The services offered by printing farms and service providers such as Jabil illustrate the growing array of applications possible from 3D printers, including R&D; prototyping; production of jigs, fixtures and tooling; bridge production; serial production; and parts repair.

Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing makes strides

Bruce Geiselman

Nov. 20, 2024

3D printing has moved beyond prototyping, as companies explore ways to produce larger parts as well as molds and tooling.

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10 years, 10 trends in plastics machinery

Bruce Geiselman

Nov. 14, 2024

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10 years, 10 influential people in plastics machinery

Nov. 13, 2024

Steve Maguire, founder of auxiliary equipment maker Maguire Products Inc., Aston, Pa., poses with one of his many products.

Injection Molding

Engineering challenges energize Maguire

Nov. 19, 2024

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Hasco helps hurricane victims; AI-powered robots for recycling; looking back at the decade: Machinery Minutes, Nov. 18, 2024

Bruce Geiselman

Nov. 18, 2024

Introduced in October at Fakuma, Boy's latest injection molding machines (IMMs), the Electric series, join other hybids already in the market. The compact, two-platen servo-hydraulic machines are available with clamping forces from 35 tons to 800 tons.

Injection Molding

All-electrics, hybrids gain prominence

Nov. 18, 2024

Injection Molding

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Conair Group appoints Jared Helfrich VP of customer care

Nov. 18, 2024

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Plastics machinery shipments rise in Q3

Nov. 18, 2024

Maureen Steinwall poses with her son, Tom Smolenski, who has taken over day-to-day control of Steinwall Inc., an injection molding shop her father started.

Injection Molding

Steinwall offers alternative outlook on workforce

Nov. 15, 2024

Extrusion

The industry’s first Plastic Encapsulated Windows — fixed rear quarter windows used on the 1978 General Motors Company A-Body Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick Wagons — were named the 2024 SPE Automotive Division Hall of Fame Winner.

SPE Automotive Division presents Innovation Awards

Nov. 14, 2024

Matt Seaholm, left, appears on stage with Bill Carteaux in 2018 at the Global Plastics Summit. Carteaux, who had served the Plastics Industry Association as its president and CEO since 2005, when it was known as the Society of the Plastics Industry, died a few weeks later. In 2022, Seaholm was promoted to helm the organization.

Seaholm restores stability to PLASTICS

Nov. 13, 2024

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Hiring gets easier, but challenges could persist

Nov. 12, 2024

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Strengthening the recycled plastic supply chain

Nov. 20, 2024

The Chem-X gear pump is the first joint release by Maag and Witte.

Maag, Witte release gear pump jointly

Nov. 20, 2024

Coperion's new slide gate valve has multiple applications.

Product Innovations

Coperion discharge valve is versatile

Nov. 19, 2024

Christian Sommer, application sales manager at Erema, presented the company’s new DischargePro laser filter control system at NPE2024.

Erema DischargePro reduces melt loss

Nov. 18, 2024

LG Chem's new resins are flame-retardant without use of PFAS, and contain more than 50 percent PCR.

LG Chem introduces PFAS-free flame-retardant plastics

Bruce Geiselman

Nov. 15, 2024

Blow Molding

Amid hiring challenges, molders have invested in automation. Among them is Rockford, Ill., Pyramid Plastics, where a Yushin robot is shown stationed above a press.

Manufacturers turn to robots, cobots amid workforce woes

Nov. 14, 2024

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Product Innovations

Product Innovations of the Week: Nov. 9

Nov. 9, 2024

Bill Carteaux, the late Plastics Industry Association president and CEO, was one of the industry's most ardent supporters up until his death in 2018.

Carteaux championed industry

Nov. 8, 2024

Globeius now offering end-of-arm tooling from Roborex

Nov. 6, 2024

Molds & Tooling

Micro-Epsilon's optonCDT1900 has a new protective housing.

Product Innovations

Micro-Epsilon sensor gains protective housing

Nov. 8, 2024

Prices for goods shipped from overseas could get more expensive under a second Trump presidency, if he follows through with pledges to institute tariffs. However, overseas OEMs expressed optimism that policies to strengthen the dollar, along with tax incentives, could help their business.

Plastics machinery makers express optimism following election

Bruce Geiselman

Nov. 7, 2024

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Product Innovations

Product Innovations of the Week: Nov. 2

Nov. 2, 2024

Using AI-assisted guidance, the Anca EPX-SF can process up to 1,900 tools in 24 hours.

