Hot-runner maker Mold–Masters Ltd. and Abba Systems Ltd., a precision machining company, have joined forces to sell PET preform molds, they announced at the Drinktec trade show in Munich. The two ...

When it came to working with PET and designing the right mold, William “Bill” Gaiser was a pioneer and innovator. Gaiser, 88, who developed the first PET preform, died Aug. 18 from complications from ...

Preforms have been used for almost 80 years in infusion molding processes. For most of that history, however, the vast majority were made with chopped glass fibers directed over perforated metal forms ...

iComposite 4.0 aims to develop an integrative and self-regulating process chain to produce adaptive, automated preforms, resin-infused and consolidated via an intelligent HP-RTM process into ...

What if you could drive 50% farther on the same tank of gas? Would you do it? Of course you would, said MHT Mold & Hotrunner Technology AG (Hochheim am Main, Germany), a preform manufacturer who uses ...

AFTER A DECADE OF ANNUAL GROWTH RATES of more than 10 percent, the global rate of demand for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers has slowed somewhat, to about 8 percent. But that growth ...