News and Releases
AGS Screw Design Optimizes Distributive Mixing
Most custom injection molding companies use a general purpose screw design in their machines to process the widest range of plastic materials. From the very beginning, AGS Technology has specified a mixing screw design. AGS’ initial injection molding screw...
Carbon Black-Use In Recycled Plastics
Carbon black has many applications in plastics. Carbon black is typically dispersed into a plastic master batch concentrate at a high dosage, 15% to 50% by weight. Concentrate allows AGS Technology to utilize carbon black in a pre-dispersed pellet form...
Injectoblend™ Helps Varisport Kick Ash
Varisport, a manufacturer of commercial slideboards used in professional sports performance training facilities, fitness gyms, and physical therapy offices was looking to replace costlier ash wood bumpers on their home line of slideboards.
Recycling Today: AGS and iMFLUX Addressing Molding Challenges of Regrind
Article in Recycling Today summarizes low constant pressure processing technology and highlights successful results of an AGS Technology and iMFLUX partnership.
AGS Technology Exhibiting at APACC 17th Annual East-West Business Connection
AGS Technology is exhibiting at the Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce (APACC) East-West Business Connection March 5, 2020 in Livonia-MI. Visit our booth to meet the AGS team and discuss your opportunity.
Plastics In Motion 2020 Conference
AGS Technology's George Staniulis will be a Speaker at the Plastics In Motion 2020 conference, March 11th at 3:00PM in New Orleans, LA. George will be co-presenting "Automotive Applications of Low-Constant Pressure Technology to Injection-Mold Recycled Plastics"...
Fingerprinting Glass Reinforced Materials
Every plastic material has a unique performance "fingerprint" that identifies not only the polymer type but reinforcement level as well. AGS Technology's raw material testing laboratory has the equipment and skilled personnel to run and analyze the corresponding...
Plastics Profiler-Glass Fiber In Polypropylene
Unfilled polypropylene has rather low impact and stiffness. As a result, polypropylene materials are often modified to improve their mechanical properties. To improve stiffness the polypropylene can be compounded with short glass fiber (SGF-PP) or long...
Plastics Profiler-Polypropylene Copolymer
Polypropylene copolymer is a crystalline thermoplastic that starts with polymer grade propylene with 1-7% ethylene monomer added during bulk polymerization. Comonomer content and molecular weight distribution can be controlled in the reactor allowing for a wide range...
AGS Machine Modifications to Process Regrind
Working with up to 100% regrind represents its own set of processing challenges. Based on experience and continuous improvement AGS mitigates regrind related processing issues with specially modified injection molding machines: Material conveying...