Extrusion: Film & Sheet

DFMA 2019 uses an intuitive question-and-answer interface to identify opportunities for substantial cost reduction in a product.

Although U.S. molders are not anticipating significant capital expenditures in 2019, they are largely optimistic about business prospects in general.

The 2019 edition of China’s leading plastics show plans to tap into emerging regions as the Chinese plastics industry and end user players expand overseas.

The move marks a first step in global capacity expansion for films.

Pilot products made working with 10 customers from various industries include mozzarella packaging, refrigerator components and insulation panels.

In this time of celebration, keeping our spirits up when the sun is down greatly involves extrusion.

These 10 were the best-read among many dozens of plastics packaging articles published since January 1.

The preliminary estimate of shipments of primary plastics equipment (injection molding and extrusion) for reporting companies totaled $349.4 million in the third quarter, a 4.1% increase from the revised $335.5 million second-quarter results.

The new electric, hybrid and hydraulic machines will expand Saline, MI–based R&B Plastics Machinery’s portfolio of blowmolding machinery for the consumer packaging, automotive and industrial markets.

Oden Technologies (New York, NY) introduced what it is calling industry’s first end-to-end machine learning and artificial intelligence framework for manufacturing. The open framework features algorithms and data science tools for extrusion and...