Injection molding requires melting plastic, filing the mold with that hot plastic and then cooling the plastic that’s now in the mold’s cavities. Cooling is critical to optimizing the part and cycle ...

Instron released the AVE3 Advanced non-contacting video extensometer for strain measurement with micron-level accuracy for ...

Allegheny Performance Plastics, Leetsdale, Pennsylvania, has acquired Holbrook Tool and Molding Inc., a precision injection molding and tooling company based in Meadville, Pennsylvania, which is ...

At K 2025 Celanese presented its new digital assistant, Chemille, for material selection guidance. The platform delivers tailored material recommendations based on product properties, application ...

Next Generation Recycling (NGR) introduced the Eco-Twin 220 extruder at K 2025. The product is the latest conical co-rotating twin-screw extruder. Conical co-rotating twin-screw extruders are ...

Milliken & Co. announced the latest generation of its Millad clarifiers, the ClearX 9000 clarifier for polypropylene (PP) Milliken Starts Production of New PP Clarifier Plant. Millad ClearX 9000 was ...

The compact, lightweight SUR-120 by Surpass Industrial is easy to set up and portable for many on-site applications, according to PCS. The fully mechanical, oil-free pelletizer is designed to minimize ...

In our 2024 Top Shops injection molding benchmarking survey, Philip Katen of Plastikos talked about a “grind-it-out” phase for processors working out post-COVID inventory overcorrections. In 2025’s ...

Over the years, I’ve seen firsthand how evolving standards and increasing demands for precision are reshaping the way the plastics industry approaches melt-flow testing. The updates to ASTM D1238-23 ...

Dowsil 5-1050 PPA for film packaging.Dow Chemical Co. announced the launch of Dowsil 5-1050 Polymer Processing Aid (PPA), designed to address the growing demand for film packaging manufactured without ...

A pipe producer based in Egypt credits new extrusion technology from battenfeld-cincinnati with saving it more than $1 million in material costs to produce HDPE pipe in an outside diameter of nearly 9 ...

At K 2025, Progressive Components will introduce the latest version of its ProFile unified platform, which combines asset management, real-time data and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting from ...