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8 Tips for Plastics Processors to Build a Growth Strategy During Uncertain Times

Jun 09, 2020

Throughout this unprecedented crisis, processors learned it's important to be flexible and prepared. Even the best molders & extruders are being forced to adapt to the unexpected. While we all prefer the excitement (and profitability) of growth...

Changing Colors, Rising Costs: How To Reduce Thermoplastic Molding Scrap With The Right Purging Agent

Dec 13, 2019

Every processor has struggled with lost production during color or material changes. These tips will help you improve efficiency and impress your boss by saving your company money. High numbers of defects due to material and color changes become...

Real-world solutions to the plastic waste challenge

Sep 28, 2019

When China stopped accepting recycled materials from the United States and Europe, it exposed the shortcomings of mechanical recycling. Fortunately, existing and emerging technologies offer other solutions to the plastic waste dilemma. This...

Injection molding design: The 10 keys to success

Aug 19, 2019

There are 10 parameters that design engineers must keep front of mind when designing parts for injection molding, but they are all predicated on one simple, low-cost method for ensuring perfect molded parts: It’s called partnering with your molder...

Special report: The car of the future, powered by plastics

Sep 25, 2018

Electric vehicles will account for more than half of global light-duty vehicle sales by 2040, according to market watcher Bloomberg New Energy Finance. This trend toward electrification, not to mention the other key megatrend of autonomous...

Future of Flexible Packaging Infographic

Sep 05, 2018

The Flexible Packaging Association (Annapolis, MD) depicts in an information- and graphic-rich PDF the essentials of the FPA’s extensive 194-page report, “A Holistic View of the Role of Flexible Packaging in a Sustainable World.” By downloading...

Special report: Analysts predict rosy outlook for U.S. plastics industry in 2018

Jan 30, 2018

The domestic plastics industry has been in constant expansion since hitting bottom during the Great Recession. It will maintain that momentum in 2018, and perhaps even accelerate it. Moreover, the world economy seems to be in lockstep...

Salary Survey: Employees in plastics processing industry overwhelmingly satisfied with their career choice

Nov 09, 2017

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...

Exclusive plastics phase out poll results 2017

May 24, 2017

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...

U.S.-Mexico breakup would hurt injection molders and suppliers on both sides of the border

Feb 04, 2017

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...

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