Molds & Tooling

Anca stream finishing machine achieves nano-smooth surfaces

Oct. 31, 2024

Recycling

Dewatered material that has passed through Weima's C.200 drainage press

Product Innovations

Product Innovations of the Week: Nov. 16

Nov. 16, 2024

The Weima C.200 (pictured) and C.200 Duo drainage presses remove moisture from shredded materials.

Weima drainage presses remove moisture

Nov. 14, 2024

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PLASTICS seeks nominees for sustainability awards

Nov. 12, 2024

NGR has upgraded and expanded its C:Gran series of cutter-compactor-extruders.

C:Gran handles moist materials

Nov. 12, 2024

Additive Manufacturing

The Argo 1000 Hypermelt can process standard resin pellets to make large parts.

Additive Manufacturing

Roboze printer makes large, precise parts

Nov. 13, 2024

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Machinery OEMs optimistic after election; 3D printing for drones; meet Fimic's CEO: Machinery Minutes, Nov. 11, 2024

Bruce Geiselman

Nov. 11, 2024

Unusual Machines uses HP's Multi Jet Fusion additive manufacturing process to build drone components.

Additive Manufacturing

Drone maker soars higher with 3D printing

Nov. 5, 2024

BigRep's VIIO 250 is a large-format FFF industrial 3D printer.

Additive Manufacturing

VIIO 250 prints large parts efficiently

Oct. 18, 2024

Features

Riverdale Global estimates that a new water-treatment facility it recently put into operation at its High Point, N.C., plant will allow it to save an average of 250,000 gallons of water a year.

Injection Molding

Riverdale Global starts up new, more-efficient water-treatment facility

Nov. 11, 2024

Fresno, California’s Cedar Avenue Recycling and Transfer Station (CARTS) has improved its materials-recovery rates and lessened the burden on its employees by installing robots to sort PET from three categories: pigmented or opaque PET, PET bottles and thermoforms.

EverestLabs' robots sort recyclables with help of AI

Nov. 11, 2024

People load items outside Hasco's warehouse in Fletcher, N.C., where the company has worked with a missionary group to collect and distribute supplies for people trying to recover from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene.

Hasco provides support in Hurricane Helene relief efforts

Nov. 8, 2024

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Nov. 7, 2024

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Thermoforming

Kiefel will cut about 100 jobs at its Freilassing, Germany, headquarters.

Kiefel will reorganize, cut 100 jobs

Nov. 19, 2024

Wrapping insulation jacketing around injection molding machines is 'the most cost-effective thing I have ever seen,' APenergy consultant Matt Flanigan says.

Opportunity abounds for energy savings

Bruce Geiselman

Oct. 7, 2024

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Five things to know: Biomaterials, auxiliaries, leadership changes

Bruce Geiselman

Oct. 3, 2024

Litai's TTF-820AF thermoformer is now available in the U.S. market.

Litai expands into U.S. thermoforming market

Sept. 25, 2024

Compounding

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Microgrids offer solution to big problem – energy fluctuations

Oct. 22, 2024

Coperion's STS 75 MC Plus twin-screw extruder has multiple applications.

Coperion extruder has more power, torque

Oct. 8, 2024

Break Machinery has expanded its line of Duo screen changers with the addition of the 7000 DS Twin and 5600 DS Twin.

Duo filters prevent interruptions to melt filter operation

Sept. 17, 2024

Arburg technicians meet at the company’s Rocky, Hill, Conn., facility. The OEM's teams at its facilities in the U.S. and Germany can help customers work through processing issues, including any challenges they might be experiencing with running new or unfamiliar materials.

Biomaterials draw interest, but supply chain is weak

Sept. 16, 2024

Rotomolding

Maag mill housing improves airflow

Bruce Geiselman

May 1, 2024

Processor, material firm adapt resin to rotomold part with a challenging feature

Bruce Geiselman

Jan. 17, 2024

Rotoline's Automatic Weighing System weighs and dispenses precise batches into a container to match the requirements of the mold.

Rotoline system dispenses powder for rotomolding

Oct. 24, 2023

PLASTICS, ACC ramp up campaign for zero plastic resin loss

Oct. 3, 2023