Equipment

Munson Machinery Co. has a new screen classifying cutter model that is designed for flexible conveyor or manual loading and downsizing of diverse materials.

Weber Fibertech, a specialist in long fiber-reinforced thermoplastic parts, has partnered with KraussMaffei and a pair of former professional cyclists to produce a safe, sustainable children’s bicycle via the injection molding of nylon 6 reinforced with 40 percent recycled carbon fibers. They call it “a groundbreaking new and resource-saving material mix in the bicycle industry.”

Top honors go to Polyformer, a homemade machine that turns PET bottles into 3D filaments.

Yankang Plastic Machinery touts machines making 20,000-liter water tanks.

New patent suggests that using spring-loaded pistons can better control parison consistency in extrusion blow molding applications.

Report credits the economy of collaborative robots, safety and easy programming for the surge.

Companies develop first blow molded SUV bumper with park-assist sensors.

AVK, the Frankfurt, Germany-based Federation of Reinforced Plastics, named sensXPERT winner of its 2022 Innovation award for the Digital Mold process sensor system it developed. The company is part of Netzsch Process Intelligence GmbH, of Selb, Germany. (U.S. office is…

One of the new products that Wittmann Battenfeld planned to feature NPE this year before it was cancelled, is a system that integrates a small granulator, the G-Max 9, with a low-tonnage injection machine for press-side grinding of scrap and…

Granulators are low-tech outliers in the factory of the future, but advanced controls will make them more effective

Engel’s new two-stage process plasticizes recycled flake, increasing circularity and reducing CO2 emissions

Raising the bar of extrusion quality and efficiency requires controlling the variables  Maximizing the precision of process operations is a growing issue in many production operations. The digital age, and especially Industry 4.0, is generating an array of advanced capabilities…