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  • January 2025

    • January 2025

    GPainnova
    The DLyte TurboFlow from GPainnova provides mirror-smooth finishes to molds.
    Molds & Tooling

    DLyte TurboFlow delivers smooth finishes

    Karen Hanna
    Jan. 14, 2025
    The technology from GPainnova helps prevent friction, mold damage and corrosion, and enables easy part release.
    Shining 3D
    Shining 3D's EinScan Libre is a fully wireless scanner.
    Product Innovations

    EinScan Libre is fully wireless

    Karen Hanna
    Jan. 13, 2025
    The scanner from Shining 3D has a built-in screen and on-board processor.
    Micro-Epsilon
    The optoControl 2700-10 micrometer from Micro-Epsilon offers a high degree of accuracy.
    Product Innovations

    Micro-Epsilon micrometer is highly accurate

    Karen Hanna
    Jan. 10, 2025
    The optoControl 2700-10 can be used for diameter, gap, edge and segment measurements.
    Geiss
    The Geiss T11 thermoforming machine has a revamped user interface.
    Thermoforming

    Geiss thermoformer has upgraded control

    Karen Hanna
    Jan. 10, 2025
    The T11's interface is customizable and provides control over nearly every cycle variable.
    KraussMaffei
    KraussMaffei's LRXplus linear robots feature the new MC7 controller.
    Product Innovations

    KraussMaffei linear robots offer multiple upgrades

    Karen Hanna
    Jan. 9, 2025
    The LRXplus series features the user-friendly MC7 controller and has better crash resistance.

    More content from January 2025

    Rechner
    Rechner's Ti-level sensors readjust to changing material characteristics in real time.
    Product Innovations

    Rechner sensors adjust in real time

    Karen Hanna
    Jan. 8, 2025
    The Ti-Level sensors are ideal for users who handle multiple kinds of materials or regrind.
    PMM
    A recycling bin awaits collection on a curb in Akron, Ohio.
    Recycling

    Recycling success story proves education works 

    Lynne Sherwin
    Jan. 8, 2025
    The city of Akron, Ohio, has sharply reduced its contamination level, and its program is now generating revenue.
    Oerlikon HRSflow
    Corrosion-resistant valve-gate end rings are available for Oerlikon's Tp and Vp hot runner nozzles.
    Molds & Tooling

    Oerlikon hot runners can process corrosive materials

    Karen Hanna
    Jan. 7, 2025
    Multiflow Tp and Vp nozzles now offer corrosion-resistant external valve-gate end rings.
    Absolute Haitian
    Like other OEMs, Haitian has been incorporating more intelligent features into its injection molding machines, to make them more user-friendly and help manufacturers deal with ongoing skilled-labor shortages.
    Manufacturing

    Will the plastics machinery market rebound in 2025?

    Lynne Sherwin
    Jan. 7, 2025
    Survey respondents, OEMs are divided on prospects for the new year as economic uncertainty continues.
    Wittmann
    Wittmann's Drymax Plus dryers offer the energy-saving EcoDrive feature.
    Product Innovations

    Wittmann adds EcoDrive to Drymax Plus line

    Karen Hanna
    Jan. 6, 2025
    The feature automatically adjusts to material requirements to save energy and avoid damaging resins.
    Stork
    At Fakuma 2024, Stork showed a specially designed Food-line 4400-3550 injection molding machine for turning recycled PET into packaging.
    Injection Molding

    Stork IMM produces thin-wall rPET containers

    Karen Hanna
    Jan. 3, 2025
    The high-speed Food-line 4400-3550 is specially designed to handle recycled material.