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Additives: China consuming more than 25% of global additives volume
Polymerupdate global resin pricing: post-Olympic malaise continues; Asian, European PP plummets, PE lags
TPE resin pricing: PE falls in spite of Gustav fears; PP and PS drop as well
Medical: Catheter tubing extruders combine
Medical: MRPC adds cleanrooms, molding machines, and staff
Injection molding: GIWW granted gas-injection rights
Automotive: Delphi eschews PVC, XLPE for lighter, “greener” automotive cables
DuPont seeks Teflon innovations
Injection molding: SABIC seeks route to compression molding glazing simulation
e-Weekly News Briefs, Sept. 9-15
Moldmaking: StackTeck announces Universal Closures collaboration
Additives: Ciba, Astra form Saudi Arabian antioxidant JV
TPE resin pricing: PE, PP down; PS steady
Automotive: Polytec acquires Peguform
Polymerupdate global resin pricing: Asian prices continue fall, Europe mostly flat
Automotive: Carbon Motors taps paintfilm for full concept-car exterior
Compounding: ExxonMobil Chemical reaches Asia-Pacific compounding agreement
Injection molding: Haitian results paint a mixed, but still positive, picture
e-Weekly News Briefs, September 3-8
Talking pipe and profile with Wolfgang Studener
Gentle arm-twisting needed to persuade that plastics are best
American Kuhne happy in new facility
Boss adds kit, expertise to meet demand
Orientation give PVC pipes an extra helping of ‘tough’
Mastering in-line monitoring
Line targets PVC pipe, profile production
Clean cut takes high tech solution
Pipe conference generates buzz
Injection molding: Processors says his IMD fits the bill at a lower cost
Aseanplas exhibitors tout assembly, decoration innovation
Robotics, automation and assembly at the Fakuma show
Molders investing plenty in cleanroom molding, assembly
Bring out your best for the next IML awards
Swap welding tools in 5 minutes or less
Hot stamping for cones and cylinders
Fakuma preview: Primary equipment, auxiliaries, and materials
Injection Molding: Husky, Toshiba expand overseas presence
TPE resin pricing: PE up, PP down, PS steady
LyondellBasell launches specialty PO technology
Solutia shops nylon business
Profile extrusion: Battenfeld, Cincinnati Extrusion combine forces
Additives: A. Schulman adds manufacturing capacity in Akron
DSM adds polyester production, expands EPDM line
Bayer breaks ground on Shanghai TDI plant
Polymerupdate global resin pricing: Prices fall in Asia; Europe sees increases
Thermoset plastics: British B&C firm buys Creative Pultrusions
Thermoset plastics: British B&C firm buys Creative Pultrusions
e-Weekly News Briefs, August 25-28
Fakuma injection molding preview: Pre-fair news from Arburg, Engel, Netstal, Wittmann Battenfeld, Fanuc, Ferromatik Milacron, Negri Bossi/Sacmi Group, Trexel, and Windsor/JSW
Plastics supply: BASF puts another styrenics business on the block
Composite plastics: Europe's first plastics road bridge ready for traffic
Moldmaking: R&D Tooling changes more than name
Design: Autodesk previews PlassoTech, Moldflow amalgamation
Polymerupdate global plastics pricing news: triple-digit drop in Indonesian PP; Asian LDPE holds steady; European LLDPE on the rise
Greening of an Industry: Product chain links up for bioplastics recycling forum
Film extrusion: Mitsubishi offers X-Barrier
Plastics supply: Medical TPE range in the offing
e-Weekly News Briefs, August 18-22
TPE resin pricing: PE, PP drop; PS steady
Automotive: Global light vehicle industry faces total overhaul
TPE resin pricing: PE, PP flat; PS avails restricted
Packaging: Atlantis liquidates molding, film businesses
Greening of an Industry: MPW, IMM team up for sustainability conference
Injection molding: With Fakuma looming, Battenfeld Wittmann expands service
Injection molding: KraussMaffei to debut all electric; joint Toshiba/KM design?
