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Plan for the future of your factory: PMM Insight

Feb. 20, 2025

Take these steps toward becoming a world-class processor.

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EBM publications cover tariffs and more

Feb. 5, 2025

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Prepare now for potential tariff shocks

Feb. 5, 2025

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PMM's top stories in January

Feb. 5, 2025

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So, you need a new ERP. Now what?

Feb. 19, 2025

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Data-driven manufacturing jobs are on the rise

Feb. 18, 2025

Injection Molding

Elmet's Top 3100 LSR dosing system features the company's new M-Type pump.

Liquid Silicone Rubber Molding

Elmet LSR dosing system is precise, cost-effective

Feb. 18, 2025

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Plastic scrap sourcing, automation sales slump, Wilmington Machinery sold: Machinery Minutes, Feb. 17, 2024

Bruce Geiselman

Feb. 17, 2025

Günther's Prisma nozzles are suited for small, intricate parts.

Molds & Tooling

Günther nozzles ideal for micro parts

Feb. 17, 2025

Extrusion

Nick Pinto

Nordson names regional sales manager

Feb. 18, 2025

This Micro-Epsilon measuring system determines thickness of electrically conductive films, such as battery films.

Micro-Epsilon system measures film thickness

Feb. 10, 2025

Joseph Guigli

Guill Tool hires new sales representative

Feb. 7, 2025

BROWSE THESE LEADING COMPANIES

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Manufacturing

Plasmatreat's Openair-Plasma station is appropriate for automotive industry manufacturers of thermoplastic elastomer and ethylene propylene diene terpolymer parts, such as door seals.

Product Innovations

Openair-Plasma treats automotive parts

Feb. 20, 2025

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A3 publishes updated ISO 10218 standards

Feb. 18, 2025

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PLASTICS hosts Legislative Fly-in and Spring Meeting April 7-9

Feb. 13, 2025

A cobot is shown in a booth at Collaborate 2025 in January. Sales of automation equipment were virtually flat in 2024, according to statistics released at the event.

Automation sales nearly flat in 2024

Feb. 13, 2025

Alex Winchester

ACS Group names area sales manager

Feb. 12, 2025

Blow Molding

Craft brewer Beermaster commissioned a customized PET Technologies APF-Max 4L to make its packaging more eco-friendly.

Brewer says 'cheers' to custom bottle solution

Feb. 19, 2025

Russ LaBelle is the founder of Wilmington Machinery.

Injection Molding

Wilmington Machinery sold, founder Russ LaBelle steps away

Feb. 10, 2025

The ALPS BottleStop multi-head leak tester is easy to use and reliable, and can test a variety of bottle shapes.

BottleStop leak tester fits various container types

Feb. 6, 2025

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Could Trump tariffs help or hurt plastics businesses?

Feb. 4, 2025

Molds & Tooling

The Haas DM-3 drilling and milling machine has a 40-taper spindle and 18+1 tool changer.

Molds & Tooling

Haas DM-3 offers greater X-axis travel

Feb. 13, 2025

The V-Flow HRS controllers from Oerlikon HRSflow feature a user-friendly interface.

Molds & Tooling

V-Flow HRS controllers are user-friendly

Feb. 11, 2025

PCS has added components to the F.I.T.S. line.

Molds & Tooling

PCS adds components to F.I.T.S. line

Jan. 30, 2025

Globeius is now offering a line of hand tools and heated nippers from Mouldpro.

Injection Molding

Globeius now selling more Mouldpro tools

Jan. 23, 2025

Recycling

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Plastics processors, recyclers look for imported scrap alternatives amid tariff threats

Bruce Geiselman

Feb. 12, 2025

Origin Materials has developed a line to produce caps and closures from PET or rPET.

CapFormer enables production of PET caps and closures

Feb. 7, 2025

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Operation Clean Sweep launches Logistics Verification Program

Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS)

Jan. 31, 2025

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

Bay Plastics Machinery offers pelletizer assessments

Jan. 29, 2025

Additive Manufacturing

3D Systems has added the Wash 400, Wash 400F and Cure 400 post-processing solutions to its lineup.

Additive Manufacturing

3D Systems adds post-processing solutions

Feb. 19, 2025

The Sharebot SnowWhite 2 HT printer handles high-temperature materials.

Additive Manufacturing

Sharebot 3D printer handles high-temperature materials

Feb. 14, 2025

Arburg displayed a Freeformer 550-3X 3D printer at Formnext 2024.

Additive Manufacturing

Arburg debuts smaller Freeformer

Bruce Geiselman

Feb. 11, 2025

Slant 3D uses its proprietary printers to quickly produce parts on demand.

Additive Manufacturing

Gabe Bentz brings 3D printing power to the people

Jan. 21, 2025

Features

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Three personal wealth planning steps to take before selling your plastics business

Jan. 29, 2025

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How smart logistics can minimize downtime and boost productivity in plastics manufacturing

Jan. 22, 2025

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Public education makes a city recycling program profitable: PMM Insight

Jan. 16, 2025

American Plastic Molding in Scottsburg, Ind., is beginning the new year with a new 900-ton molding machine from Milacron. Acquired late last year, it replaces a 725-ton molding machine that took up the same footprint. Adam Auffart, VP of sales and marketing for APM, says tariffs proposed by President-elect Donald Trump might steer more customers to the shop's mold-making and molding services.

Trump election buoys some manufacturers' hopes

Jan. 15, 2025

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Digital Edition

Thermoforming

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SPE Thermoforming Division seeks entries for parts competition

Feb. 14, 2025

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Maruho Hatsujyo Group announces 2 hires

Feb. 12, 2025

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Machinery outlook for 2025, Proco's cobot business, Geiss thermoformer: Machinery Minutes, Jan. 13, 2025

Bruce Geiselman

Jan. 13, 2025

The Geiss T11 thermoforming machine has a revamped user interface.

Geiss thermoformer has upgraded control

Jan. 10, 2025

Compounding

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Holding company takes KraussMaffei Group private

Dec. 16, 2024

Steve Maguire, founder of auxiliary equipment maker Maguire Products Inc., Aston, Pa., poses with one of his many products.

Injection Molding

Engineering challenges energize Maguire

Nov. 19, 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

Bill Carteaux, the late Plastics Industry Association president and CEO, was one of the industry's most ardent supporters up until his death in 2018.

Carteaux championed industry

Nov. 8, 2024

Rotomolding

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

Maag mill housing improves airflow

Bruce Geiselman

May 1, 2024

Processor, material firm adapt resin to rotomold part with a challenging feature

Bruce Geiselman

Jan. 17, 2024

Rotoline's Automatic Weighing System weighs and dispenses precise batches into a container to match the requirements of the mold.

Rotoline system dispenses powder for rotomolding

Oct. 24, 2023