Good morning! Biomaterials are a small but growing part of the plastic resin market. Machinery manufacturers say that you likely won't need to buy new equipment to run it, but you might have to adjust your processing parameters. Find out more below.

We also have news from the SPE Thermoforming Division and Eriez, and new equipment from Kongskilde. If you missed our blow molding machinery roundup from NPE, check out the slideshow.

Finally, our colleages at Processing recently interviewed Vac-U-Max's David Kennedy, who talked about the company's NPE experience and other insights for the Ear on Processing podcast.

Lynne Sherwin, managing editor