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Avery Dennison has successfully achieved OK Compost certification for a BPA-free and FSC-certified thermal label material combined with the brand new adhesive SX6030, offering brands new options to more sustainable packaging. Jennifer…

Munich-based Wacker Chemie AG was honored with this year’s supplier award in the Long-Term Relationship category by Mölnlycke Health Care. The Swedish wound-dressing manufacturer’s decision was prompted by the outstanding quality of the…

Happ is a well-known manufacturer of parts and assemblies for the automotive industry based in Ruppichteroth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The equipment used to make these products includes several injection-molding machines of the…

Advanced chemistry developed by Teknor Apex Company has yielded a new series of thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) for over-molding that exhibit excellent adhesion to engineering plastic substrates while meeting the stringent requirements for…

Modern Plastics India – Interview Questions (Feb/March 2020) Answered by Dinesh Budapanahalli, Vice President -Service & Sales Hot Runners Yves Rebert, Rigid Packaging General Manager Central & West Asia …

For demoulding moulded parts with a complex geometry, mouldmakers prefer to use split moulds. These allow undercuts on plastic parts to be demoulded. The splits act like slides and are matched to the full size of the mould. The…

i-mold has developed a line of compact rotary cooling units that facilitate the cost-efficient integration of rotating cores into injection molds. The device's main components are a stator designed for twist-lock installation which also…

Introduced in early 2020, FLEXflow Evo is an advancement of the FLEXflow technology for servo-electrically driven valve gate systems from HRSflow, which had revolutionized sequential injection molding. With actuators directly fixed on the…

Moulds and tools are becoming increasingly complex. Performance limits repeatedly need to be broken and new ideas and innovations are called for in order to develop new solutions. As an internationally leading supplier of standard…