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Quick! Name that thermoplastic elastomer
We often receive inquiries about elastomeric materials. Questions often pertain to the type of elastomer required; and it’s hard to provide a definitive answer. People in our industry have a difficult time describing a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE). Essentially, there are many types and acronyms used—and they’re not often accurate. True elastomers are products that when ...
StackTeck acquires Matrix Technology
Brampton, Ont.—Injection mold manufacturer StackTeck Inc. has acquired Matrix Technology Specialists, based in Hong Kong. The new company, StackTeck Matrix Systems, will have operations in Toronto, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Matrix, a fast-growing company founded in 2007 by a team of industry specialists, is focused on integrated solutions that can ...
Exploiting the niches with PET
For anyone seeking rays of hope in a slow market, custom PET blow moulding is a good area to explore. The interesting area these days is the smaller, custom moulding work. Profits on high-volume containers such as soft-drink or water bottles are squeezed very tightly these days, which explains why large PET systems keep moving ...
Injection Moulding
GreenCore Composites strikes supplier deal
Optima Colour to distribute GreenCore’s natural fiber composites
Teknor launches rigid PVC compounds
New grades for packaging, furniture components, pipe fittings, medical devices
New nucleating agent for plastics packaging
For high-density polyethylene in blown film, extrusion blow molding and injection molding
More Output, Less Energy
Left: Ferromatik Milacron’s Cube concept. With all the attention paid to low sales of injection moulding machines, the energy-saving innovations have been overlooked. But the presses being sold are going to customers who appreciate improvements in energy conservation, and who see this as more effective for managing costs than used-press price tags. In packaging and ...
IPL reports increased earnings for 2009
Injection and extrusion moulding company IPL Inc., Saint-Damien, QC, has reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and 2009 fiscal year-end. The company had consolidated sales of $197.9 million in 2009, a 4.5 per cent increase compared with $189.4 million in 2008. The company’s EBITDA was $21.9 million, a margin of 11.1 per cent ...
New acrylic process wins award
The CoverForm process, a joint development by KraussMaffei and Evonik Industries won a ‘Best of’ award at the Materialica trade show in Munich last month. It took the award in the category Surface and Technology for its combination of material, engineering and design.CoverForm is a surface coating process whereby a thin, functional coating is applied ...
System monitors entire injection process
Visitors to the Canadian Pavilion at NPE2009 encountered a new supplier of injection moulding monitoring systems. DAQMould (Cambridge, Ont.), owned and managed by Detlev Wasserka, has a system that evaluates the injection moulding process and optimises each separate area in order to achieve the highest performance, quality and process repeatability. “This will go onto any ...
Engel offers rebates for scrapping old presses
Engel North America is offering $5,000 to injection moulders that are willing to scrap an old machine and buy a new one. Company president Steve Braig says provided his company sees proof the old press has been decommissioned, it will offer this amount as a rebate on a new machine.“In these economically challenging times, maximising ...
Husky maintains investment spending
Husky Injection Molding Systems (Bolton, Ont.) is continuing to invest in innovation, despite the recession and its change of ownership in the past two years. Company president John Galt told a press conference at NPE2009, “We continue to spend $35-million a year on R&D. And we are doing some true research on the process of ...
Sacmi acquires all of Negri Bossi
Following long months of bids and negotiations, HPS, the Italian holding company of its parent Sacmi Group, has acquired 95 percent of its share capital of the injection moulding machine producer. This grants HPS the right to take it fully private by acquiring all remaining shares.Sacmi can now complete the full restructuring at Negri Bossi ...
Milacron enters Chapter 11
Injection moulding machinery supplier Milacron (Batavia, Ohio) has agreed to be bought by Avenue Capital Group and DDJ Capital Management LLC, which together hold approximately 78 percent of the company’s 11½ percent Senior Notes. This is occurring in connection with a comprehensive financial restructuring of the company under Chapter 11 of US bankruptcy legislation.Milacron has ...
Husky closing large tonnage facility
Husky Injection Molding Systems (Bolton, Ont.) is ending production of large-tonnage injection moulding machines at its plant in Dudelange, Luxembourg. The company describes the move as a last step in its exiting the large-tonnage machine business, to focus on smaller presses for packaging and PET preforms.www.husky.ca
Seven-year project develops PUR boat hulls
Quebec injection moulder Camoplast, working with Bayer MaterialScience and KraussMaffei, has developed Camoplast Long Fiber, a process that produces large parts using a long fibre injection (LFI) process. The first application is the hull of a personal watercraft (PWC) that will hit the market this summer. PWC hulls were previously made from glass fibre-reinforced polyester ...
PM Plastics moves into hybrid auto batteries
PM Plastics Ltd. (Windsor, Ont.) is investing $3.8-million in a project to make battery components for hybrid vehicles. The five-year plan for this involves buying new injection moulding machines, aided by a $563,000 grant from Ontario’s Next Generation of Jobs Fund. PM Plastics expects to create 42 jobs over the five years of the program.PM ...
System suits mirco-parts
The micro-moulding field is growing, thanks to expanding interest in injection moulding of medical and electronic components. While this often puts the emphasis on the moulding machine or the mould, efficient melt conveying systems that can handle small parts are also a vital part of the chain of production components.D-M-E Co. (Madison Heights, Mich.) used ...