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

What’s more October-y than pumpkin spice? How about the K show, EPR, resin pricing, date stamps and tandem foam sheet extrusion, among other popular PT reads.

Combining KraussMaffei's FiberForm and ColorForm technologies, you can take complex metal parts requiring multi-step, labor-intensive processing and convert them into a single-cell composite solution, ...

Combining KraussMaffei's FiberForm and ColorForm technologies, you can take complex metal parts requiring multi-step, labor-intensive processing and convert them into a single-cell composite solution, ...

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 ...

Wood-plastic composite (WPC) products were first widely marketed in the early 1990s as weather-resistant decking. The product concept has evolved rapidly into railing, fencing, trim, automotive parts, ...

The intensification ratio is equal to the ratio of the effective areas of the hydraulic ram to that of the screw check valve. Since those values often are not readily available, the intensification ...

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 ...

Knowing that customer requirements change continuously and output improvements are always being pursued, operating people nowadays tend to recommend a much larger extruder than what’s really necessary ...

The MultiRESN twin-screw extruder from Processing Technologies LLC (PTi) features improvements that have been implemented over time to meet industry demands and processing capabilities. The twin-screw ...

I started in this industry back in 1994 at Cherry Electrical Products in its Control Device injection molding division as a third-shift machine operator. The title operator was stretching it a bit.

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 ...