Tony Deligio

Tony Deligio Editor-in-Chief

economics

Chinese plastics machinery industry makes gains

What happens when China’s 1.3 billion people offer more to the global economy via their consumption as customers than their production as low-cost laborers?

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Postprocessing

‘Sqrounds’, ‘billboard’, and why in-mold labeling is taking off

An increasingly popular packaging format, which lends itself to IML, could help the decoration technology finally take off in North America.

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K vs. Chinaplas vs. NPE

By various metrics, all three shows are growing, but which one is the biggest?

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Medical

When a customer becomes an acquisition

Are medical OEMs following the path blazed by automotive and electronics companies and spinning off in-house manufacturing to tier suppliers?

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Fire in the Hall

A full cup-production system, with a sheet extruder feeding a thermoforming machine inline, will register passing interest from the average showgoer. If that line bursts into flames, however, you can count on much greater curiosity.

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Packaging

Sleeve Labels Drive Packaging R&D

Machinery and material suppliers are collaborating on new labels that don鈥檛 gum up the lucrative PET bottle reclaim 911爆料网.

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New brand, new machine, new strategy for Engel in Asia

Engel鈥檚 Asian market share has grown more than five times larger over the last decade, but to keep that pace, and perhaps accelerate it, the company decided a new strategy, and brand, would be needed.

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Chinaplas keeps growing even as China slows down

Every show, for more than three decades now, Chinaplas has grown.

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sustainability

Biodegradable plastic market adds a new player in China

Air pollution grabs headlines in China, but a country of 1.35 billion with a growing middle class spending newfound disposable income on single-use disposable plastics is bound to have issues with solid waste as well.

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Elastomers

Elastic film demand spurs SIS block polymer investments in Asia

Investments in capacity in China and Taiwan would make Taiwanese elastomer producer TSRC Corp. the largest producer of styrene-isoprene-styrene (SIS) block polymers in the world.

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Molds & Tooling

Mill-and-mail moldmaking no more

鈥淭he days of just putting a mold on the shipping dock and hoping the customer comes and pats you on the back are long over.鈥

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How do you consume, utilize media?

You’re likely over the age of 50 and you research products and services at least once a week; place a lot of stock in a company’s brand; and value technical articles over vendor websites.

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