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EuroMold 2008
December 3 - 6 - Frankfurt, Germany

The World Fair for Mold-making and Tooling, Design and Application Development. Last year, 61.720 visitors from 83 countries came to Frankfurt to get informed. 

Plastics & Rubber Indonesia
December 3-6
Jakarta, Indonesia

The 21st International Plastics and Rubber Machinery, Processing and Materials Exhibitions. Incorporating : Mould &
Die Indonesia.


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Molding 2009
January 26-29, 2009
 New Orleans, LA 

 

Sustainable Package Design Conference 2009

January 27-28, 2009
Clearwater Beach, Florida

 


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Multi-Process Disease in Hot Runner Molds 

By Rod Groleau, Chairman RJG, Inc. 

All hot runner molds are not created equal.  We have all seen the application where using a hot runner mold resulted in more scrap and more
regrind instead of its elimination.  Why
would this be?  It seems really simple.  You heat the channel where the plastic
flows, pressurize the injection unit and the plastic flows into each cavity.  So what is so complicated?  Why wouldn’t that just always happen in a repeatable way?

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BOOK OF THE
MONTH


Globality: Compet-ing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything



By Harold L. (Hal) Sirkin 

Globalization is about Americans outsourcing product development and services to other countries. Globality is the next step, where rapidly developing economies from around the world are now competing with us head to head.

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