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We're eager to meet you at this year's NPE!
At Booth #314 (South Hall) we'll have our computers buzzing to help answer your plastics questions and to demonstrate how Prospector can help your company.
On Monday, June 19th, IDES president Mike Kmetz will be presenting a seminar titled Using the Internet for Plastics Pricing & Materials Research.
We'll also be launching a new service called The Plastics Store™. You can learn more when you see us at NPE, otherwise we'll give you the details in an upcoming newsletter.
Warmest wishes,
The IDES Prospector Team
The Plastics Web™
NPE Booth #314 - We'll see you there!
1. How to Make Your Molds Machine and Location Independent
Proving process capability to the customer is very time consuming and costly, and if that isn’t bad enough, customers require molders to re-prove capability each time their mold is moved to a different machine. Molders need a way to prove to customers that they can mold the same quality parts in different machines and be able to provide solid data to prove it. In-cavity sensors can help provide this data, allowing molders to save time and reduce costs.
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Traditional Methods & Where They Fall Short
Traditional methods of proving capability to customers rely heavily on process and part documentation. The process documentation often includes machine set-points for temperatures, speeds, times and machine pressures. The part documentation includes extensive part measurement data from controlled production run-offs. Other information may be included, such as plans to ensure continued quality in the future, but the primary information is related to the process and the part.
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2. Coming Soon! New Version of Prospector
Soon Prospector will be going away. But wait! You'll still be able to access all of the great features, plastics information and datasheets.
Instead, we're merging Prospector into Prospector and creating one product called ... Prospector.
Learn more.
3. Thermoplastics Report
Long-Glass Fiber-Reinforced ABS
will challenge long-glass polypropylene, as Dow Introduces its new 'Magnum Brace' molding compound.
A Fuel-Efficient, Thermoplastic-Bodied Car
to get 100km on just 1.5 L of diesel fuel (159 miles per gallon!) will be fast, sporty, streamlined and very light weight according to developer Loremo.
Lower-Cost, Two-Shot Molding of Automotive Glazing
is new from Milacron. The firm is teaming with Exatec to demonstrate a new process for two-shot molding of automotive windows without the cost, complexity or machine size required for rotary tooling.
Extended Shelf Life Milk Bottles will Become Lower Cost
with the first muli-layer reciprocating blow molding machine. This new Uniloy Milacron machine will produce HDPE multi-layer milk bottles 10-20% faster...
The Widest Film We've Seen
is 9.9 m (32.6 ft) wide and produced on a new Battenfeld Gloucester machine.
Lower-Cost Stretch Film
is claimed for an ingenious rotating-core-die DR-Pack blown film machine. The machine will challenge the current preference for extrusion casting of stretch film and provide biaxial orientation to allow downgauging.
For Compression Molding of Long-Fiber Thermoplastics,
a complete molding system called PDMS (progressive discreet molding system) is new from American Matrix Corporation.
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