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New Alpha die technology allows blown film flexibility
Issue: January 2019Alpha Marathon Film Extrusion Technologies has introduced its new Layer Sequence Alpha Dual Spiral System (LSADSS) die technology, which offers blown film [more]
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Machine makers add specialized capabilities to systems
Issue: December 2018Big players in the 3-D printer market are focusing on models with upgrades that enhance quality and offer specialized capabilities for materials processing. [more]
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Next-generation FFF printers boost accuracy, reliability
Issue: December 2018Suppliers of fused-filament-fabrication (FFF) 3-D printers are expanding the capabilities of their products, with high-temperature models and new features [more]
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Photosensitive materials driving printing technologies
Issue: December 2018The ability to use light to create no longer belongs to just painters and photographers. Plastics processors can do it, too. Printing technologies that [more]
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Printing capabilities give mold makers new options
Issue: December 20183-D printer makers say their products provide a way to manufacture shapes that once might have been outside the boundaries of mold makers' capabilities. [more]
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Patent Report: Sipa device quickly cools preforms
Issue: December 2018Sipa SpA, Vittorio Veneto, Italy, has patented a device that more efficiently cools injection molded bottle preforms with the goal of increasing the productivity [more]
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Predictive tools give extruders an edge
Issue: October 2018New predictive maintenance options are giving extrusion manufacturers a sense of what's happening under the hood — all without the need for [more]
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Device aids in attaching tube to spool
Issue: October 2018FB Balzanelli's system would automate the process for affixing a tube or flexible profile to a winding spool./U.S. Patent and Trademark Office An [more]
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Companies find faster, easier ways to manage information
Issue: September 2018As the technologies to collect machine and business data expand and improve, companies that turn all those ones and zeros into business insights are in [more]
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Devices handle quality control for extruded products
Issue: September 2018The technologies to spot defects in film, sheet, pipe and tubing are as varied as the problems they identify. With new offerings from companies such [more]
