Plastics Processing

Axel Plastics Research Laboratories (Woodside, New York), reports the development of a new proprietary process aid additive targeted to those who process or mold PBT and PBT resin blends.

AXEL’s new additive was developed in response to increased use of high-performance polymer blends in the automotive, transportation and electronics markets. “AXEL’s goal has been to offer a process aid additive that will offer improved flow of PBT and PBT resin blends,” says Nancy Teufel, AXEL’s Product Manager. “We now have that with MoldWiz® INT-35PHT, which allows more flexibility in the incorporation of filler types and loading levels, as well as an easier cavity fill and release performance for those same resins.”
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Foster Delivery Science, a business unit for Foster Corporation, has added comprehensive in-house laboratory services to expedite the screening of early stage formulations, process development, and post-extrusion studies of solid dose drug delivery forms using hot melt extrusion.  As a contract research and manufacturing company that specializes in hot melt extrusion, Foster Delivery Science analytical services includes thermal analysis, spectroscopy, and chromatography equipment specifically designed for solid oral doses produced from this processing method. 
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The range of high performance polymers available from DuPont for use in medical devices, including the new DuPont™ Delrin® SC699 acetal resin  forms the focal point of the company’s exhibit at Pharmapack 2012 in Paris (stand 561). Their use enables the design and manufacture of highly-accurate, reliable, durable and convenient products, as illustrated by the launch last year of the UnoPen™, a disposable, variable-dose injector pen for insulin and other therapies by the company Ypsomed AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).
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Frommelt Safety has just introduced the industry’s most sophisticated automated barrier door, the Guardian Defender. Designed to guard machinery, contain processes and protect employees from robotic/machine movement zones, the new door boasts patent-pending upgrades to its non-contact safety switch configuration, control systems and interlocking capabilities. It also features a new, more resilient curtain material that resists a wider array of application driven hazards and offers optional variable frequency drive to control curtain speed.  In addition, it utilizes new quick-disconnect cables, which allow for easier installation and integration than comparable barrier doors.
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Apex Engineering and Apex Controls Specialist will present an innovative take on modular compounding lines at the 2012 NPE Show. What makes these systems unique to the industry is the flexibility for the owner to choose their own equipment and controls platform to meet their existing plant standards or needs. Also unique is the way the module assembles. Once erected,  it resembles a normal process line not a boxy sea crate frame. It can integrate into a traditional processing building or is low profile enough to slide right into a warehouse type building.
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Alliance Analytical is starting 2012 with a bang. One hundred and forty bangs to be precise. Offered for the first time ever are 140 Brand New in the box Agilent 1200 components at great low pricing. 

The arrival of these new components in early January we will have them in your lab within a few days. No more waiting 60 to 90 days for the OEM to get you that desperately needed component or system.
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SIGMA^® Plastic Services presented its SIGMASOFT® software designed for 3D injection molding process simulation at the recent Euromold 2011, hall 8, stand A 101. One of the highlights of the presentation was the SIGMASOFT^® unique functionality of its “multi-cycle analysis”, a new benchmark in injection molding simulation.
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Quick and efficient responses to changing batch sizes are among the basic requirements for economical production processes of injection molding tools.

This is precisely what the new multi-component platform injection molding tools by ZAHORANSKY Formenbau, D-79108 Freiburg delivers.  They guarantee the quick product changeover by simply exchanging mold inserts in the master mold.  “The new multi-component mold system is the first choice for users who make changing products or who produce large delivery volumes with ultimate quality and economic efficiency.  With its versatility, the system is an important value-adding factor in production”, says Michael Schmidt, Managing Director of ZAHORANSKY Formenbau.
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Vapor Technologies, Inc., an industry pioneer in PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) thin-film coating systems for wide-ranging industrial and consumer product applications, today announced the world’s first true black advanced LTAVD (Low Temperature Arc Vapor Deposition) coating.
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