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 ...

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) ...

HPM Div., Taylor?s Industrial Services? Prodex line of extruders is used primarily in the tube, profile, and small pipe product areas. A 20-ft-long, 16-inch-wide vacuum sizing tank from CDS is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Angel investors understand the high stakes of funding new technologies. The journey is fraught with financial, technical and market risks—but when a groundbreaking well-designed innovation meets the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With its diverse portfolio of polymer testing and sensing equipment, Dynisco is bringing rheology to the masses. Rheology is the investigation of the ­flow and deformation behavior of materials when ...

ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pexco LLC, a leading North American specialty plastics extruder, is pleased to announce the acquisition of American Extruded Plastics, Inc. (AEP) and American ...