Injection Moulding World - Global Updates from Injection Moulding Industry

From 1 October 2020, Dr. Lutz Werner has taken up the position of Business Unit Manager for Europe at Buehler – ITW Test & Measurement GmbH, a premier manufacturer of scientific equipment, consumables and accessories for metallography…

Tanja Dreilich, Managing Director and CFO, will leave the Constantia Flexibles Group by the end of 2020 in order to take on new professional challenges. The CFO tasks will be taken over by Richard Kelsey, SVP Finance Consumer, on an interim…

Initiatives to replace plastic with other alternatives have long been in play but the packaging section in the industrial sectors is now overturning the situation. Replacing plastic with single-use plastic, paper, and cotton products…

Contemporary healthcare would stand unbearable lacking the countless plastic-based medical products we misappropriate. Plastics are all over, from examination gloves to sterilized needles and adhesive dressing strips from blood bags to IV…

The advantages of plastics in the automotive industry has increased consumer demand much more than before. A wide scope of technology is used in order to fulfill these demands. All through our lives we have witnessed numerous transitions…

The ultimate couple, plastics and agriculture, Plasticulture, have been supportive for each other’s growth since long known in history. Now, they are upgraded and have even better versions of themselves than before, all with the help of…

Since 1970, plastics have been a major component in the aerospace industry. Though plastic materials were established in the late 1800s and set in use in the 1930s, it was not until World War II that it was installed in aircrafts. Owing to…

Debottlenecking at the world’s largest plant for synthetic iron oxide pigments Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has expanded its capacity for black synthetic iron oxide pigments at its Krefeld-Uerdingen site by more than 5,000 metric…

In an additive manufacturing process, virtual heart valve models are created with the aid of a CT scan and a preeflow eco-PEN300 one-component dispenser: Fergal Coulter from the “Complex Materials Group” of ETH Zurich undertook research for…

Scientists develop a novel and surprisingly simple method to print 3D structures made of metal and plastic, paving the way for 3D electronics Current 3D printers employ either plastic or metal only, and the conventional method to coat 3D…