Blow Molding

Thermoforming

June’s Index: 46.8

But plants with 100-249 employees expand for fourth straight month.

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Compounding

Get Involved in Manufacturing Day

Strut your stuff to students, their parents and teachers on Oct. 7

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Packaging

Food Packaging Should Remain Strong

But industrial markets could slip.

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May’s Index: 52.1

Large and mid-sized processors doing particularly well.

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best practices

Blow Molding Challenges Embraced at Metro Mold

“Others mold difficult parts. We mold the impossible.”

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N.A. Plastics Machinery Shipments On the Rise in Q1

Shipments of primary plastics equipment in the first quarter were up 13.5% from the year-ago quarter.

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Materials

Top DuPont Award Goes to Hot-Fill Blow Molded PET Container

Graham Packaging鈥檚 technology manipulates PET鈥檚 morphology to create a container with properties that surpass standard PET.

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Packaging

Slideshow: SPE’s Plastics for Life Global Parts Competition

During ANTEC 2016, a panel of judges selected the winners of the 3rd annual Plastics for Life Global Parts Competition.

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Automotive

Winners of SPE’s Plastics for Life Global Parts Competition

A panel of judges selected the winners of the 3rd annual Plastics for Life Global Parts Competition from among a wide range of parts that had already won in competitions at previous SPE events during the past year.

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Blow Molding

Davis-Standard Now Builds All Its Own Accumulator Heads

Advancing from assembly to complete production of all components.

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Process Cooling
Plastics Size Reduction