Packaging

Business Strategy 1 Nov 2012

Aerospace & Packaging

Production of Aerospace Products and Parts is Accelerating; Plastics Packaging Demand Will Exceed Growth in the Overall Economy

Mold Components 1 Jun 2012

Advanced Prototyping for Threaded Parts

A look at a modular tooling standard designed to help cost effectively develop caps and closures to be either stripped out of the mold or use a collapsible core.

Business Strategy 1 Apr 2012

End Market Report: Aerospace/Defense & Packaging

Plastics Packaging Outlook: Moderate Growth in 2012, and Aerospace/Defense Spending Outlook.

Case Study 1 Nov 2011

Diverse Mold Offerings Sustain Moldmaker, Secures Future Business

Pelco Tool & Mold, Inc. (Glendale Heights, IL)—a producer of close-tolerance, high-quality tools for the closure, food and beverage, personal care, and medical industries—designs and builds a plethora of molds, including, single face and stack, rotating ratchet ring (RRR), conventional unscrewing, strip, side-action, collapsible core, compression, front-loaded core, insert and prototype.

Hot Runners 1 Nov 2011

Internally Heated Hot Runner Nozzles: Leak-Free Performance for More Profitable Production

Case Study, Hot Runners, Packaging

consumer 1 Oct 2011

Case Study, Software, Consumer Packaging: Enhance Your Quoting Process

The right scheduling solution allows for an effective quotation process.

consumer 1 Sep 2011

Social Networking, Industry Participation Keys to Moldmaker’s Success

Industrial Mold & Machine (IMM; Twinsburg, OH) considers itself fairly diverse. A majority of the company’s work is smaller molds (under 400 tons) in industries like appliance, computer/business equipment, electronics, lawn and garden, marine, medical/optical/dental, telecommunications and toys.

Workforce Development 2 Aug 2011

How to Return Manufacturing Jobs to the U.S.: Experts Give Details at Boothroyd Dewhurst DFMA Forum

The good news is that increasingly savvy manufacturers are able to root out troublesome costs and problems from their products earlier and earlier in a lifecycle that starts even before a computer model is created—and ends with finished automobiles, appliances and other goods.