End Markets
New Electric Machines for Injection-Blow & Stretch-Blow Molding
Clean, fast, and energy-efficient machines from Pet All Manufacturing.
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Accumulator-Head Blow Molder for 2D or 3D Molding
Accumulator-head machine is suited to both standard and suction blow molding, and is equipped for Industry 4.0.
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New-Generation Automatic Baggers for Blow Molded Containers
BM Series from And&Or forms bags from roll film and packs them with blow molded bottles.
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Large-Neck Bottle Spin Trimmer Packs Higher Speed
MTM dual-belt spin trimmer handles large, neck-to-neck bottles at over 100 “logs” per minute.
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Rocheleau Introduces Its Largest Reciprocating-Screw Blow Molder
Machine can produce six 1-gal containers or up to 16 smaller products.
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Coextrusion Line Demonstrates Technology for API Catheters
At trade show, suppliers team to show how to run a medical tube that includes medicine.
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PE Film Market Snap-Shot: Shrink Film
Roughly 797.3 million lb of PE was consumed making shrink film in 2017, and with growth of 1.7% forecast, consumption will hit 838.2 million lb 2020.
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Plastic Materials, Recycling Should Play Part in Infrastructure Plan
Nation’s recycling facilities should be targeted in planned infrastructure upgrades.
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Plastics Improve Quality of Life—and Figs!
Plastics empower safer passage for fresh figs from California to New York—much to this editor’s delight.
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IBM Tackles Chemical Recycling of Plastics From Post-Consumer PC (Think CDs) to a Thermoset
Jeannette Garcia, polymer chemist at IBM Research, details her research into chemical recycling of plastics for monomer recovery.
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