Plastics processing is a complex system of dialing in and maintaining quality parts as efficiently as possible. Companies with solid process setups start presses quickly, producing no more than three ...

Plastic injection molding efficiency is dependent on the ability of a molder to control and reduce unplanned downtime. A chaotic maintenance strategy leads to scheduling failures, erosion of customer ...

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. Finding the right auxiliary equipment for your facility is imperative to running a smooth operation, and while the ...

Hybrid injection molding technology, which joins metal and plastic inside the mold to produce structural components that offer the best of both materials, has been around for more than a dozen years ...

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. When walking into any plastics processing plant, you’ll see a device called a temperature control unit, or TCU. A TCU ...

In satellites, in jets, in automotive transmissions — the parts that Allegheny Performance Plastics molds for the roads, skies and outer space operate at the boundary of the harshest environments that ...