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Category Archives: Primary machinery
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 [..]
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 [..]
BASF Funds Major Plastics Research Project in the USA
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. [..]
Moldable Compound Consists Mostly Of Tire Waste
A new German company called Ruhr Compounds is commercializing a compound made up as much as 80% waste from tires and other discarded rubber products. A polypropylene matrix [..]
Impressive Approach Enables Multi-Function Car Sensor
An amazing amount of injection molding technology goes into a combined rain, light and moisture sensor integrated into the rear view mirror bracket on the windshield of a [..]
Faurecia Bets On Bio-PBS For Automotive Interiors
Tier I auto giant Faurecia and Mitsubishi Chemical of Japan are joining forces to develop a bioplastic that can be used in mass production automotive interior parts. The [..]
TenCate, BASF Join Forces To Advance Moldable Composites
Interest in developing high-volume composite production systems for automotive applications continues to grow. Plasan’s development of an out-of-autoclave system was an attention getter. Now comes a strategic alliance [..]
Long-Glass Molded PP Replaces Welded Steel Kia Seat Frame
The Hyundai Motor Group is replacing a spot-welded steel structure with a one-shot plastic composite in the rear seat cushion frame in the Kia K9 luxury sedan, which [..]
First Product Emerges from Dreamliner CFRP Scrap
Production of carbon composites for aircraft production creates a large amount of scrap—expensive scrap because of the high content of carbon fiber. A Boeing engineer says that more [..]