Higher Film Thickness And Better Charge Storage Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) has introduced two new ULTEMTM UTF120 polyetherimide (PEI) capacitor film products for professional temperature-resistant capacitors. This thin film technology has great advantages in capacitor applications, including high dielectric constant, high insulation resistance and low dielectric loss. Two new film thickness grades address the…

US Presses Shipments Increased By 15.1% Year-On-Year In the first quarter of 2018, the total shipments of presses (mainly injection molding machines and extruders) totaled $333.7 million, which was 15.1% higher than the $1.9 billion in plastic machine shipments in the first quarter of 2017, but compared to 2017. In the fourth quarter of the…

Accelerate The Integration Of Two Depths According to Dai Weihong, general manager of Jiangsu Southern Packaging, technological innovation has always been one of the development strategies of Southern Packaging Group. At present, the pace of market changes is accelerating, labor costs and raw material prices are rising. Only by improving the level of intelligent manufacturing…

Multi-Purpose Intelligent Vacuum Pump Automatically Cuts Off And Is Safer The multi-purpose vacuum pump weighing only 200g can be used with a variety of vacuum bags and adapter sockets, in addition to vacuum packaging of clothes, vacuum processing of dry goods and opened red wine. Lightweight and convenient, this product is ideal for travel or…

All-Electric Injection Molding Machine Achieves Higher Production And Flexibility The manufacturing unit of the injection molding machine is integrated with a positioning unit controlled by a servo motor. In KraussMaffei’s full range of all-motor PX 320 injection molding machines, servo motor-controlled positioning units extend the clamping force range to 3200 kN. The all-electric injection molding…

Can The Mold Also Enjoy VIP Service? Worldwide, the demand for unilaterally providing integrated system solutions is on the rise. To this end, ENGEL is building a network of dispersed mold specialists in its sales area. The project started in China. Two mold managers from the Shanghai division of ENGEL Machinery, Davy Kong and Ian…

A New Generation Of Sustainable, High Barrier Polymers For PET Bottles Sustainability and high barrier function are current consumer requirements for food and beverage packaging. If you combine the two, you will be more sought after by the market. Solvay Specialty Polymers and Husky recently developed a new generation of sustainable, high barrier packaging solutions…

High Performance Materials For Extremely Lightweight Caps Lightweight packaging means reducing the materials used in the production process and effectively achieving sustainable development. Materials suppliers are striving to develop innovative materials and processing technologies to meet the market’s lightweight requirements. SCG Chemicals showcases ultra-thin and ultra-wide films produced by SMX technology on CHINAPLAS 2018. SCG…

Coffee Capsules Will Be The Next Development Market The demand for single-dose capsules is expected to continue to grow, such as coffee capsules. Sacmi’s CCM (Continuous Molding) molding press series is one of the industry’s shortest cycle times, with up to 2,000 molds per minute for a production speed of up to 2,000 lids per…

3D Printing Is Becoming More And More Widely Used In Mold Manufacturing In order to adapt to the rapid update and repeated calculation of the product, the production cycle of the mold is continuously compressed. By using the 3D printing process, a 3D shapeable water path can be made inside the mold, thereby greatly improving…