CHICAGO (June 24, 3:45 p.m. EDT) — Bringing a metal product to a plastics show might be confusing to some, but it makes perfect sense to compounder RTP Co. (Booth N8523). Winona, Minn.-based RTP is ...

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Panasonic Corporation today announced that it has developed a light diffusion type polypropylene (PP) resin molding compound, called “FULL BRIGHT” *1 PP, which can ...

Bulk molding compound (BMC) is a ready-to-mold, glass-fiber reinforced thermoset polymer material used in compression molding, along with injection molding and transfer molding. BMC is manufactured by ...

According to Towards Chemical and Materials, the global metal injection molding (MIM) parts market volume was valued at 60.13 ...

New additives and other chemicals lift productivity and performance to ever-higher levels. Asaclean-Sun Plastech Inc. (Booth S3006): Demonstrations of purging compounds for injection molding machines ...

Once upon a time, glass-mat thermoplastic (GMT) composites were nearly the only option for engineers searching for increased stiffness, strength, and toughness in a polymeric material with a ...

Japan’s Ube Industries, Ltd. has acquired a majority stake Spanish compounder Repol S.L. through its subsidiary UBE Corporation Europe S.A.U. (UCE), which acquired a majority of the shares of Repol at ...

The following is an edited excerpt from The Business of Injection Molding, by Clare Goldsberry. The book is the first title in the IMM Book Club Injection Molding Management Series, published by IMM.

With the miniaturization of many products, manufacturers are streamlining devices to pack more features into smaller packages. For instance, the pitch (spacing) between contacts in electrical ...