Lightweight parts, energy-saving processing or combining several process steps into one. It can all be summarized under one buzzword: sustainability. A technology that is highly promising is ...

The molding machine has vital elements to promote the correct formation of parts from the plastic. These parts include hopper, barrel, screw, heaters, movable platen, nozzle, mold, and mold cavity. In ...

Reaction-injection molding has become a premier polyurethanemolding process that offers automotive engineers versatility in the materials used to produce high-quality, highly styled parts.

The awards represented a melting pot of 14 processing technologies, including coinjection, straight injection, and reaction injection molding. Structural foam molding was the contest's most popular ...

A polypropylene (PP) grade with 20% short glass fiber reinforcement has been applied in a structural foam injection molding process (SFIM) to mold a dashboard carrier and air ducts in the FAW-VW Golf ...

Lanxess, a glass fiber manufacturers, is seeing a marked growth in demand for its milled short glass fibers (milled fiber) for plastic compounding, but not only. This is particularly true for the ...