PMM Most Read Articles - May 4th, 2023
 
 
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May 4, 2023
Huge 8,200-ton presses are making vessels for underground water storage at Infiltrator Water Technologies in Winchester, Ky.
The Entek leader helped the company launch its extruder business and is now managing the growth in the battery separator market.
The American Chemistry Council says plastics and polymer composites play an increasing role in carbon emission reductions and safety gains.
Once it was a cheap alternative; now, with companies setting ambitious sustainability targets, supply is tight and it can cost more than virgin.
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Jeff Burnstein, who leads the Association for Advancing Automation, believes robot applications will continue to expand, including in the home.
Ability to work alongside humans characterizes the technologies, but interactions that would bring the two in closest contact still are rare.
The postage-stamp-sized marks, which allow for more precise sorting, are applied directly via the mold cavity surface to the molded parts.
Adding the Enercon blown-ion system, along with custom automation, also freed workers from a smelly job at Champion Plastics.
Artificial intelligence, sensors and vision systems that can be paired with cobots enable advances.
Automation helps companies meet demand for parts, even as hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs go unfilled.