Plastic is abundant in business and everyday life. You find it as product components, packaging and even in the containers used to ship products. For businesses interested in manufacturing or ...

Purging the blow molding machine on the shop floor will ensure efficient performance and a better end product. While there are some differences between standard and custom blow molders, the blow ...

“Discover, engineer, build” is an apt slogan for Virtual Engineering Days, scheduled for June 15 to 17, 2021. While the virtual event caters to manufacturing professionals and engineers across a ...

Extrusion and injection molding are the most important conversion techniques used by the thermoplastics processing industry. Certain factors need to be considered before a thermoplastics material is ...

This laboratory introduces students to the plastics manufacturing processes of twin screw extrusion, film extrusion, tube extrusion, and injection molding process monitoring. Experiments are designed ...

Bemis Manufacturing, Sheboygan Falls, Wis., has been a component partner with OEMs as well as a manufacturer of commercial products, including toilet seats and medical devices, for more than 100 years ...

The plastic lifecycle currently emits more than 0.85 gigatons of greenhouse gases. If current plastic production and consumption patterns continue, emissions could reach 1.34 gigatons per year by 2050 ...

In this interview, AZoMaterials speaks with Dr. Annika Völp, Process Application Specialist at Thermo Fisher Scientific, about the role of extrusion in mechanical recycling of degraded plastic waste - ...