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According to the PlasticsToday Salary Survey, the compensation and benefits packages are better than average, job satisfaction is overwhelmingly on the positive side and a stunning 91% of respondents said they still considered plastics processing...

An audience survey was conducted across three brands, PlasticsToday and sister publications Packaging Digest and Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, on the subject of phase outs of plastics and packaging...

Mexican auto assembly capacity is projected to more than double in size between 2010 and 2020, and there are many factors beyond low wages that continue to attract automakers and their suppliers to Mexico. We spoke with some U.S.-based plastics...

Erich Hoch started in the manufacturing business as a tool maker and joined Jabil in 2002. He was recently appointed CEO of Jabil Packaging Solutions. In this interview with PlasticsToday, he shares his insights on packaging trends and discusses...

The way we drive—or don’t, in the case of autonomous vehicles—is changing at an unprecedented pace. The 2020s could well be the decade of the electric car, as battery prices tumble and a new generation of high-voltage motors go into production...

Millennials have surpassed baby boomers as the nation’s largest living generation, according to population estimates released earlier this year by the U.S. Census Bureau. Those between the ages of 18 and 34 in 2015 now number 75.4 million...

None of us are getting any younger, to state the obvious. That demographic truth combined with a growing middle class, particularly in emerging economies, is the foundation of a consistent customer base for the medical technology industry. It also...

In today’s world, sustainability is no longer an option, but an essential design element in order to attract, relate to and retain consumers. To meet the needs of this burgeoning market, new uses for plastic packaging are being continuously...

Injection molding is the largest plastics processing sector, so we have to expect that molds, machinery and resins going into that segment will see good demand. However, at the end of 2015 and in early 2016, there was little to show that industry...

The U.S. auto industry had a banner year in 2015, with vehicle sales topping the previous record set in 2000—17.47 million vehicles sold compared with 17.35 million—but the sector is counting on emerging markets to drive car production to new...