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Plastics

Blow-Off Air in Plastic Injection Molding
By Hank Van Ormer, Air Power USA
Over the last several decades, Air Power USA has reviewed many various types of plastic injection molding operations throughout the U.S.
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AMCOR PET Packaging
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Preserving the planet and sustaining business growth work hand-in-hand at Amcor's PET Packaging business. Product design plays a key role.
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Bottling System Air Recovery at NPE 2009
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The NPE2009 international plastics showcase was held June 22-26 in Chicago’s McCormick Place. While attendance was down from NPE2006, the preliminary total of visitor registrations numbered 44,000. Sustainability and energy efficiency was a prominent topic in the booths of exhibitors. Manufacturers of compressed air and injection molding equipment had many developments with Sustainability to show the visitors to NPE2009.
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Dr. Pepper Snapple Group
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DPS is an integrated beverage business that serves its customers and consumers via a broad and flexible distribution network.
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PepsiCo Reduces Electricity Consumption by 9%
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In 2007, PepsiCo agreed on rigorous, corporation-wide global metrics to help us better track and understand our environmental footprint. Our goal is to reduce water consumption by 20 percent, reduce electricity consumption 20 percent, and reduce fuels consumption by 25 percent per unit of production by 2015 as compared to our 2006 consumption.
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Coca-Cola Energy Efficiency
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The Coca-Cola Company uses energy and contributes to emissions through energy consumption at our offices and bottling plants. In our bottling plants around the world, we are investing to improve our energy efficiency.
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Plastic Injection Molder Saves Energy
By Gary Shafer, iZ Systems
The facility is a plastics injection blowmolder and is a division of a large corporation. The following information was produced from a compressed air system assessment done over seven days in 2008.
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Energy-Saving Compressed Air Resin Dryers
By Rod Smith, Compressed Air Best Practices
Resin drying is a critical step in the manufacturing process of injection molding, extrusion molding and stretch blow molding.  Compressed air resin dryers are one of the most commonly used dryers in the plastics molding industry. Recent advancements in compressed air membrane-type resin dryers, have reduced the associated energy costs significantly.
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Sustainability at Millipore
By Rod Smith, Compressed Air Best Practices
Compressed Air Best Practices interviewed Paul Lukitsch.  Mr. Lukitsch is the Regional Facilities & Energy Manager for Millipore Corporation.
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