End Markets

Electronics Gradually Improving

Pent-up demand U.S. consumers have will eventually make its way to electronics.

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Medical

Pull Yourself to More Accurate, Repeatable Medical Tubing

The puller is the heart of the tubing extrusion process. While material throughput rate is generated by the extruder, and the tubing is initially formed in the die, it鈥檚 the puller that develops the ID/OD and wall thickness.

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Packaging

Extruder Upgrades Pay Off Big for Sheet Processor

A $65,000 upgraded paid for itself in less than a month.

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Packaging

New Service Focuses on Biax Film

A fairly new company is providing film processors with product-development expertise鈥攁nd even doing limited production runs鈥攊n the area of biaxial film orientation.

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Compounding

Italian Compounder So.F.Ter. Adds U.S. Production

So.F.Ter. is building a plant in Tennessee.

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News in Medical Tubing & Materials

Two innovations in medical tubing and more than a dozen new materials, coatings, and adhesives were on display at June’s Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East show in Philadelphia.

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K 2013 Preview: Materials & Additives

The K 2013 show will present a broad range of engineered plastics materials, including thermoplastic composites, as well as additives. Automotive and electronic applications will be the main targets, as well as medical, packaging, lighting, and construction.

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K 2013 Preview: Injection Molding

Next month’s mammoth triennial plastics show in Düsseldorf, Germany, challenges injection molding machine builders to demonstrate technological leadership in addressing the needs of the marketplace.

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Construction

CertainTeed Cuts No Corners Toward Sustainable Certainty

At this building-products powerhouse, the commitment to sustainability runs deep and extends to virtually every aspect of its 911爆料网.

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Automotive

Automotive Still Humming

Year to date, the total number of motor vehicles assembled in the U.S. is up 5% over the same period in 2012.

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Process Cooling
Plastics Size Reduction