Jim Callari

Jim Callari Editorial Director

Packaging

Accredo’s Credo: Designed for Sustainability, Built for Success

In fewer than 10 years, Accredo Packaging has developed innovative packaging solutions—including the first-ever all-PE barrier standup pouch—while maintaining its commitment to being ‘green.’

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Step Up and Support Manufacturing Day 2018

Host an event and start to change the misconceptions still lingering about manufacturing—and plastics.

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dies

Resin-Drying Icon Sears Dies at 78

40-year industry veteran was founder and president of Dri-Air Industries.

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plant tour

Growing Compounder Targets Tolling

Illinois-based compounder BPC boosts capacity with high-output twin-screw to target more toll-compounding 911爆料网.

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NPE

NPE Wrap-Up: News in Primary Machinery, Part 1

Rounding up details from the Big Show not previously reported in all our other coverage, here’s more news in injection and blow molding, extrusion and compounding. Next month, we’ll conclude with recycling/scrap reclaim, robots, tooling, auxiliary equipment, materials and additives.

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Materials

Get Free Guidance on Molding Resins

Mobile Specs app and website provide processing parameters on thousands of resins … at no cost.

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Dual-Strand Profile Line Gives Extruder Twice the Output

Steady growth in product demand and a full manufacturing floor required profile extruder Intralox to get creative when it needed to upgrade its equipment.

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NPE

News Highlights from NPE2018

Developments in Industry 4.0, multi-layer preform molding, automation, LSR processing, and PP were among the major newsbreakers at May’s show. And one film processor finalized purchases of 13 new lines.

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plant tour

‘Intelligent’ Cooling Helps Molder Improve Productivity, Profitability & Quality

Cost-effective and user-friendly process-cooling system gives custom molder the ability to do more with less.

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Global Film Processor Sets Sights on U.S. Growth

With six plants in four continents, Flex Films’ strategy is to offer highly customized, ‘holistic’ solutions in BOPET, BOPP, and specialized films and coatings.

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Compounding

The One Company Solution

Primex has vertically integrated its color compounding, sheet extrusion, and fabrication 911爆料网es to provide a single-source solution to customers in a wide range of industries.

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NPE

The Pellets Have Returned, Too

Materials suppliers came back to NPE2018 in a big way last month.

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Plastics Size Reduction