For the injection molding machines offered by KraussMaffei, an injection molding machine maker, variant models are available for processing a wide range of materials. A striking example is the EX machine in operation with Bernhard Kneifel Werkzeugbau GmbH in Bad Aibling, Germany, since spring 2010. It is being used to inject liquid silicone seals onto polyamide substrates.

A new technology has entered the world of ENGEL injection molding machines for elastomer processing. The patented EF-E injection unit series by German elastomer machine builders LWB Steinl is now optionally available for ENGEL machines for immediately delivery. Customers can be benefited by up to 50% heating time reduction and improved ergonomics due to the lower operating height.

MCHENRY, IL -- Chroma has come up with a Glow Putty which can be applied to a specific area in the rotational mold - making that area glow in dark for up to 29 hours. The Glow Putty eliminates the need to make an entire part photoluminescent.

May 5, 2010 - Dracut, MA - A. Routsis Associates, Inc., the premier training provider for the plastics industry , announces the release of a new online training program, entitled Processing with Electric Injection Molding Machines.

MALTERDINGEN -- Injection molding machine manufacturer Ferromatik Milacron has made available a new K-TEC high-performance multi-component machine to the Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) at the RWTH Aachen University. The K-TEC 200-2F with a clamping force of 2,000kN is equipped with a horizontal and a vertical injection unit of international sizes 1,000 and 265.

MALTERDINGEN -- Injection molding machine manufacturer Ferromatik Milacron has made available a new K-TEC high-performance multi-component machine to the Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) at the RWTH Aachen University.

Scandinavian thermoplastic compounds producer Polykemi says it will this year invest SEK42m (€4.3m) in expanding in Sweden and China. The company is investing SEK32m (€3.3m) in Sweden and SEK10m (€1m) in China, where part of the money will be spent on buying the previously leased Polykemi China buildings.

Barely a week after the announcement that it had begun operations at a new hot runner manufacturing facility in Coimbatore, India, hot runner systems supplier Mold-Masters  (Georgetown, ON) this week announced it also was expanding its sales and service organization in Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Milacron LLC and Fanuc Ltd. are continuing their 26-year relationship covering Roboshot all-electric injection molding machines.

In order to avoid misunderstandings, it is necessary to remark that, in the first semester of 2009, the export decreased by 32% in value with respect to the same period of last year. However, the German manufacturers, the main competitors of the sectoral made in Italy, recorded an even worse drop (-37%).

KraussMaffei, a German based supplier of plastics machinery, supplies reliable and cost-effective systems for mass-flow regulated CO2 nucleation which has been increasingly used as the physical blowing agent in flexible foam production.

Georg Schwarz, the owner of injection molding machine supplier Engel Austria GmbH, has received a very special accolade at the NPE 2009 in Chicago where his name was added to the "Plastics Hall of Fame".

In addition to the finance packages from Deutsche Leasing which Engel explained to its customers at the technical symposium it held in Austria at the end of May the company is also now using its independent family-owned status to help its customers raise money to buy its injection moulding machines.

Wenzhou Sanhuan Rubber & Plastic Products Inc. started in the 1990s under the leadership of Mr. Zhao Jingwen, chief manager of the company, has developed with the joint efforts of all staff from an unknown small rubber mill to a strongly competitive high-tech enterprise.

Cincinnati Extrusion GmbH, an Austria-based machine manufacturer, has extended its Alpha 75-25B product range of single-screw extruder models for technical profiles as well as mini-diameter and corrugated pipes.

Ferromatik Milacron, a manufacturer of injection molding machine, bagged an order for 14 machines from Hong Kong-based Hayco this month.

Automatik Plastics Machinery GmbH, a German specialist of palletizing technology, has recently delivered four underwater strand pelletizing systems to Uhde Inventa-Fischer AG, a Berlin-based engineering company, for a major customer in the European market.

Old hands in injection moulding will remember in the early 'eighties when Boy put one of its moulding machines in a mini-bus, and campaigned it round the country to demonstrate it to potential customers in the privacy of their own car park.

A single order for 14 injection moulding machines has been placed with Ferromatik Milacron in Germany by Hong Kong-based Hayco.

HYPLAST INDUSTRIES offers worldclass Flexo/Roto Printing Machines, Slitter-Rewinders for the Plastic Industry.