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SIZE REDUCTION: You’ve been friended

New shredder and granulator designs that offer easy cleaning and knife maintenance, quick and safe access to the heart of the machine, and improved wear protection can help transform your size reduction process from headache to hassle-free.

INJECTION MOLDING: Aiding automotive applications

Molding automotive parts never gets old, especially since automakers are always demanding components that are tougher, lighter, more corrosion- and chemical-resistant, easier to fabricate, and less expensive than alternative materials like metal. Which is why some of the latest resins and additives will come in handy.

HOT RUNNERS: What’s hot

With the need for very accurate, flash-free plastic parts on the rise, the demand for hot runner systems is on the rise too. Which is why improving hot runner technology is always important. Here are some innovations that can minimize residence time, increase shot capacity, and generally promote more efficient molding.

PURGING COMPOUNDS: Turning up the heat

Expensive, high-temperature resins are almost the norm these days for some molders. But using standard commercial purging compounds to try to remove them from your processing machines definitely shouldn’t be the norm. Here’s the right way to purge super-engineering resins.

BLOWN FILM: Techflow Design & Manufacturing is moving on up

This Ontario-based blown film machinery and plastic extrusion equipment maker has a good reason for expanding into a new, larger facility in Mississauga: business is booming.

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