End Markets

Construction

Construction to Continue Healthy Growth in 2018

Housing market data in seventh year of improvement. 

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economics

Plastics Processing Closes Best Quarter in Recorded History

March comes in at 57.7. Index for the first-quarter of 2018 reaches 57.1

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Getting Started with Medical Molding: First Consider the ‘Four E’s’

Global medical molder Nypro provides first-hand guidance on what you need to get into the medical molding 911爆料网.

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Commodity Resins

PolyOne Emphasizes its Materials & Services in Future Mobility Innovations

At its Investors Day at NPE2018, PolyOne will present details about transportation solutions as one of several high-growth focus areas.

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Elastomers

DowDuPont to Invest in Expansion of Specialty Resins and Additives

A series of investments totaling about $100 million over the next two years by DowDupont, Midland, Mich., is aimed at expanding manufacturing capacity and facility modernization at the Sabine River Works (SRW) plant in Orange County, Texas.

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Packaging

Blow Molding: Injection-Blow Molder Gets a Speed Boost

Closed-loop hydraulics trim dry-cycle times of Jomar’s mid-size injection-blow molder.

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Packaging

Super-Lightweight PET Bottle For Quick Refreshment

Two new PET water bottles set benchmarks for light weight and material savings.

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Packaging

Snapple Replicates its Iconic Bottle in Plastic— and Keeps the “Pop”

R&D/Leverage designed the preform and blow mold tooling for converting Snapple’s iconic bottle to PET, while keeping the metal lug cap and the “pop” when it’s first opened.

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NPE

It’s All About Speed at Sumitomo (SHI) Demag

Sumitomo Demag all-electric toggles and hybrid injection molding machines are molding high-speed medical and packaging applications.

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Commodity Resins

Toray Plastics America Garners Rhode Island Workforce Development Award

Toray Plastics America Inc. (TPA) was recently recognized by the Providence Business News (PBN) as the best among Rhode Island manufacturers for its training and career advancement programs.

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Process Cooling