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Author Archives: Doug Smock
Bayer Exits Highly Hyped Carbon Nanotubes Business
What’s the future of nano carbon nanotubes? Not as much as once believed, apparently, based on a decision just announced by Bayer Material Science to exit the business [..]
Owens Corning Sticks To Its Core DNA–Glass Composites
Owens Corning, the Ohio-based producer of glass fiber, is a giant in the plastics industry, having virtually invented the composites business. One example was its involvement in the [..]
Engel Reports Strong IMM Sales Improvement In North America
There’s new information to affirm positive growth for the American injection machinery industry, which was almost left for dead two or three year ago. From the bottom of [..]
GE Aviation Advances Use of Lightweight CFRP Engine Parts
General Electric was a pioneer in the development of the commercial plastics industry and then decided to sell its plastics unit to SABIC in 2007. But now comes [..]
Plastics Engineering 101: Never Assume Anything
After 27 years of writing about plastics, the disconnect between engineering and sales still amazes me. It comes to mind now because of an interesting research paper presented [..]
US Molding Machinery Manufacturing Makes A Modest Comeback
In the early days of injection molding, say the 1950s through the early 1970s, the United States was largely self-sufficient in the supply of injection molding machinery. William [..]
Bemis, Milacron Team To Develop Servo Co-Injection
The efficiencies of co-injection molding and servo pumps are combining in a unique hybrid machine developed by Milacron (Batavia, Ohio) for Bemis Manufacturing, one of America’s largest injection [..]
Baxter May Change the Equation For Small US Molders
Visit a high-tech molder anywhere in the world and you will see sophisticated robots in every work cell. That’s particularly true in the United States and Europe where [..]
Toray Plans Commercialization of Bio-PBT Molding Compound
An injection molding plastic made with renewable feedstocks generated by a genetically engineered microorganism is being sampled as a prelude to mass production by Japanese chemical giant Toray. [..]