Blow Molding

Are You Ready to Take on the World?

Plastics Technology鈥檚 exclusive benchmarking study reveals the tactics of processors who just might be in that class.

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Blow Molding

Top of the Class: Meet 2015’s World-Class Processors

Plastics Technology鈥檚 inaugural group of World-Class Processors鈥攕elected through an exclusive benchmarking survey鈥攕pans geographies, markets, processes, and materials. Diverse in size and capabilities, these companies have one key trait in common: efficiency. How do you stack up in comparison?

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Extrusion

Processors’ Equipment Investment Plans Remain Strong in 2016

Gardner鈥檚 exclusive research forecasts total spending on primary processing and auxiliary equipment at its highest level since 2008.

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sustainability

November 2015—44.3

Processors plan to invest in capital equipment as smaller processors are doing better.

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Portuguese Blow Molder Expands Kansas City Plant

Logoplaste will invest $35 million to expand its facility in Kansas City, making it the company鈥檚 new U.S. manufacturing and distribution hub.

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Large & Medium-Sized Plants Expand

Smaller operations might be struggling, but the heart of the industry is growing.

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Extrusion

Plastics Pioneers Association Adds Three to Membership Roster

Bruner, Goldsberry and Shoemaker added to ranks of group.

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PET

Why & When Should You Re-Crystallize PET Scrap?

Whether you’re blow molding PET bottles or extruding APET sheet, you’ll produce amorphous scrap in the process. How you handle it will impact your production costs. Re-crystallizing it will help.

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sustainability

Breaking the Downward Slide?

Processing market seems to have stabilized.

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Blow Molding

Davis-Standard Opens New Plant To Build Blow Molding Machines

D-S moves accumulator-head machine building to Fulton, N.Y.

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Blending & Dosing