Extrusion: Pipe & Profile

Talent Talk: How to Craft Your Employer Value Proposition

Feb 26, 2021

To maximize your company’s hiring brand and attract top talent, brainstorm your employer value proposition. Here are 10 topics to get things rolling.

Talent Talk: What Is Your Hiring Brand?

Feb 22, 2021

As many as three-quarters of job seekers will consider an employer’s brand before applying to a position, studies show. Employer branding is a key tool for attracting and retaining top performers.

Plastic Possibilities: Interview with Perc Pineda

Feb 18, 2021

Perc Pineda, PhD, Chief Economist at the Plastics Industry Association, discusses the performance of the plastics sector in 2020 and offers insights on how 2021 might play out.

Extrusion Basics: Don’t Have a Cow over Purity

Feb 11, 2021

We think we want to buy the purest plastics possible, but that’s ignoring numbers, something humans are good at.

Pipe Extrusion Line in Mexico Has World’s Largest Adjustable Melt Gap

Feb 10, 2021

The extrusion line from battenfeld-cincinnati can rapidly and flexibly produce pipes in diameters up to 1,600 mm without requiring die changeovers.

Talent Talk: I Wish You Looked at Me the Way You Look at Saturday. Love, Monday

Feb 07, 2021

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, take a moment to ask yourself how much you love your job. Would you buy it some flowers, or would it just get a card?

Twin-Screw Extruders with Multidrive Now Available in North America

Feb 01, 2021

The patented Multidrive system, developed by Italian extrusion technology company Bausano, decreases stress on the motor assembly, improves precision, and reduces energy use.

Talent Talk: Hiring Strategies Your Company Can Learn from Super Bowl Teams

Jan 30, 2021

Take a page out of the playbooks of the NFL’s winningest teams to get ahead of your competitors.

ABS Gets Metal Makeover, Molder Shifts from Lipstick to COVID Tests, and Other News from the Plastics Supply Chain

Jan 29, 2021

In this week’s roundup: Pre-colored ABS that achieves a metallic effect without secondary processing and a cosmetics molder that converted equipment to manufacture plastic parts for a COVID-19 test kit.

Talent Talk: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Jan 25, 2021

In last week’s column, we laid out the benefits of changing jobs every few years. But there are also compelling reasons to stay put, not the least of which is the plastics industry's impulse to promote employees to leadership positions from within.

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