Category Archives: North America

Fire In The Hole: Good News for Apple’s Prized Molding Material

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

Its expenses are rising. Its revenues are dropping. But the tide of red ink is not damping enthusiasm at what may be the most important breakthrough technology in [..]

Amorphous Metals, Design, Injection Molding, Metal Injection Molding (MIM), Metals, North America, Oil Country , ,

Owens Corning Sticks To Its Core DNA–Glass Composites

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

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 [..]

Automotive, Composites, Management, North America ,

Bemis, Milacron Team To Develop Servo Co-Injection

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

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 [..]

Automotive, Consumer Goods, North America, Two-Shot , ,

Baxter May Change the Equation For Small US Molders

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

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 [..]

Automation, Injection Molding, Management, North America , ,

Toray Plans Commercialization of Bio-PBT Molding Compound

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

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. [..]

Asia, Automotive, Bioplastics, Electronics, Green, Injection Molding, North America ,

Algae As A Bioplastic Feedstock: Is it Hype or Hope?

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

Algae continues to receive considerable hype as a potential feedstock for plastics as well as a biofuel. Most of the hype is coming from researchers, as well as [..]

Bioplastics, Green, North America

Will Apple Have To Bail Out Liquidmetal Technologies?

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

Injection molded amorphous metal is an ideal material for critical, precision components in Apple’s consumer electronics devices such as the iPhone and iPad. It’s extremely strong, has a [..]

Design, Metal Injection Molding, North America , ,

Carbon Composites Players Build Technology Positions

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

The big players continue to make moves to further develop their carbon composite manufacturing capabilities, signaling a growing future for the high-priced, light weighting material. This month, Toray [..]

Africa/MidEast, Automotive, Carbon Fiber, CFRP, Europe, North America, Resin Transfer Molding ,

High-Tech Plastics Star in Solar-Powered Cross-America Flight

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

Solar Impulse, a solar-powered plane loaded with innovative light weighting plastics technology, will attempt a flight across America in early May starting in San Francisco and reaching New [..]

Design, Green, North America ,

BASF Funds Major Plastics Research Project in the USA

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Doug Smock | Permalink 0

BASF, one of the leading technology developers in the less-than-100-year history of engineering plastics, is planting deep roots in the United States to advance its long-term research efforts. [..]

Alternative energy, Automotive, Europe, Injection Molding, Injection Molding, North America , , ,