Good morning! Some in the plastics industry may be glad that talks for a Global Plastics Treaty ended in December without a resolution. But in today's PMM Insight podcast, Editor Ron Shinn says the industry will suffer if there's no agreement. Anti-plastics sentiment isn't going away, and the industry needs to be part of the solution. Take a listen here or on your favorite platform.

We've got new products from KraussMaffei and Oerlikon HRSflow, and personnel news from Sacmi and ACS Group.

And in case you missed it over the holidays, we rounded up some of our best machinery coverage of 2024, including NPE2024 features and visits to OEMs' North American headquarters.

Lynne Sherwin, managing editor