Processing 
Mouldmaker Dekkerform Technologies received the Euromold 2011 silver innovation award for a three-component mono-sandwich process for one- or two-colour parts subjected to high static loads. Glass fibre reinforced polyamide can be substituted by relatively inexpensive unreinforced PP outer/edge and 50% glass fibre reinforced PP core material, as it is in the new 2011 Fina chair from Brunner.
12 January 2012
Representatives from global rotomoulding companies met in Northern Ireland recently to hear about the latest developments of the European Commission-backed Rotoflex Project.
23 December 2011
Interfoam Holding, the parent group of the top polyurethane foam producer in the Ukraine, has postponed a public offering of shares to fund an ambitious expansion plan in the face of “unfavourable macroeconomic conditions”.
6 December 2011
High performance seals are often key in cost effective moulding. European Plastics News visited Sonderhoff Chemicals and Sonderhoff Services in Germany to learn about the latest developments in formed-in-place-foam gasket (FIPFG) systems
25 November 2011
Automation group Waldorf Technik, based in Engen, Germany, has introduced Check'n Pack, a system for inspecting and verifying the quality of the EVOH layer in PP-EVOH-PP barrier packaging.
23 November 2011
German colourant specialist Novosystems has developed a new Novopearls microgranulate to “fill the gap between liquid colours and conventional batch granulate.”
17 October 2011
Artenius PET Packaging Europe, Distrupol and Engel UK were among the winners at Friday’s glittering Plastics Industry Awards, which were held in the London Hilton on Park Lane.
17 October 2011
London-based shoe designer, Marloes ten Bhömer, has used Objet's 3D printing technology to create the Rapidprototypedshoe, which is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Power of Making exhibition
8 September 2011
IPF, a UK prototyping bureau, has adopted a range of transparent materials from 3D printing systems manufacturer, Objet
1 September 2011
Granta Design and Firehole Composites are working together on software that will help designers improve their work with composite materials
22 July 2011
Rapid prototyping specialist Objet Geometrics has introduced three new resins for use in its three-dimensional printers
20 June 2011
US company Air Motion Systems and Spain’s Mag-D-Print demonstrated an LED UV cured printing system for thermally-sensitive plastic substrates at the Graphispaf trade fair in Barcelona last week
29 March 2011
The CAE specialist has worked with materials database developer Granta Design to add a new sustainability module to the latest version of its Inventor software
29 March 2011
Kunststoff Institut LŸdenscheid (KIMW) has developed a way of producing mould inserts using the fused deposition modelling (FDM) process
8 February 2011
Euromold has grown to become a key meeting point for the product design and development community, with a key focus on additive manufacturing and prototyping technologies. European Plastics News reports
7 February 2011
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