This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. When walking into any plastics processing plant, you’ll see a device called a temperature control unit, or TCU. A TCU ...

Resulting Nexus system saves 70% energy compared to standard heating practices and heat ramp-up time reduced by 80%.

Water-based mold temperature control units (TCUs) have been used in the thermoplastic injection molding industry for decades. They have repeatedly proven to be reliable tools for quickly and ...

AI optimizes injection molding beyond human understanding, creating new challenges for process control and failure recovery.

Plastics processing is a complex system of dialing in and maintaining quality parts as efficiently as possible. Companies with solid process setups start presses quickly, producing no more than three ...

One of the most common methods of converting plastics from the raw material form to an article of use is the process of injection moulding. This process is most typically used for thermoplastic ...

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, GERMANY -- PolyIC, a subsidiary of the hot stamping and coating group Leonhard Kurz Stiftung, has developed functional films that open the way for producing touch screen displays and ...