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    Highlights from PMM's 2024 machinery coverage

    Ron Shinn
    Dec. 24, 2024
    NPE2024 stories and visits to OEMs' headquarters kept you in the know.

    Blow Molding

    Boy Machines Inc.
    Introduced in October at Fakuma, Boy's latest injection molding machines (IMMs), the Electric series, join other hybids already in the market. The compact, two-platen servo-hydraulic machines are available with clamping forces from 35 tons to 800 tons.
    Pyramid Molding Group
    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.
    Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS)
    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.
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    Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS)
    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.
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    Guill
    Guill's Series 1000 extrusion blow molding heads can be designed to suit the application.

    BROWSE THESE LEADING COMPANIES

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    Manufacturing

    10 years, 5,000 products detailed for processors in PMM's pages: Talking Points

    Ron Shinn
    Nov. 6, 2024
    Founding editor Ron Shinn looks back on a decade of covering new technologies and trends.
    Bekum
    From left, Bekum's Michael Mehnert with his new management team: Oliver Griesing, Martin Hobl and Thomas Aigner.
    Blow Molding

    Bekum announces leadership changes

    Nov. 1, 2024
    Thomas Aigner becomes COO; Martin Hobl and Oliver Griesing join European management team.
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    Multimedia

    How to save energy in your plastics plant, and get help paying for it

    Bruce Geiselman
    Oct. 24, 2024
    Learn more about opportunities for improvements and incentives in this episode of the PMM Insight podcast.
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    Manufacturing

    Microgrids offer solution to big problem – energy fluctuations

    Ron Shinn
    Oct. 22, 2024
    Industry 4.0 approach allows plants to keep running even amid blackouts.
    PMM
    John McCormick, founder of Proco Machinery, stands with his daughter, Katie, who also works for the company, at their NPE2024 booth.
    Blow Molding

    John McCormick built Proco Machinery from the ground up

    Bruce Geiselman
    Oct. 16, 2024
    He tells how he found his niche in blow molding automation equipment and how his apprenticeship taught him to think outside the box.