Polymerupdate global resin pricing: prices continue drop mirroring petroleum
Extrusion: Krah, Fränkische form sales/marketing collaboration
Extrusion: Goex installs cast coextrusion film line
Auxiliary equipment: Moretto expands in Germany
e-Weekly News Briefs August 12-18
Plastics recycling: Cheers to higher recycling targets
Chalking it up to sustainability
Can you guess?
PCR sees second life in food packaging
Automotive: Daimler creates sustainability board, invests €14 billion in green R&D
Cereplast earns patent, Metabolix wins customers
Plastics recycling: New ISO standard could help push recycling
Film extrusion: Addex earns patent for thickness control
CO2-based resin launched
RocTool pushes beyond composites into injection molding
TPE resin pricing: PE and PP soften, while PS rises
Film extrusion: DMT Machinery opens plant in China
Antec headed for Europe
Injection molding: Milacron’s sales rise and margins climb through efficiency measures
Film extrusion: Films extruder touts no carbon emissions
Greening of an Industry: PHBV gets food-contact approval
IQMS forms new Automation Group to advance lean
Packaging: Gerresheimer to sell former Wilden unit
Packaging: Ball licenses barrier technology to Invista
Polymerupdate global resin pricing: Prices continue fall in Asia and Europe, while LDPE proves stubborn
e-Weekly News Briefs, Aug. 4-8
Juggling the complexity of it all
Wolverine bites back at cold with thermoformed panels
McClarin’s lean initiative
Anchor drops $40 million into expansion
New tool helps with very thin lids; Kiefel in China
Get ready for next SPE thermoforming event
Brown awarded patent for its single roller screw design
Hicks, Blackstone ready Graham Packaging IPO
More from Graham: Executive Q&A with Mark Leiden
Automotive: Combine molding with blowmolding, with no welding
Wilmington delivers SB line
Clariant adds kit
New sustainability standard for beverage industry
Chalk fillers make for EcoScan bottles
Executive Q&A with Mark Leiden
Material Thoughts: Annual Additives report
Reaping the sustainable harvest
European agency reaffirms existing BPA standards
TPE resin pricing: PE faces double-digit increases, PP remains on the rise, PS considers increase due to benzene
Dow and SCG announce Asian elastomer plans
Dow breaks revenue record, watches earnings fall
Sheet extrusion: Nudo chooses D-S for panel production
Film Extrusion: Taghleef builds to 290,000 tons/yr BOPP capacity
Film extrusion: Pliant expands Canadian capabilities, capacity
Artist starving for scrap PC; can you spare any sheet?
Injection molding: short-closure effort expanded
Polymerupdate resin pricing: Asia, Europe see some price decreases as oil falls
e-Weekly News Briefs, July 27-August 1
Make Every Pellet Count: Color concentrates or masterbatch? No easy answer.
Industry News & Analysis
Global sourcing needs local testing to ensure worldwide satisfaction
Al Tayar Plastics/Rubber, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Uptime justifies cost of OEM maintenance
Lightweight, attractive, and strong
Mexican packaging firm makes inroads in U.S. market
Mexican processing sector faces challenges
Plastics Cluster attracts processors like a magnet
Mexican packaging firm makes inroads in U.S. market
Greening of an Industry: Dow, NREL pursue nonfood biomass for fuels, chemicals
TPE resin pricing: Have PE, PP, and PS finally peaked?
