Multi-layered heat sealed lidding for rigid food containers

Optimized tool designs and careful control of conduction-based direct contact constant heat sealing are not enough. Lidding materials, especially the heat seal layer, must be appropriate for the container and the food inside.

The right lidding material choices keep ready-to-use food safe and tasty

Rigid packaging lidding requires multiple laminated or coated ...

Continue Reading >>

Sealing this rigid packaging is more complex than one would think

Choosing the right lidding and rigid container materials is not enough. You also need optimized tool design and control to get consistent, high-quality seals.

Spend any time in a grocery dairy section, and you see a tremendous variety of dairy products and variations offered for sale in plastic ...

Continue Reading >>

An Unforeseen Global Crisis

2020 began just like any other year. People celebrated as they watched the ball drop in Times Square with delightful and thunderous cheers. They toasted, hugged, and set New Year’s resolutions.  The sweet and faint smells lingered from the poetic sounds of busy restaurants where families and friends gathered. But little did we know ...

Continue Reading >>

ISM CEO Becomes Titan100 Recipient

Outstanding leadership isn’t easy to come by. It seems that only a small percentage of CEOs can continually grow a business while still earning the respect of their employees along the way. James Davis, ISM’s CEO and president, has managed to occupy that seat for 15 years since purchasing the company in 2006. He’s led by example, which has allowed ISM to thrive as a global distributor.

Continue Reading >>

Porous sintered bronze elements faq, applications beyond filtration plus references

An FAQ section about sintering, porous sintered bronze fuel filter elements and depth filters

Fine particles suspended in a fluid passing through a depth filter may impact or run into the filter material and stick or adhere to it. This particle impact and capture is called adsorption.

Depth filters have complex, meandering and irregular interconnecting pores ...

Continue Reading >>

About depth filtration and the porous filter elements used in fuel filters

Some Details About Bronze, Depth Filtration, Porous Bronze Filter Elements and How to Make Them

What is Bronze?
Traditionally, bronze is an alloy of copper and tin. Tin bronze is still the most common bronze alloy, and it usually has about 10 to 12% tin with copper making up most of the balance. Quite a few modern bronzes do not contain any tin at all.

Continue Reading >>

Benefits of porous sintered bronze filter elements and how they are made

Light duty carbureted vehicles, Outdoor Power Equipment (OPE) and Powersports are heavy users of plastic inline fuel filters. Inline fuel filters are easy and fast to replace and provide filtration protection from debris, fine particles and other contaminants.

These fuel filters are also widely marketed as OE original equipment parts and ...

Continue Reading >>

Plastics Shortage Hits Plastic Parts Supply Chain

Raw Material Shortages Plus High Demand Disrupts Production

Manufacturers using prime and engineering grade plastics face ongoing shortages, price increases and ...

Continue Reading >>

Quick disconnect fittings for pneumatic applications

Pneumatic quick disconnect couplings
Quick connect pneumatic (compressed air) fittings are paired as couplings. Pneumatic couplings provide lightweight tool-to-hose and other pneumatic connections that can be quickly and easily connected, disconnected and ...

Continue Reading >>

Quality plastic fuel filter housings should be durable, heat resistant and compatible with gasoline-ethanol blends

OE and OEM aftermarket small engine plastic inline fuel filters
Small plastic inline fuel filters provide small or carbureted internal combustion (IC) engines with additional protection from ...

Continue Reading >>