Trexel has developed a new screw design that, when used in conjunction with Trexel’s MuCell microcellular foam process, will minimize damage to long-glass-fiber (12 mm or longer)-filled materials. The ...

Injection molding is a highly-engineered process that demands careful planning and attention to detail if the finished product is to achieve its full potential. The tips in this article should help ...

3D printing is all well and good if you want one of something, but if you want lots of plastic parts that are all largely identical, you should consider injection molding. You can pay someone to do ...

Milacron Inc. has partnered with Barr Inc. of Virginia Beach, Va., to manufacture and sell Barr's injection feed screws in the United States. Officials announced the partnership during Plastics ...

Polymer processing, injection molding, screw design, process modeling and analysis, and plastics process machinery design. Robert E. Nunn was a Professor of Plastics Engineering at the University of ...

Splay is one of the more common — and sometimes baffling — defects in plastic injection molded products. It is a cosmetic defect typically appearing as an off-color streak, often silver in hue, along ...

The extrusion division of the Society of Plastics Engineers and the chapter representing the Eastern New England section are offering a new screw design conference called Topcon. The two-day gathering ...