The lawsuit filed by the family of Johnny Peterson claims Impact Plastics endangered workers despite knowing the risks of flooding.

A 3M Company employee was helping set up a plastic extrusion line when they became caught in the machine’s rotating rollers and died, according to federal authorities. The 3M Company reported ...

Impact Plastics and its CEO, Gerald O'Connor, have been sued by the family of one of its Tennessee employees who was killed ...

Johnny Peterson was one of five Impact Plastic employees who died Sept. 27 in historic flooding in Erwin, Tennessee. His family said he died a hero.

What are the basic building blocks of plastics and how do they affect the processing of that material and its potential ...

Extrusion machines force or pull unformed material into alignment guides and shaped dies to produce lengths of stock forms and cross-sectional shapes. They are used mainly in the plastics, metals, and ...

This is a project-oriented course which utilizes current CAE programs to design extruder dies. This course will study the basic principles of extrusion die design and apply these principles in ...

"To our knowledge, no one perished while on company property," said Gerald O’Connor, founder and president of Impact Plastics ...

Plastics Technology Top Shops Benchmarking Survey provided both unanimous responses and divided results, but pervasive ...

While multicolor printing eliminates painting steps and produces vibrant objects, there are two significant downsides; filament consumption and print time. A single-nozzle filament printer needs ...

These last few months have been especially kind to lightweight direct-drive extruders, and [lorinczroby’s] Orbiter Extruder might just set a paradigm for a new kind of direct drive extruder that ...

It is possible to achieve representative results with a smaller quantity of plastics when using a lab extruder. This allows us to make more informed decisions when planning trials with larger ...