Automotive Stamping Die Industry Status Quo And Development Prospects Automobile stamping die is an important process equipment for automobile production. Its design and manufacturing time accounts for about 2/3 of the automobile development cycle, which is one of the main constraints of automobile replacement. Automobile stamping dies have the characteristics of large size, complicated working…
New PAEK 3D Printing Materials Coming Soon The University of Exeter and PAEK polymer solutions company Victrex have entered into a strategic partnership to jointly develop new additive (AM) products. Driven by Victrex R&D and the University of Exeter’s Additive Manufacturing Center (CALM), the partnership will develop the next generation of PAEK polymers and composites…
Covestro Creates A New Transparent Window Solution Covestro presents innovative film solutions at TRUSTECH, held in Cannes, France from November 27th to 29th, 2018, through the polycarbonate (PC) film of the gramford® range and the thermoplastic polyurethane of the Platilon® range. (TPU) film, a transparent window solution for creating new license data pages. Transparent window…
WACKER Launches New Silicone For Electronics WACKER recently launched a series of newly developed electronic application room temperature curing one-component silicone rubber. ELASTOSIL® N2140 CN is a one-component, room temperature curable translucent silicone rubber that is easy to flow, has excellent mechanical strength and has an elongation at break of up to 350%. The product…
3D Printed Plastic Material Recycling System Was Sent To Space By NASA Recently, in the 10th commercial replenishment service of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft, the first integrated 3D printer and recycling system was carried to the International Space Station. The 3D printed material recycling system, named Refabricator, converts waste plastic and old 3D printed…
Nestlé Water North America Signs Renewable Plastics (RPET) Purchase Agreement Nestlé Water North America has signed an important rPET agreement with its Los Angeles supplier CarbonLITE to purchase recycled PET plastic (rPET) from CarbonLITE. The signing of the new contract is based on the existing partnership between Nestlé and CarbonLITE. The company, as one of…
Weight Measurement And Thrust Transfer For Assisted Rotomolding Equipment Combined with the Powderspeed system (for long-distance transport of powder and non-powder materials) with the Rotodosing system (guaranteed the ideal weight of each mold). The solution provided by DEGA can effectively solve the problem of increased cost due to material waste during the production phase. The…
In Just Ten Years, BMW Produces One Million 3D Printed Parts In the BMW Group, the use of 3D printed parts is increasing. In the past decade alone, BMW has produced one million parts through the innovative approach of 3D printing. This year, the production of 3D printing parts of the BMW Group’s additive manufacturing…
Structural Solutions For New Mold Side-Mounted Cylinders Italian hot runner specialist HRSflow exhibited a structural solution with a new side-mounted cylinder at NPE 2018, in which a hydraulic or pneumatic drive cylinder for the needle valve nozzle was placed outside the mold. This configuration has time and cost advantages for repair and maintenance work, and…
New Hot Runner Solutions Improve Mold Performance he hot runner system is a heating component assembly used in injection molds that transports molten plastic from the machine nozzles into the mold cavity by a hot runner system and ensures proper flow and pressure while maintaining the desired temperature level. In the injection molding process, it…