Editor?s note: Chris Rauwendaal is a designer, consultant, and seminar instructor who has written extensively on process engineering and extrusion topics. Part 1 of this article (PM&A Nov./Dec. 2002) ...

Guill Tool & Engineering has developed a reciprocal tubing die design. Unique features eliminate the need to weld or otherwise join sections with different profiles together. Traditional tip-and-die ...

Operators should watch for changes in line sound, vibration, melt appearance, surface quality, and cooling behavior.

Increasingly smaller medical devices require tighter tolerances that make extrusion process control more difficult. Photos courtesy of TEEL PLASTICS INC. As medical devices get smaller and tolerances ...

In order to improve the service life of extrusion taps and reduce their wear, this paper adopted the coating-simulation technology to investigate the influence laws of tool coating type and coating ...

TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Molded Devices, Inc. (MDI), a provider of high-precision, value-added plastic component manufacturing solutions for medical and non-medical applications, today announced ...

Bausano & Figli SpA, an Italy-based manufacturer of custom extrusion lines, has not had a strong presence in the United States, but that is changing. The family company has been designing and ...

Tubi USA Inc. is on a roll with mobile extrusion factories that can be packed onto flatbed trucks, hauled to project sites and set up within 72 hours to manufacture polyethylene pipes for drinking ...

While countless tubes are extruded or injection molded each year, these manufacturing techniques are neither the most optimal nor the most cost-effective methods available to medical device ...