division is based in Kottingbrunn, Austria. Wittmann Battenfeld retains a technical center in South Elgin, Ill., and injection presses and work-cells with robots and ...
Hot-runner mold inserts offer cooling enhancement.(keeping up: injection molding)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Improved cavity filling and cooling are the aims of a new line of inserts for hot runners that are made by "selected laser melting" (SLM) of H-13 steel powders. Developed by HRS-Flow HotRunner Technology in Italy (represented here by HRS Hot Runner System ...
High-speed, two-stage press for precision thin-wall parts.(keeping up: injection molding)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A new machine capable of injection speeds of 1500 mm/sec or 60 in./sec expands the V-line of two-stage plunger injection presses from Sodick Plustech Co. of Japan, represented here by Plustech Inc., Schaumburg, Ill. Designed for high-precision, thin-wall applications, the new 154-ton ...
Monster press is an energy miser.(keeping up: injection molding)
Aug 01, 2008 ... The largest injection press made to date by Engel in Austria (U.S. office in York, Pa.) is molding 6500-liter underground tanks at Otto Graf in Teningen, Germany, and is doing it with extremely low energy consumption. The tank is molded in two half-shells on a Engel duo 5500-metric-ton ...
New gas-assist components.(keeping up: injection moulding)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A new line of Separate pressure generators, high-pressure compressors, and gas controllers, which can be combined into a system that grows as the customer's business expands, comes from Gain Technologies, Shelby Township, Mich. The company offers ks new Pressure Swing Absorption nitrogen ...
Hot-runner controller for up to 256 zones.(keeping up: injection molding)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A new hot-runner temperature controller for six to 256 zones was unveiled at the recent Chinaplas show in Shanghai by Yudo Co. Ltd. of Korea (U.S. office in Plain City, Ohio) ....
Higher speeds for double-shot machines.(keeping up: injection moulding)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Cycle-time reductions from faster clamp movements and mold-plate rotation, as well as improved cooling, are Claimed for two new models in the SEHS-CI all-electric double shot line from Sumitomo Heavy Industries in Japan, represented here by Sumitomo Plastics-Machinery, Norcross, Ga. The ...
23-ft-wide blown film.(keeping up: extrusion)
Aug 01, 2008 ... It's the widest blown film line ever built, according to Gloucester Engineering Co., Gloucester, Mass., which shipped the system earlier this year to make geomembranes. The line has an 86-in.-diam. die, capable of producing geomembrane liners 0.5 to 2.5 mm thick and up to 23 ft wide. The ...
Pipe die has internal air-cooling.(keeping up: extrusion)
Aug 01, 2008 ... The new Maxflexx pipe die from Inoex GmbH in Germany (U.S. office in Lancaster, Pa.) cools a pipe with internal air cooling. According to the patent application (U.S. 20080131542, June 5, 2008) there is at least one vortex chamber in the mandrel, which has a cooling-air outlet facing ...
High-efficiency barrel heating and cooling.(keeping up: extrusion)
Aug 01, 2008 ... The Servtek TCS (Thermal Control Solution) radiant barrel heating/cooling system, developed by Rex Materials Group, Fowlerville, Mich., and distributed exclusively for plastics by Cincinnati Milacron in Batavia, Ohio, is said to bring energy savings of 30% to 50%, to both extrusion and ...
Italian bubble-wrap machines come here.(keeping up: extrusion)
Aug 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Torninova Srl, an Italian maker of dies and downstream equipment for extruding bubble wrap, recently opened an office in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. Torninova also introduced a three-extruder, five-layer coex bubble-wrap line, making an ABCBA barrier structure for ...
Web inspection for wider sheet.(keeping up: extrusion)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Two suppliers of camera arrays for automatic sheet/film inspection and defect control recently delivered their widest arrays ever. I2s Line Scan in France (U.S. office in Orange, Conn.) delivered two systems in the past year for 300-in.-wide webs, one to Asia, the other to the U.S. Each ...
Tiny, low-priced camera for Web inspection.(keeping up: extrusion)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A tiny new line-scan camera for non-patterned web inspection requires a fraction of the space and cost of most web-inspection cameras. Web-i from Webview Inc., Santa Rosa, Calif., measures only 3.8 x 3.7 x 3.5 in. and weighs just 2 lb. It includes Windows-based software ...
Focused laser makes micro perforations.(keeping up: extrusion)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A new focused laser perforator can create an easy-opening seam in thin film that is invisible to the eye. The seam is made of 30- to 40-micron holes, roughly half the size of typical laser perforations. Jenoptik Automatisierungstechnik GmbH in Germany developed a new laser perforating head ...
Tri-screen control panel shows more data.(keeping up: extrusion)
Aug 01, 2008 ... The second generation of Titan and Titan Plus computer controls, introduced in July by PTi Processing Technologies LLC in Aurora, Ill., distributes operator information over three screens simultaneously and also distributes the computing power behind them. The left and right panels connect ...
Stretch-blow molders provide higher output.(keeping up: blow molding)
Aug 01, 2008 ... New all-electric stretch-blow molding machines from W. Amsler Equipment Inc., Richmond Hill, Ont., provide greater output and increased flexibility in production of PET water bottles. These linear models include the Lh1.5, a 5-cavity unit that makes bottles from 50 cc to 1.5L at up to 8500 ...
High-speed FFS line for ultralight PET bottles.(keeping up: blow molding)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Sidel Inc., Norcross, Ca., has introduced the FlexLine system for high-speed form/ fill/seal production of ultralight PET bottles. The reheat stretch-blow system was developed for Sidel's NoBottle design, which provides flexibility and shape memory so that bottles spring back to their ...
PC sheet for aircraft interiors.(keeping up: thermoforming)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Kleerdex Co., Bloomburg, Pa., has introduced its first thermoformable polycarbonate sheet for aircraft interiors. Kydex FST sheet is made from Lexan FST9705 PC resin from SABIC Innovative Plastics, Pittsfield, Mass. It reportedly meets FAR 25.8.53 (a1i and a1ii), ...