While some headwinds in trade have dampened the island nation’s global plastics machinery presence it remains a global power, ...

The global firm’s expansion in the Western U.S. will begin extrusion blow molding bottles next spring.

ABS launches the 40-hp Tranquility Vacuum Pump, featuring single-side access, improved cooling and enhanced rigidity for plastics processing systems.

There are three ways to put a threaded brass insert into molded plastic. Here’s what each one does to the part; where each ...

The 2026 survey, based on 2025 operations, reveals injection molders’ resilience in the face of rising resin prices and trade ...

Producing quality injection molded parts consistently and efficiently demands precise melt temperature control. When a hot runner system is involved, maintaining the desired temperature at every ...

After the company’s May 1 launch by a team with more than 40 years of combined experience serving the film extrusion industry, Extrusion Automation is rolling out its first product. The Ex-Trim 1.0 ...

An Oklahoma company, Utopia Plastix, has developed resin products made directly from plants, which can be processed by traditional plastics processing methods like injection molding and extrusion.

This is the most challenging resin pricing column I’ve had to assemble, starting with the U.S. Supreme Court’s February ruling that invalidated most of President Trump’s broad emergency-based import ...

While prices of polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) all moved up in January, with potential for a bit more by the first quarter’s end, the volatility ...

In our 2024 Top Shops injection molding benchmarking survey, Philip Katen of Plastikos talked about a “grind-it-out” phase for processors working out post-COVID inventory overcorrections. In 2025’s ...

Extended producer responsibility (EPR) changes the waste management model by involving producers in end-of-life disposition of the products they market, often through fees that support collection and ...