In the composites industry, compression molding is among the apparently simplest processes available for fabrication: Insert material, close mold, add pressure, add heat, wait, cool mold, open mold, ...

CHICAGO (Aug. 17, 6:10 p.m. EDT) — Sacmi Imola S.C. of Imola, Italy, introduced a 24-station compression molding press that it said produces blemish-free plastic caps with diameters up to 70 ...

Owens-Illinois Inc. is launching a pioneering effort to compression mold billions of preforms on proprietary equipment that the company said could lower production costs significantly. The project - ...

The hybrid-composite rear load floor uses unidirectional (UD) thermoplastic tapes plus direct-long-fiber thermoplastic (D-LFT) composites. Thermoplastic tapes provided high stiffness/strength in a ...

Visitors to NPE, June 23-27 in Chicago, will therefore see many complete manufacturing cells in addition to standalone injection machines. One of the more interesting demonstrations will be the ...