Industry News Archive
Freiburg, Germany-based mold and automation systems maker Zahoransky Formenbau GmbH has developed a new technology which allows for assembling and cooling outside the mold, maximizing the time the mold is in use. “It’s all about saving cycle time,” says Michael Schmidt, managing director of
Mundelein, Ill.-based Commercial Plastics Co. has purchased the assets of Xten Industries LLC, a Kenosha, Wis.-based custom injection molder. The Xten Industries plant in Kenosha will continue business as normal, but the operation will be known as Commercial Plastics Kenosha LLC. All current Xten
Greensboro, North Carolina-based, Unifi Inc. has joined the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) as an official partner of UNC Athletics to promote recycling efforts among students, faculty, fans and alumni. UNC Athletics becomes the first collegiate athletics program to join Repreve’s #TurnItGreen movement.
Mold-Masters has signed an agreement with SES CC, a South African distribution agency. According to the hot runner technology supplier, the mutual strategy is to serve the growing local customer base with a dedicated sales and service office, offering the full range of Mold-Masters’
Nowadays in automotive design, lighting functions not only to provide illumination and signaling for the driver: it also more often than not contributes to the unique design of a vehicle. For the new Porsche Macan, lighting specialist Hella developed a completely new rear lighting
Machines didn’t get much smaller at IPF 2014 than the M4-3000 from Sodick. The three-tonne was on show molding components for mobile phones. Koichi Yokoyama, Deputy General Manager of Sodick’s Advanced Research Center said the machine is ideal for serving the mobile phone sector,
Initiatives on energy efficiency are harbinger to new sustainable technologies for injection moulding machine manufacturers. With VDMA having launched the Blue Competence in 2012 for sustainability in machinery, machine makers have taken up the initiative. But Angelica Buan also asks how relevant is it
CBW Automation Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of robots and advanced automation solutions focused on injection molding and thermoforming applications in the packaging and medical markets, took the Gold Award in the In-Mold Decorating Association’s recent parts competition for Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Go Cup. The
A $180 million expansion project by the Derjin Group of Taiwan has broken ground in China’s Jiangsu province. The new plant in Haimen will cover an area of 360,000 square meters. The first of three phases aims to start production by mid-2015, the company
Sidel, a global provider of liquid packaging solutions, recently launched the world’s first-ever pasteurisable lightweight PET bottle for beer with a non-petaloid base. The innovative bottle supports a crown cap, which together with the non-petaloid base gives the bottle the appearance of glass, but