An employee at Hoffer Plastics works on an all-electric Engel e-mac 195 injection molding machine appropriate for making medical devices, electronics and packaging. When it comes to her employees, co-CEO Gretchen Hoffer Farb calls herself a 'mama bear'.

Family companies stay true to their roots

June 24, 2025

Hoffer Plastics, Rocheleau Tool & Die leaders feel responsibility to be good stewards of legacies.

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Poll: Is your company ready to take on new business?

June 10, 2025

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EBM publications cover tariffs and more

Feb. 5, 2025

Tell us about K 2025 debuts, influential figures, success stories

Jan. 12, 2024

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Tips for buying or selling a plastics business: Machinery Minutes

June 23, 2025

Kistler's AkvisIO 7.0 tracks cycles and other machine data.

Injection Molding

Kistler system tailored for injection molding

June 20, 2025

Injection Molding

Takumi's H10 three-axis bridge milling machine has an upgraded Fanuc 0i-XL control.

Molds & Tooling

Takumi upgrades H10 bridge milling machine

June 24, 2025

Marko Koorneef is president of Boy Machines Inc.

Injection Molding

Marko Koorneef is planning for growth

June 19, 2025

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Mergers, acquisitions provide off-ramp for departing plastics business owners

June 18, 2025

Extrusion

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Plastics machinery shipments fall again: Machinery Minutes

June 16, 2025

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Plastics machinery shipments drop again in Q1 2025

June 12, 2025

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Is the budget bill good for plastics?

June 12, 2025

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Manufacturing

WrenchML from Bucket Robotics eliminates the need to provide images of good and bad parts for defect recognition.

Product Innovations

Vision platform uses CAD files as models

June 23, 2025

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Plastics and rubber unemployment rate rises to 5.7 percent

June 18, 2025

The Sonderhoff DM80 from Henkel was designed for assembling plastic aircraft components.

Product Innovations

Henkel system dispenses bonding materials

June 18, 2025

The current Yaskawa America facility in Franklin, Wisc., will be expanded and become the new headquarters for the Drives & Motion division.

Yaskawa America announces expansion

June 17, 2025

The Elevate-LC3 IC lifting column from Linak acts as a seventh axis to extend a cobot's reach.

Elevate gives your cobot a boost

June 17, 2025

Blow Molding

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SPE Blow Molding Division plans annual conference

June 4, 2025

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Plastics Hall of Fame names 2025 inductees

June 2, 2025

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Plastic sustainability goals face headwinds

May 28, 2025

A worker welds a part for a new blow molding machine at Bekum America.

Bekum America sparks a winning strategy

May 20, 2025

Molds & Tooling

Anca's MX7 platform can create high-performance cutting tools.

Molds & Tooling

Anca MX7 makes tool grinding easier

June 20, 2025

'Mold-Ready' blade ejectors from Progressive Components come finished with various features.

Molds & Tooling

Blade ejectors are 'Mold-Ready'

June 19, 2025

Mold-Masters' new service facility will cover the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico.

Molds & Tooling

Mold-Masters opens Phoenix customer support facility

June 16, 2025

Guill's reciprocating head for medical tubing has been upgraded.

Guill head features new cam-lock design

June 16, 2025

Recycling

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Robert 'Bob' Bunting dies at 76

June 19, 2025

Danimer Scientific, a producer of bioresins, has been acquired by Teknor Apex.

Teknor Apex acquires Danimer Scientific

June 11, 2025

An employee works on an extruder screw at 3S, part of the Erema Group.

Erema reports 13 percent revenue drop in fiscal year 2024-25

June 10, 2025

Katrin Fricke

Katrin Fricke is new head of Tomra Recycling

June 10, 2025

Additive Manufacturing

The North American Stratasys Tooling Center operates F3300 and F900 printers.

Additive Manufacturing

Stratasys establishes tooling center

June 16, 2025

The Elegoo Centauri Carbon is ready to print right out of the box.

Additive Manufacturing

Elegoo printer handles variety of materials

June 13, 2025

The Lynxter S300X-LIQ21/LIQ11 printer can print industrial-grade RTV silicone and PU.

Additive Manufacturing

Lynxter rolls out upgrades for printer

June 6, 2025

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Additive Manufacturing

Stratasys acquires Forward AM assets and operations

May 27, 2025

Features

ITW Deltar Fasteners is proud of its efficient use of space and narrow aisles, as manufacturing engineer Phil Dunn demonstrates.

Injection Molding

Wittmann helps ITW do more with less space

June 11, 2025

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Budget bill isn't perfect, but it boosts plastics

June 5, 2025

Jay Waddell at Victoria Falls, on the Zambezi River in Africa.

Jay Waddell knows thermoforming

May 21, 2025

Cobots employ laser safety scanners so they can work in close proximity to people.

Enhancing workplace safety in manufacturing environments

Eric J. Halvorson

May 20, 2025

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Thermoforming

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Tim Carpenter is new CEO of BMG

June 23, 2025

A tray produced with a Sealpac F-series thermoformer.

Sealpac debuts tray thermoformer

May 30, 2025

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SPE Thermoforming Division names parts competition winners

May 29, 2025

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Greg McCunn earns SPE Thermoforming Lifetime Achievement Award

May 21, 2025

Compounding

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Bay Plastics Machinery names rotor sales rep

March 26, 2025

Plastic Recycling Inc. has invested in two state-of-the-art extruder systems from Celectric Technology and Delco Extrusion.

Plastic Recycling Inc. adds two extruder systems

March 12, 2025

Bay Plastics Machinery is offering assessments, repair and refurbishment of pelletizers like this one.

Bay Plastics Machinery offers pelletizer assessments

Jan. 29, 2025

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Holding company takes KraussMaffei Group private

Dec. 16, 2024

Rotomolding

Rotoline's free Dashboard monitors a variety of machine data feeds.

Rotoline offers free Dashboard

May 6, 2025

Amid hiring challenges, molders have invested in automation. Among them is Rockford, Ill., Pyramid Plastics, where a Yushin robot is shown stationed above a press.

Manufacturers turn to robots, cobots amid workforce woes

Nov. 14, 2024

Matt Seaholm, left, appears on stage with Bill Carteaux in 2018 at the Global Plastics Summit. Carteaux, who had served the Plastics Industry Association as its president and CEO since 2005, when it was known as the Society of the Plastics Industry, died a few weeks later. In 2022, Seaholm was promoted to helm the organization.

Seaholm restores stability to PLASTICS

Nov. 13, 2024

Maag mill housing improves airflow

Bruce Geiselman

May 1, 2024