A study done in 2002 by CC Technologies Labs, Inc. showed U.S. Industry spent $276 billion a year in costs related to, or caused from, corrosion. In the plastics industry, these costs are not limited to mold damage and repair. Corrosion also causes the breakdown/shutdown of a press, leading to manufacturing down time and significant loss of productivity. If you have not set up a proactive mold maintenance program, your facility runs efficiently only until the next major problem or repair.

A number of factors dictate how you will prepare for proper corrosion control. For example, plastic materials with fillers are especially abrasive and will wash away the mold steel after thousands of cycles. Plastic with high-melt temperatures expose the mold to more heat and cause more …

SABIC Innovative Plastics recently implemented newly designed and updated engineering calculators on their website. New calculators such as a beam stiffness calculator, screw thread pull out strength, boss hoop stress calculator and others for a total of 9 new tools have been redesigned, updated for accuracy and now allow for output of results into excel format.

Please visit the calculator tools page and give them a try. Additional tools will be added over time and they will continue to improve all the tools by expanding interactivity with other support they offer on their website.

The past decade has witnessed a widespread adoption of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software for simulating the injection molding process. Numerous companies have successfully used plastics CAE to optimize their design-to-manufacturing operations, saving thousands of dollars through a combination of reduced development and manufacturing costs, improved part quality, and shorter time to market. While the general benefits of plastics CAE have been well demonstrated and are now widely understood, there is much less understanding of the assumptions, quality, and applicability of specific analyses. Additionally, plastics CAE analysis is still a niche among many of the companies that perform it.

The knowledge gained from performing CAE analyses is rarely shared across the organization. The distributed nature of the industry contributes to this situation, creating a communication barrier that is compounded by the increasing ...

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