Good morning! PMM Editor Ron Shinn attended this week's Collaborate event in Novi, Mich., organized by Universal Robots. For today's podcast, he spoke with UR's Chris Buse, who has a plastics engineering degree, about how processors can incorporate cobots.

We have new equipment from Wittmann and PCS, a program from Bay Plastics Machinery to give your pelletizer new life, and from our colleagues at American Machinist, the latest twist in the 3D printing merger wars.

At this writing, the Trump administration had not yet imposed significant new tariffs. What effect could his policies have on the industry? Read on.

Lynne Sherwin, managing editor