Progressive Components, Wauconda, Illinois, has announced the release of CADalog® v14, a streamlined CAD offering for designers of injection molds. Progressive’s CADalog aims to reduce redundant mold design tasks and is available in industry-standard formats for SolidWorks, NX, VISI, Parasolid, ACIS and IGES. The CADalog is available for free either online or via a flash … [Read more...] about Progressive Components Launches Configurable CADalog
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Plastikos Wins North America RJG Mold Smart Award
RJG, Inc., Traverse City, Michigan, has announced that Plastikos is the North American winner of the first RJG Mold Smart Award. The Mold Smart Award celebrates injection molding companies that have fully committed to improving the quality of its products, lives and the world by implementing a variety of RJG solutions. RJG is presenting one award in each of its global … [Read more...] about Plastikos Wins North America RJG Mold Smart Award
LS Mtron Introduces AI-Based Smart Injection Molding System
LS Mtron Injection Molding Machines, Peachtree Corners, Georgia, has introduced an artificial intelligence-based Smart Injection System. The new technology features two systems – the AI Molding Assistant and Smart Weight Control. The AI Molding Assistant is a condition derivation system that dramatically reduces the time for stabilizing the initial molding setup process by … [Read more...] about LS Mtron Introduces AI-Based Smart Injection Molding System
Research into Sugar-Based Plastics Shows Shape of Things to Come
Researchers at the University of Birmingham in the UK, and Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, have described the strength and toughness of novel polymers made from sugars, and the chemistry underpinning their characteristics, in a study published in Angew Chemie. The study examined two polymers based on isosorbide and isomannide that produced by a recently disclosed … [Read more...] about Research into Sugar-Based Plastics Shows Shape of Things to Come
Two Injection Molding Veterans Discuss Machine Guarding
Knowing that "safety first" is top of mind for plastics manufacturers, Plastics Business recently spoke with two injection molding machine, extrusion machine and auxiliary machine manufacturing veterans from Cincinnati, Ohio-based Milacron about some of the basics of machine, robotics and auxiliary guarding. Larry Keller, director of engineering, Milacron, and a member of … [Read more...] about Two Injection Molding Veterans Discuss Machine Guarding