Material Testing & Fabrication

The company’s line of engineering plastics now includes a variety of high-performance thin-gauge materials.

A comprehensive line of engineered bioplastic compounds use resins derived from renewable resources.

Magnesium injection molding (MAG) shapes parts out of magnesium alloy in a semifluid state, without the need of binders, resins, or sintering

Solar Power Industries Inc., Belle Vernon, Pa., used FEA software for a combined transient heat-transfer and CFD analysis that let the company reshape the hot zone of its “minicaster” — a miniature version of a directional solidification furnace that casts silicon ingots used in solar cells.

Load cell and torque/pressure-sensor maker Futek recently had problems assembling load cells to spec.

A stereolithography resin called ProtoCast AF19120 generated significantly less burnout ash when used to make casting patterns for key aerospace parts.

A Netting TrashTrap system from Fresh Creek Technologies Inc., Cedar Grove, N.J., captures floating trash and debris before they disrupt sewer systems or pollute waterways.

“A number of health-care packaging trends, including demand for better clarity and greater emphasis on patient and caregiver safety, have highlighted the drawbacks in monolayer packaging made from glass and plastic,” says John Davis, technical manager, Healthcare, GE Plastics, Pittsfield Mass.

A Netting TrashTrap system from Fresh Creek Technologies Inc., took the wastewater industry by storm, capturing floating trash and debris before it can disrupt sewer systems or pollute waterways.

Photochemically etched surface-mount and insertmount lead frames are for use in integrated circuit manufacturing.

Those who plunk down $30,000 on a Harley Davidson chopper want nothing more than to trick it out to make it their own.

Enthobrite CLZ-970 bright-acid zinc-plating process provides the high productivity of a water-soluble process and improves plate distribution and deposit properties at any chloride level.

Permanent graphite molds and a knowledgeable metal-casting house can help designers of zinc-aluminum-alloy parts go from art to part in less than six weeks.

A radical technique that insert-molds a 1.5-in.-diameter chrome tube inside glass-filled polypropylene (PP) gave a brush grille guard for GM SUVs and trucks the top automotive prize in an annual plastic parts competition.