Extrusion: Film & Sheet

Through this transaction, industrial equipment company Hillenbrand (Batesville, IN) expects to generate approximately $3 billion in revenues and more than $325 million in free cash flow annually by 2021.

Weikert innovated product and manufacturing ideas in the plastics packaging industry starting in 1939.

Perstorp, a leading supplier of polyols, is launching a new renewable-based polyol ester (non-phthalate) plasticizer Pevalen Pro.

A new facility in Remington, IN, will add 60 million pounds to the company's AmTopp Division film extrusion production.

Department of Labor initiative also sets aside more than $200 million in grants to help close manufacturing skills gap.

Cardinal Manufacturing is hosting an event in October where administrators, instructors and other interested parties can learn how to replicate the successful program implemented at a high school in Strum, WI.

The founder of plastic film and sheet extrusion machinery supplier Macro Engineering and Technology Inc. (Mississauga, ON), Mirek Planeta holds more than 30 machinery and process patents.

Coextruded polypropylene film for MAP and other food packaging applications qualifies as a mono-material construction that's fully recyclable in existing waste streams.

Do the numbers, even if they are boring and repetitive. Data collection and acquisition tools allow you to see what has happened as well as what is happening. Get familiar with the numbers and how they vary. Average values aren’t enough.

Shipments of injection molding and extrusion equipment in North America declined 27.6% in Q1 2019 compared with the last quarter of 2018, reports the Plastics Industry Association’s Committee on Equipment Statistics (Washington, DC).