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    Manufacturing

    What is your equipment telling you?

    Karen Hanna
    Nov. 22, 2024
    Tracking and analyzing data from your machines can help improve your processes.

    Extrusion

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    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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    Riverdale Global LLC
    Riverdale Global estimates that a new water-treatment facility it recently put into operation at its High Point, N.C., plant will allow it to save an average of 250,000 gallons of water a year.
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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.

    BROWSE THESE LEADING COMPANIES

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    Prices for goods shipped from overseas could get more expensive under a second Trump presidency, if he follows through with pledges to institute tariffs. However, overseas OEMs expressed optimism that policies to strengthen the dollar, along with tax incentives, could help their business.
    Manufacturing

    Plastics machinery makers express optimism following election

    Bruce Geiselman
    Nov. 7, 2024
    Trump's proposed tariffs, tax policies and efforts to strengthen the dollar could help some, but mold making could become a pain point.
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    Manufacturing

    Celebrate Vinyl Week 2024 Dec. 9-12

    Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS)
    Nov. 7, 2024
    PLASTICS and the Vinyl Sustainability Council join forces for the event in Louisville, Ky.
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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.
    Enercon
    Enercon's Quick Sleeve tool allows for fast changes of silicone sleeves on corona surface treaters.
    Product Innovations

    Tool allows fast replacement of silicone sleeves

    Karen Hanna
    Nov. 4, 2024
    Enercon's Quick Sleeve is designed for use with corona surface treaters.
    Hennecke
    The ultra-compact JFlex evo system with a 581-square-foot footprint and a height of 9.8 feet saves valuable production space.
    Extrusion

    Hennecke JFlex evo is compact, flexible

    David Tillett
    Nov. 1, 2024
    The latest in the line of slabstock foam machines allows for quick formulation and color changes.