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    Product Innovations

    Wittmann Aton Plus dryers are now more efficient

    Karen Hanna
    Nov. 22, 2024
    The EcoDrive feature adjusts dry air output to match material requirements.

    Injection Molding

    Maguire
    Steve Maguire, founder of auxiliary equipment maker Maguire Products Inc., Aston, Pa., poses with one of his many products.
    Conair Group
    Jared Helfrich
    Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS)
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    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.
    Steinwall Inc.
    Maureen Steinwall poses with her son, Tom Smolenski, who has taken over day-to-day control of Steinwall Inc., an injection molding shop her father started.
    SPE Automotive Division
    The industry’s first Plastic Encapsulated Windows — fixed rear quarter windows used on the 1978 General Motors Company A-Body Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Buick Wagons — were named the 2024 SPE Automotive Division Hall of Fame Winner.
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    BROWSE THESE LEADING COMPANIES

    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.
    Manufacturing

    Manufacturers turn to robots, cobots amid workforce woes

    Karen Hanna
    Nov. 14, 2024
    Automation spares humans fom dull, dangerous work in applications as varied as welding, assembly, palletizing and takeout.
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    Manufacturing

    10 years, 10 influential people in plastics machinery

    Karen Hanna
    Nov. 13, 2024
    As PMM turns 10, we look at people who made significant contributions to the industry during the past decade.
    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.
    Manufacturing

    Seaholm restores stability to PLASTICS

    Ron Shinn
    Nov. 13, 2024
    CEO's appointment in 2022 came amid turmoil, but he's worked to build staff, secure financial footing.
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    Manufacturing

    Hiring gets easier, but challenges could persist

    Karen Hanna
    Nov. 12, 2024
    Wave of retirements will force companies to turn to younger workers over the next few years.
    Hasco America Inc.& Hasco Canada Inc.
    People load items outside Hasco's warehouse in Fletcher, N.C., where the company has worked with a missionary group to collect and distribute supplies for people trying to recover from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Helene.
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    Hasco provides support in Hurricane Helene relief efforts

    Karen Hanna
    Nov. 8, 2024
    Company is warehousing supplies; tables, chairs, totes, gift cards still needed.