Arburg GmbH + Co. KG has developed a hydraulic compression molding machine designed for a 0.5-millimeter-thick optical application. The machine and application were debuted at Chinaplas 2012 in ...

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This article examines the various uses of presses in research and manufacturing, while exploring some of the different industries in which they are used. Omnipresent in both industry manufacturing and ...

The industry isn’t new to the so-called “out-of-autoclave” technologies as a necessary step towards high-volume manufacturing. Unlike other composites processing technologies, compression molding is ...

LMG, formerly Lawton Machinery Group, has built a 500-ton down-acting compression molding press with an integrated material transfer shuttle system for molding high-temperature thermoplastic materials ...

About 50 billion plastic screw caps are made annually, and demand is rising all the time. In the game between the two rival production processes, neither holds all the aces. When it comes to choosing ...

Ealias C. Joseph didn't particularly like one thing he saw at K 1998 in Düsseldorf, Germany. What he saw was an extrusion-compression molding system producing tamper-evident closures at a ...

Shindo noncrimp fabrics (NCFs) have been used for various products in the aerospace, marine, civil construction, and repair and reinforcement fields. There are four features that characterize this new ...

Compression molding involves forming of complex shaped components by molding of a charge of fiber reinforced prepreg bulk molding compound (BMC) under heat and high pressures. Unidirectional fiber ...

The hybrid-composite rear load floor uses unidirectional (UD) thermoplastic tapes plus direct-long-fiber thermoplastic (D-LFT) composites. Thermoplastic tapes provided high stiffness/strength in a ...

An outsource developer and manufacturer of finished, disposable medical devices has injection molding capabilities for precision components. Thirteen facilities with Class 10,000 and Class 100,000 ...