Empowering pellet counters

Waste is often only tracked within a mold cavity itself—is the part now cooling inside the tool ready to ship or is it scrap? A molder’s investment in material, however, extends over a broader scope of the process, from transferring resin out of the railcar to drying and beyond, reaching all the way to converting bad parts, runners, and sprues into renewed pellets. Out of every 10 lb delivered to your plant, how many pounds do you sell to customers as finished parts?

Onshoring: too good to be true?

Onshoring is definitely happening, 
but offshoring continues.

Empowering pellet counters

Waste is often only tracked within a mold cavity itself—is the part now cooling inside the tool ready to ship or is it scrap? A molder’s investment in material, however, extends over a broader scope of the process, from transferring resin out of the railcar to drying and beyond, reaching all the way to converting bad parts, runners, and sprues into renewed pellets. Out of every 10 lb delivered to your plant, how many pounds do you sell to customers as finished parts?

How glass bubbles can reduce the weight of TPO parts

As the search continues for lower material costs, without sacrificing performance or processability, glass bubbles are getting more attention. Reducing density with additives is not new, but bubbles are showing advantages. (Contributed by 3M, edited by IMM Staff)

Demystifying mold development

Most of us in plastics molding accept the fact that mold development is an iterative process—make it, try it, tune it, and repeat that till it’s making good parts. Normal, right? Yes, but maybe normal needs an engineering review.

The Troubleshooter: Sprue taper—more critical than you think

Restriction to flow is the problem of the day.

Contract manufacturer/molder buys customer's business

Custom molder, toolmaker, and contract manufacturer Precimold (Candiac, QC) has completed the purchase of the Search & Rescue lighting division EJE Trans-Lite (EJETL) from one of its clients, Rutter Inc. of St. John's, NL, for which it had been molding all the plastic components for the past 12 years.

Simpler mousetrap moves 
manufacturing back to the USA

We all know what happens when you build a better metaphoric mousetrap, but one company has built a better real one, and awaits as the world beats a path to its door.

What’s up? Degradable plastics’ acceptance, says research

The Freedonia Group, a Cleveland, OH-based industry market research firm, rightly notes that the degradable plastic industry “has been on the verge of commercial success for decades.” However, limitations such as their expense, lack of availability in large quantities, and performance drawbacks kept them lagging behind petroleum-based resins and limited to niche markets. This situation began to change in the early 2000s, as OEMs, retailers, and consumer groups became more interested in environmentally friendly products.

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