A TECHNICAL ARTICLE 2005 VOLUME 24, #1 Why is Part Design Important? Throughout this series of tutorials, we have assiduously1 avoided the issue of part design. And for good reasons. First and foremost, technologists of which I am one are normally not good designers. We tend to get hung up on the nuts- … Continued
A TECHNICAL ARTICLE 2007 VOLUME 26, #1 Process Cycle Time (Editors Note: This is the first Thermoforming 101 article written by your new technical editor. Dr. Throne wrote 34 articles that date back to 1998, Volume 17, Number 3. He had originally intended to write a series of 18 general interest articles but the … Continued
A TECHNICAL ARTICLE 2006 VOLUME 25, #3 The Cutting Edge For those of you who came in late, we have been examining the various aspects of part design. In this lesson, we focus on the edge or periphery of the part. The first thing we need to realize is that the part weve just thermoformed … Continued
A TECHNICAL ARTICLE 2006 VOLUME 25, #2 CORNERS Most plastic parts have corners. And most corners are radiused. Designers often seek sharp corners or more properly, corners with very small radii. Aesthetics is often cited as the reason for this. But aesthetics is not the only reason. Often the container must contain material of a … Continued
® Thermoforming Quarterly® A JOURNAL OF THE THERMOFORMING DIVISION OF THE SOCIETY OF PLASTIC ENGINEERS THIRD QUARTER 2011 n VOLUME 30 n NUMBER 3 Conference Edition MADE IN AMERICA Big Ideas Loom Large in U.S. Manufacturing NSIDE I 2011 Thermoformer of the Year page 7 Thermoforming 2.0: The Thermoformability Index pages 12-14 2011 Scholarship Winners … Continued
WWW.THERMOFORMINGDIVISION.COM Quarterly® Thermoforming NSIDE IA JOURNAL OF THE THERMOFORMING DIVISION OF THE SOCIETY OF PLASTIC ENGINEERS FOURTH QUARTER 2011 n VOLUME 30 n NUMBER 4 ® Special Commemorative Edition20 Years Strong Growth of the SPE Thermoforming Division pages 16-18 ANTEC Paper: Thermoformability of Radiation Cross Linked Polyamide 12 pages 22-28 2011 Parts Competition Winners pages … Continued
[This is one in a series of articles introducing general concepts in thermoforming.] . 101 Articles Index The collection of articles in this book is listed in chronological order with a summary of each one for easy reference. The first article appeared in the fall of 1998 and they continued in every Thermoforming Quarterly until … Continued
A TECHNICAL ARTICLE 2004 VOLUME 23, #2 Alphabet Soup? It seems that plastics people never tire of their alphabet soup ABS, PTFE, PVC, PUR, and on and on. The soup continues when we consider evaluating the characteristics of plastics. In this short series, we consider a few of the letters in this soup. Tg, … Continued
WWW.THERMOFORMINGDIVISION.COM Quarterly® Thermoforming NSIDE IA JOURNAL OF THE THERMOFORMING DIVISION OF THE SOCIETY OF PLASTIC ENGINEERS FOURTH QUARTER 2010 n VOLUME 29 n NUMBER 4 Report from Dusseldorf page 7 Energy Efficient Process Cooling page 12 Industry Review and Market Outlook page 16 ® Shifting Into Drive for 2011 WWW.THERMOFORMINGDIVISION.COM Quarterly® Thermoforming NSIDE IA JOURNAL … Continued
® Thermoforming Quarterly® A JOURNAL OF THE THERMOFORMING DIVISION OF THE SOCIETY OF PLASTIC ENGINEERS SECOND QUARTER 2011 n VOLUME 30 n NUMBER 2 The Future Is Now Thermoforming Center of Excellence at Penn College Workforce Development: New National Study Findings page 8 INSIDE University News: Two Top-Tier Student Papers page 14 Sustainability: Placon … Continued