Gas-assisted injection
While the technology as such is not new, recent developments have boosted efficiency, taking it to a new level.
Universal Plastics Corp., a Massachusetts-based heavy-gauge thermoformer, is expanding its processing capabilities through the purchase of Sajar Plastics LLC. Sajar, based in Middlefield, Ohio, specializes in gas-assist injection molding.
Michael Ladney, who played a key role in automotive plastics with his Detroit Plastic Molding Co., and became a contentious, litigious figure on the gas-assisted injection molding sector, died on April 18 in Port Huron, Mich.
Cinpres Gas Injection Ltd. has ceased manufacturing of its gas injection molding systems.
Dutch-Polish industrial precision component molder Bianor Sp. z.o.o. is already expanding the production plant it opened in Ploiesti, Romania in May last year.
James Hendry, the father of gas-assisted injection molding, died May 24 at his home in Brooksville, Fla.
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