Archive for the ‘Moulding’ Category
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
One thing always leads to another for François Berry, President of Top Clean Packaging Group, which is headquartered in the village of Peschadoires smack in the centre of France. For instance, the company had been supplying thermoformed packaging for a major medtech manufacturer for several years, when it occurred to ...
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
If you live and breathe moulding and don’t mind devoting part of your late afternoon or early evening learning more about it, you might be interested in attending a webcast dedicated to reducing revalidation costs. Titled Easier Medical Injection Moulding Process Revalidation, the webcast will discuss the use of Universal ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
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Staying abreast of technology and exhibiting discipline in production operations are key to ensuring moulded plastic medical devices remain internationally competitive in price and quality, says plastics processing consultant John Bozzelli, owner of Scientific Molding. “Processes ...
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Sunday, April 25th, 2010
An electric valve-gate system that offers a 6 in./sec valve-pin movement and closing forces greater than 35,000 psi is suited for precision medical cleanroom moulding applications. When paired with a sequencer from the same manufacturer, the machine operator can monitor section views of each valve gate in real time. In ...
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Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
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Ensuring that the two halves of an injection mould are perfectly aligned and sealed is especially important when life-saving medical products are being manufactured. A thin flexible film supplied by Sensor Products (Madison, NJ, USA) provides ...
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Monday, January 25th, 2010
Swiss precision plastics technology company, forteq will showcase its custom moulding and development services at this year's Pharmapack/BIOMEDevice, which takes place next week at the Grande Halle de la Villete in Paris. The brand new BIOMEDevice event, which is co-located with Pharmapack, focuses on combination products. "This will be our second year at ...
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Friday, September 4th, 2009
Plastics manufacturing equipment supplier Wittmann Battenfeld will present its all-electric EcoPower injection moulding machine at Germany’s annual injection moulding exhibition, Fakuma, which takes place in Friederichshafen on 13–17 October 2009. Two machinery sizes, 55 t and 110 t locking force, will be there. The EcoPower machine range is set to ...
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Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Now here’s a book you can judge by its cover. Custom Molding of Thermoset Elastomers (Munich: Hanser Gardner, 2009) promises—and delivers—a no-nonsense hands-on look at materials selection and processing. It is designed to educate potential customers, explains author Bernie Stritzke, Vice President and General Manager of US-based custom moulder MedPlast ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Two thousand and nine is the bicentenary of French inventor Louis Braille, the originator of the writing system for blind and partially sighted people. The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is Europe’s largest Braille publisher and it is contributing to the bicentenary celebrations by launching a revolutionary Braille ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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Gerresheimer Wilden is retiring its venerable cuvette production lines at its Küssnacht, Switzerland, facility and replacing them with new high-performance systems. Anchored by all-electric Netstal ELION 1750-530 moulding machines with a ...
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
If you deal in high-volume moulding, the use of hot runner technology is generally recommended. But what if you are dealing in smaller quantities? The high cost of plastics, energy and manpower is making hot runners a sensible choice even when small volumes of moulded parts are involved, according to ...
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Männer, a specialist in high-precision mould making and valve gate hot runner technology, has opened a new production facility in Lawrenceville, GA, USA, which is located near the city of Atlanta. Up to now the company's manufacturing operations have been concentrated exclusively in Germany and Switzerland. The decision to open ...
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