POWER CRISIS?(use of electric injection-molding-machines over hydraulic machines would save energy)(Brief Article)

From: Industry Week | Date: March 19, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

MILICRON'S BARR KLAUS SEES AN OPPORTUNITY.

* If Barr Klaus were an economist he would address the national energy crunch in the same way that he approaches it at Milacron Inc.'s Elektron Technologies Business Unit--by promoting efficiency. As general manager of the Milacron unit, he is, ironically enough, encouraging his injection-molding-machine customers to abandon hydraulic machines for totally electric versions.

If the national population of injection molding machines--numbering about 120,000--were totally electric designs, the annual power savings would be about 15 ...

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