26. SHIPPING CONTAINERS Container Sizes: 20-and 40-foot lengths and in two heights: 8'6" and 9'6". NYK has adopted the size standards of the ISO (International Organization for Standardization ), as their standard/average size, enabling containers to be handled anywhere by any equipment.
In blow molding a heated plastic tube called the parison is inflated in a mold to form a hollow part. In more detail, process steps are parison is formed between mold halves mold closes around the parison sealing one end of the parison closing the parison around a mandrel at the other end parison is inflated by air blown through hollow mandrel or needle in side of parison cooling and solidification of the part mold opening and part ejection During this process the resin raw material is melted in the machine barrel, forced over a spreader and through the die head into the mold. The mold halves are held on platens which ride on tie rods or tie bars.