A radar-based system that precisely monitors the quality of plastic sheet extrusion is under development by Germany’s SKZ Plastics Center and two partner companies. The non-destructive and non-contact ...

Editor?s note: Chris Rauwendaal is a designer, consultant, and seminar instructor who has written extensively on process engineering and extrusion topics. Part 1 of this article (PM&A Nov./Dec. 2002) ...

Romulus, Mich. — Thermoplastic extruder Spiratex Co. will increase manufacturing capacity at its Monroe, Mich., production plant to meet demand from several markets as more industries emerge from the ...

The rapid development of technology is associated with the need to search for new structural materials that meet increasingly stringent requirements and allow further technological barriers to be ...

Increasingly smaller medical devices require tighter tolerances that make extrusion process control more difficult. Photos courtesy of TEEL PLASTICS INC. As medical devices get smaller and tolerances ...

Angel investors understand the high stakes of funding new technologies. The journey is fraught with financial, technical and market risks—but when a groundbreaking well-designed innovation meets the ...

For its latest project FAE SRL, a specialist in electrical panel design for OEMs in the plastics sector, needed a drive solution that could meet the rigorous demands of continuous operation, high ...

“Discover, engineer, build” is an apt slogan for Virtual Engineering Days, scheduled for June 15 to 17, 2021. While the virtual event caters to manufacturing professionals and engineers across a ...

Guill Tool & Engineering has developed a reciprocal tubing die design. Unique features eliminate the need to weld or otherwise join sections with different profiles together. Traditional tip-and-die ...