Plastic can be used to manufacture products from packaging to aerospace. Manufacturers may use different methods to create and mold these products, but there will always be one constant — heat. If the heating solution is not efficient, productivity and quality will suffer, notes Clive Jones, managing director of thermal fluid specialist Global Heat Transfer.

Hubbell Heaters redesigned its website at www.hubbellheaters.com. The maker of industrial water heating systems incorporated streamlined navigation, dedicated market pages to simplify finding water heating solutions, a tabular RFQ form and a product filtering system that allows site visitors to sort results by market type, applications and fuel source.

With the GasTrac process air heaters, plastics processors can replace electricity with natural gas as a heat source for dehumidifying dryers and realize energy cost savings, says the manufacturer.

Charles Sears, the president of Dri-Air Industries Inc., East Windsor, Conn., passed away on August 5 after a recent battle with cancer.

Mike Banach was named regional general manager of Honeywell UOP India in New Dehli. Honeywell UOP supplies process technology to the petroleum refining, petrochemical and gas processing industries.

Manufactured (or synthetic) polymers were introduced in the 1800s, and since then, they have contributed significantly to our quality of life. Many products we rely on daily would not be possible without plastics, and those that would be possible without plastics have been vastly improved with plastics.

Microgel machine-side chiller/temperature control units (TCUs) with digital controls display and record historical process cooling energy data.

A man stood in the front of the room, holding a 12 by 12" card that looked like the most vibrant swatch I had seen. I wondered if he used the palette to select other colors for some of his art projects I could see surrounding him, or if the card represented an unusual new work.

Temperature controllers can handle heat-only control, heat/cool control or indicator-only applications on plastics extruders.

A dedicated service center established by R&D/Leverage USA can handle component repair for a range of mold and tool types, including injection, injection stretch blow, perform, injection blow, Sidel, Sipa, hot runner manifolds and extrusion.