It is impossible to ignore the fact that communication is not what it used to be. We all remember the times when reaching someone from another city, let alone another country, would take at least one week, and now you can reach them within seconds and update them on your day-to-day. Nowadays, social media has…

Solve process issues and problems by joining our monthly troubleshooting call on May 25 at 2 PM Central. This call will be moderated by Ron Cooke (ExxonMobil Chemical Company) and Sandy Scaccia (Norstar). These calls are an opportunity for molders to inquire about any challenges in their process and share solutions with one another. Recently we’ve…

Registration is now open for regional meetings in Orange County, California (Holiday Inn Buena Park) and Toronto, Ontario (Holiday Inn Yorkdale). Our meeting chairs, Mario Poma and Ron Cooke, have been working with staff and other key rotomolders to create a valuable and inexpensive event for all levels of your rotomolding staff. If you register…

We often hear how the rotomoulding process is made up of a number of discrete events. I broke them down into seven, though I’m sure looking through the microscope you could find more. Powder heating Powder laying down (melting) Consolidation Melt cooling Solidification Releasing from the mould Post release cooling If we look closer though…

ARM is saddened to share the news that Lothar Zillian, a member of the Rotational Molding Hall of Fame and the founding president of ARM Australasia, has passed away. Below is the speech from Lothar’s 2002 induction in the Hall of Fame:

Safety in rotomolding presents some unique challenges. From heat stress to head injuries there are multiple opportunities to go out on “injured reserve” as they say in the big leagues. SCI (Stern Companies Inc.) is looking at ways to prevent injuries through training and engineering solutions as opposed to simply providing the appropriate PPE. New…

For twenty years, students from the Milwaukee Institute of Design have been visiting Matt Bushman, President of Plasticraft Corp in Darien, Wisc. every fall to learn about the rotational molding process. And every spring Bushman visits the Materials and Methods III class taught by Senior Professor Pascal Malassigné to review students’ designs for their rotational…

In addition to our Rotolink emails and this blog, you can get news and value from ARM on social media. ARM’s LinkedIn Group has more than 1,300 members from the worldwide rotomolding industry. It features news from ARM staff, technical and process questions from members, and occasional job listings. ARM’s Facebook page used to be focused…

The ARM Executive Forum in Las Vegas was a great a networking opportunity and once again the Forum included some of the greatest ARM presentations of the last years.   About ten years ago, ARM stopped conducting our Spring Meeting, which had been  like a second convention. In 2009, the Association held its first Executive Forum, a…