Extrusion: Pipe & Profile

From when to turn on the heat to swapping out the screw, it’s worth questioning some long-held extrusion practices.

You have just accepted a very good offer from another company in your industry with more responsibility and a bigger salary. When you submit your resignation, your company makes a very generous counteroffer. Now what?

Sun Plastech Inc., manufacturer and distributor of Asaclean Purging Compounds, changed its name to Asahi Kasei Asaclean Americas at the beginning of this month. It initially joined the Asahi Kasei Group nearly 25 years ago as one of the Japanese...

The two-day Plastics in Medical Manufacturing: The Virtual Edition, presented by the SPE Medical Plastics Division, is scheduled for Aug. 11 and 12, 2020. In October, the conversation will continue in a live setting, when the co-located Medical...

If you are living the “quarantine 15,” you need to look at things like your diet, exercise, and ways to deal with stress. Similar to the cold hard truth regarding our health, the fact is that every employer wants to hire people with a track record...

Tests conducted by Coperion and Lummus Novolen Technology show that a process for producing polypropylene (PP) pellets achieves reliability, regardless of throughput rates and melt viscosity. Melt-blown PP forms the raw material for nonwovens used...

The international trade fair for plastics processing will return to Friedrichshafen, Germany, on Oct. 12 to 16, 2021.

You probably have heard about the “war for talent,” but when you're trying to close a deal with an industry rock star, the competition is better compared to a race, and the race always goes to the swiftest.

Some die gaps are adjustable, either by hand or automatically, and some are not. Regardless, more thickness management is possible with the three “SSD tools” — swell, shrinkage, and drawdown.

Clare Goldsberry attended her first NPE show in 1994 and, in the process, discovered that Chicago was her kind of town. Things have changed: This year, the Windy City is expected to lose $747 million after the cancellation of 33 trade shows and...