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Filling machine turns up the juice
. Community. Forums. Blogs. LinkedIN. Facebook. Events. View Upcoming Events. Advertisement. Related Content. Cold-seal packaging protects toothbrush shield. Clear plastic bottles make inroads into packaging for wine and barbecue sauce. Blow-fill-seal packaging for pharmaceuticals. Scanning for ideas
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A Coupled Filling-Structural Simulation on a Water Manifold Injection Mold (.pdf)
An injection mold for a water manifold was experiencing deflection on an extremely long core, causing a high defect rate on the finished product. In addition, inserted small plastic capillaries were being crushed if the mold parameters were outside a narrow window. By taking the pressure output
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Micromolding with bathtub caulk
such as the D. Plastic parts in kitchenware and toys are generally massproduced with a molding process. But mass-producing complicated plastic microcomponents is another matter entirely. "Molds for producing large objects are usually composed of two or more pieces that fit together," says University of Maryland
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Novel Manufacturing Technique Produces Parts Lighter and Stronger than Aluminum
"thixotropy," the property of certain fluids to exhibit changes in viscosity depending on sheer stresses. MAG produces net or near-net parts. ), that provide MAG say the technique combines plastic injection molding and die casting (a process in which liquid material is poured into a mold with a shaped cavity
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Intensified Ribbon Blending of Melamine Compounds Cuts Cycle Times 25% for Furniture Molder
Melsur Corporation, the world's leading supplier of hard plastic melamine school furniture, molds components from a mixture of resin, wood flour and pigments. Each of the 32 color variations, 30 products and custom designs must be blended individually, a process that can take up to four hours
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The weak link in reinforced nylons
. In fact, knit lines have about the strength of unfilled resin. Moldflow software from Moldflow Corp., Wayland, Mass., simulates liquid plastic flowing into an injection mold. This helps designers predict where knit and meld lines are likely to form. Areas colored red take the least time to fill
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Better Injection Molding Through Bubbles
users have successfully employed carbon dioxide as well. The foam fix. In solid injection molding, process engineers must manage melt pressure and temperature, clamping pressure, mold length and thickness, and process time to get plastic through the gate to the last point of filling without
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Designing to beat the heat
conductive plastics have higher viscosities than their conventional plastic counterparts. Therefore, thin walls over larger areas can be more difficult to mold. The thickness-to-flow ratio is better than die casting, but is not equivalent to that of the base resin. A recommendation is to use ribs as flow