• Subscribe
  • Digital Edition
  • Advertise
  • Product Innovations
  • Webinars
  • White Papers
  • Multimedia
  • ehandbooks
    1. Blow Molding

    PMG adds Italian blow molders

    May 4, 2020

    Plastics Machinery Group International Ltd. (PMG), Bedford Heights, Ohio, has entered into a partnership with an Italian machinery maker.

    PMG is now the North American commercial partner for sales, technical service and support for blow molding machines from Meccanoplastica Group. 

    Plastics Hall of Fame
    plastics_hoflogo
    StackTeck Ltd.
    StackTeck is among many manufacturers and OEMs working to lightweight parts, both to reduce costs, as well as to address sustainability concerns. It used its specialized molds and proprietary Thin Recess Injection Molding (TRIM). technology to produce these 5-gallon buckets that have wall sections that are only 0.59 inch thick. Three years ago, StackTeck told Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing the buckets weighed 817 grams -- compared to 930-gram-buckets made through more-traditional means..
    340779438 © Aa5176 | Dreamstime.com
    dreamstime_m_340779438
    Amcor
    logo_19380593d927a5678111629d2018aca5
    Maguire
    Steve Maguire, founder of auxiliary equipment maker Maguire Products Inc., Aston, Pa., poses with one of his many products.