End Markets

Automotive

Japanese Automaker Joins Stratasys to 3D Print Custom Parts

More stories are emerging that take 3D printing beyond just the prototyping phase to factory tooling and even short-run production, exploiting the technology for mass customization of consumer products.

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Bioplastic Adds ‘Charm’ to NYC Clean-Up Effort

Green Dot bio-materials used to make charm bracelets for Comcast employees for Global Citizen festival.

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Thermoforming

Food Packaging Should Remain Strong

But industrial markets could slip.

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color

Random Color-Infused Masterbatch Boosts Demand For Molded Mini Discs

Zing Mini’s colorful new lineup allows mini-disc golfers to have unique discs.

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Postconsumer

PP Recycling Provides New Life for Keurig K-Cups

Premium coffee maker to shift from multi-layer pods to single-layer polypropylene later this year as demand for recycled PP soars.

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Automotive

KraussMaffei Celebrates 50 Years in U.S.

The U.S. has become the largest single-country market for KM.

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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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Multicomponent

Two-Shot Molding Helps Make Reshoring Cost-Effective

With help from labor-saving technology, a maker of children’s dinnerware finds a ‘Made in USA’ solution to quality & delivery issues.

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Automotive

Transitioning From World’s Factory to World’s Designer

China has long since aggregated the means and materials of production, but increasingly it’s seeking to lay claim to the creative origins of products—the design.

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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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Blending & Dosing