Electronics
Get Ideas from IMDA Award Winners In IML, IMD & In-Mold Electronics
Winners of the annual IMDA Awards Competition highlight aesthetics, functionality, sustainability—and even COVID-19 protection.
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Is Your Cleanroom Operating Correctly?
Monitor your cleanroom remotely on your phone and get alarm notices if sensors detect a problem.
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Roctool Deployed by Rosti for a More Durable, Paint-Free Enclosure
Rosti turned to Roctool’s induction mold-heating technology to consolidate components in the enclosure and extend its service life.
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Chinaplas 2021 Kicks Off In Person
Postponed, rescheduled and ultimately cancelled in 2020, Chinaplas has returned this week with an in-person event featuring 3600 exhibitors in Shenzhen.
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‘First’ Carbon Fiber Smartphone Developed by German Startup
Lanxess Tepex dynalite 208 TPU is the matrix material for Carbon Mobile’s ultra-thin and extremely light smartphone.
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Closed-Loop Recycling Makes Old Printer Cartridges New Again
Canon runs a big recycling operation in Virginia where it collects and sorts toner cartridges, pelletizes the scrap, then molds new cartridges from the reclaim.
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Polyolefin Supplier Repsol and IMSE Provider TactoTek to Develop Optimized PP for Smart Surfaces
Repsol and TectoTek seek to jointly develop new PP-based Injection Molded Structural Electronics (IMSE).
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European Machinery Suppliers See Steadying Markets
After a sharp drop in activity at the start of the year, the German plastics and rubber machinery sector has corrected with 2020 orders tracking only 3% below 2019 levels, while Austria’s Engel and Wittmann Battenfeld saw North American bright spots.
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Protolabs Accelerates Development Time for Covid-19 Contract Tracing Device
Protolabs helped a contact tracing and social distancing system move from idea to finished product in six weeks, permitting its manufacturer to get back to work and make thousands more of the devices that have subsequently allowed other businesses to come back online.
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How to Automate High-Precision ‘Micro’ Insert Molding
What does it take to automate a horizontal injection molding cell to handle micro-sized inserts and molded parts? General-purpose top-entry robots and tooling may not be up to the job.
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