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

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

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 Gardner Business Index (GBI) measures the current state of plastics processing activity through survey responses covering new orders, production, backlog, employment, exports and supplier ...

Below are the views of purchasing consultants from Resin Technology Inc. (RTi); David Barry, associate director of PE, PP and PS for Dow Jones Energy (rebranded from OPIS’s PetroChemWire/PCW); Michael ...

There are several potential uses of a lab-scale stretch-blow molding machine. One is to produce samples of a new polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle design for mechanical and other testing.

Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) continue to be a target of regulation in many jurisdictions. Producers of film processing aids continue to advance substitute chemistries to enable a ...

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 ...

The surface temperature of the root of the screw is an important factor for solids conveying, melting and the conveying of molten resin in a single-screw extruder. Only the solids conveying section of ...

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 ...