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ExxonMobil Chemical to Demonstrate Technology Leadership for Innovative Applications at Chinaplas 2013

ExxonMobil Chemical will demonstrate how its technology leadership can be used for innovative application solutions at its booth (10.2A41) and at OEM booths at Chinaplas 2013, The China Import and Export Fair Complex, Pazhou, Guangzhou, May 20-23.  ExxonMobil Chemical will showcase innovative solutions for flexible and rigid packaging, automotive and polymer compounding by combining its ca
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Competence Days at WITTMANN BATTENFELD – into the future with “Power”

At the Competence Days, WITTMANN BATTENFELD did justice to its motto “Power for the Future”. This is what some 1,100 visitors, who found their way to Kottingbrunn, Lower Austria on April 24 and 25, were able to witness and experience first hand.
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Milacron Now Offering Enhanced Roboshot All-Electric Injection Molding Machine

Milacron Plastics Technologies, a worldwide supplier of plastics-processing technologies, continues to offer the enhanced and top-selling Roboshot all-electric injection molding machine. New improvements to the machine offer customers unprecedented flexibility in their molding process.
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ExxonMobil Chemical to Demonstrate Technology Leadership for Innovative Applications at Chinaplas 2013

ExxonMobil Chemical will demonstrate how its technology leadership can be used for innovative application solutions at its booth (10.2A41) and at OEM booths at Chinaplas 2013, The China Import and Export Fair Complex, Pazhou, Guangzhou, May 20-23.  ExxonMobil Chemical will showcase innovative solutions for flexible and rigid packaging, automotive and polymer compounding by combining its ca
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Competence Days at WITTMANN BATTENFELD – into the future with “Power”

At the Competence Days, WITTMANN BATTENFELD did justice to its motto “Power for the Future”. This is what some 1,100 visitors, who found their way to Kottingbrunn, Lower Austria on April 24 and 25, were able to witness and experience first hand.
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Milacron Now Offering Enhanced Roboshot All-Electric Injection Molding Machine

Milacron Plastics Technologies, a worldwide supplier of plastics-processing technologies, continues to offer the enhanced and top-selling Roboshot all-electric injection molding machine. New improvements to the machine offer customers unprecedented flexibility in their molding process.
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Enhanced System for Reclaiming Purgings Produces Bettter-Quality Regrind

Maguire Products, Inc. has streamlined the operation of its unique system for transforming purgings into regrind, making possible an increase in throughput of 20% and production of finer and more uniform granulate with less dusting, the company announced.
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Henkel's Frekote® Mold Release Solutions Guide Eases Product Selection

Henkel Corporation has introduced the new Frekote® Mold Release Solutions Guide, a comprehensive 20-page brochure showcasing the company's complete line of more than 60-mold release agents for all types of composite and rubber-molding operations. The literature facilitates product selection by organizing selector guides by substrate type and end use. 
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Progress in Polyester Development for EBM Applications

The optimal formulation for a clear extrusion-blow-molding (EBM) material must fulfill three main requirements: it must process efficiently on existing equipment, produce bottles with robust drop-impact performance, and have an acceptable recyclability story.
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Analysis of Fluid-Assisted Injection Techniques by Use of Ultrasonic Measurements

Gas-assisted injection molding (GAIM) and water-assisted injection molding (WAIM) are well-established processes for producing parts with (functional) hollow space. The quality of these parts greatly depends on internal part properties, such as residual wall thickness.
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Innovations in Film Processing

To produce quality film economically requires that all the parts of the processing line work together seamlessly to deliver precise film thicknesses at fast speeds without wasting material. As more specialized—and more expensive—additives enter the market, it is even more important not to waste raw materials.
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Control Technology: Hot Panels

High-quality plastic panels can be formed from foil material by means of vacuum deep-drawing with two sheets. However, accurate matching of the process technology – and particularly the temperature control – remains a challenge.
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Forums Highlight News in Energy, Healthcare, and Green Technologies

The Fundamentals & Fellows Forum and three New Technology Forums, held at the SPE’s ANTEC 2012 Conference April 2-4 in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla., present emerging research, some close to commercial, some still in the concept stage. This year’s four forums (www.4spe.org/antecnpe-2012-new-technology-forums) cover fundamental research, energy and renewable energy, healthcare, and green technologies. Unlike other ANTEC papers, however, these aren’t reprinted later. You have to be there. That’s easier this year because ANTEC is co-located with the National Plastics Exposition April 1-5. Here’s a preview of some of what you’ll hear.

Presenters at the Fundamentals & Fellows Forum, Monday a.m. April 2, are fellows of the Society of Plastics Engineers, a small group of individuals chosen for major contributions to the fundamental knowledge of plastics, or other renowned experts in their fields. Costas Gogos, distinguished research professor of chemical engineering and Huiju Liu, post doctoral fellow at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (www.njit.edu) and the Polymer Processing Institute, Newark, N.J. (www.polymers-ppi.com), present a new pharmaceutical extrusion technology in which poorly water-soluble drugs are melt compounded into a water soluble polymeric formulation, absorbable by the human body.
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