Fed chair Jerome Powell has often warned that rate hikes would negatively affect employment. Well, they haven’t.

Encouraging input from staff can help solve problems that often befuddle upper management.

All those new words and phrases boil down to one thing: There isn’t enough skilled labor to satisfy the needs of plastics processors.

While there are looming concerns for the plastics industry, a stable end market may usher in a strong year for well-positioned companies.

Just when he thought he was out and headed for early retirement, Paul Caprio is pulled back into the injection molding business by old pal Peter Gardner, now President of LS Mtron USA.

Depending on the region and seniority, some operations/manufacturing managers commanded a salary of more than $100 an hour in 2022.

Vice President of Supply Chain Megan Tzanoukakis will succeed Keith Everson at helm of custom injection molder.

Demand for skilled labor is surging, and salaries are a reflection of that. Maintenance specialists, for example, earned just under $100K, on average, in 2022, according to a plastics salary and trends survey.

The answer is absolutely yes, or definitely not, depending on who’s doing the talking.

In 2017, a worker became ensnared in a cluster of moving sheet extrusion rollers, which ultimately caused his death.