Posted on 1/19/2016
If you go to a machine tool or plastics trade show, one thing you notice immediately is that every manufacturer of primary machinery (CNC machines, injection molding machines, blowmolding machines) not only has a large booth filled with equipment, but that equipment is also running, producing products and showing the capabilities of the technology and the exhibitor
At a composites exhibition, however, this is typically not the case. Composites manufacturing is often not conducive to a trade show environment, where resin application can get messy and smelly, especially in open-mold processes.
The evolution toward closed-mold processes might be changing this trend, however. For the last several years, most of the world's major compo...