Plastics, additive pricing: Increases at BASF, A. Schulman, and Albemarle
Injection molding: 4400-ton duo largest installed Engel in North America
Dow plus Kuwaiti firm equals K-Dow Petrochemicals
Packaging: Alcan buys Tubapak, expands E. European reach
Ashland acquires Hercules, water-based expertise
Plastic film demand to grow at rigid packaging’s expense
Polymerupdate global plastics pricing: Asian, European producers weigh costs against demand destruction
e-Weekly News Briefs July 22-27
Injection molding: Hoffer Plastics and The Intec Group form alliance
TPE resin pricing: PE peak? PP and PS approach, breach $1/lb mark
Dow acquires Rohm and Haas, continues shift toward specialties
Injection molding: Sumitomo-Demag merger in high gear
Extrusion: American Kuhne moves to new facility
Price increase reprieve in Asia, but Polymerupdate
Injection molding: Ceramic molding expert group established
Injection molding: Systematic/decoupled molding helps molder be defect-free
Extrusion: Zotefoam buys 30% stake in MuCell
Additives: Clariant builds liquids, N.A. presence with Rite Systems, Ricon Colors deal
Additives: PolyOne adds Japanese, Indian presence
e-Weekly News Briefs, July 15-21
Plant tour: Moretto sets sights on industry leadership
Auxiliary equipment a bright spot in U.S. machinery report
'X' marks the spot for moisture control
Size reduction: Vecoplan has a plan for bulky scraps
Big machine leads to oversized savings
New feeder eases work for compounders, extrusion processors
Single solidifies U.S. presence; NGR begins U.S. operations
CRG Logics building new plant
Names in the news
Automotive: Johnson Controls forms interiors JV with Plastech
Industry report offers harsh outlook, keys to survival
Plastics recycling: Cheers to higher recycling targets
TPE resin pricing: PE and PP higher; PS to rise
Polymerupdate global plastics pricing: Polyolefins and PET rise in Europe, Asia
Injection molding: Heitec expands to serve larger hot runner market
Plastics recycling: New ISO standard promote recycling
Greening of an industry: PCR sees second life in food packaging
Automotive: Daimler creates sustainability board, invests euro 14 billion in green R&D
Plastic additives: Addcomp acquires Priex business
e-Weekly News Briefs, July 7-11
Executive Q&A with Phil Howerton
World tour: China pursues coal as path to plastics
Plastics pricing: This too shall pass
Packaging: Hicks, Blackstone ready Graham Packaging IPO
TPE resin pricing: PE, PP, and PS higher
Auxiliary equipment: Moretto sets sights on industry leadership
Global resin pricing report and plant news from Polymerupdate
Pricing: India plastics association asks for government intervention in price run up
Packaging: Ball closes PP barrier plant in Ontario
Pricing: Dow lifts prices 25% higher, adds delivery surcharges
Nanotechnology: Graphene takes on carbon nanotubes
Plastic battles wood for pallet supremacy
Auxiliaries: Frigel and Heisler Green reach sustainable process water agreement
e-Weekly News Briefs, June 30-July 4
Design Focus: Plain sailing with water injection molding
Industry News & Analysis
New grades target BOPP market's growing needs
'X' marks the spot for moisture control
Big savings potential
Compounding system keeps eye on margins
Detecting packaging defects
Ferromatik unveils lower-cost presses at open house
Help your film stay in shape
High barrier from 9-layer die head
High tech makes for clean cuts
Hot runner controller applies algorithm
Lab system measures thicker profiles
New interlocks work well, cost little
New sizes for needle-bearing locks
Product Focus: Process controllers
PET strapping replaces steel
Plug materials for pharma
Stamping machine handles cylinders and cones
'Step-change advance'
Tooling introduced for extra-thin lids
Unit masters inline monitoring
Upgraded ProHelp
Spotlight with Gerhard Kosche
New blowmolding grades target variety of uses
Broad demand growth expected to continue
Mexican processing sector faces challenges
China pursues coal as path to plastics
Aseanplas: Processors answer calls for productivity, innovation
Compounding developments enter the fast lane
Demand/supply imbalance, raw material costs equal price hikes aplenty
Consumer-friendly, simplified packaging solutions
PPI looks for pipe extruding political heroes
Injection molding: Engel launches all-electric e-max stateside, hosts Medical Days
TPE resin pricing: PE and PP higher, PS steady to higher
Country Report: Mexico—Taiwanese machines gain a foothold in automotive; packaging exported to the U.S.; and more
Compounding plastics: Fitzpatrick outlines plans for plastics compounding market
Plastics supply: Sabic undertakes PP expansion in Europe, considers PC in China
Hexion, Huntsman breakup gets ugly; Apollo sued
SPI announces International Plastics Design Competition at NPE2009
Resin pricing: Hikes continue; the latest from BASF, Sun Chemical, Bayer, DuPont, and DAK
Injection molding: Haefner begins clean-room molding for B. Braun
Polymerupdate global resin pricing and plant news
e-Weekly News Briefs, June 23-27
Pricing: Commodity crunch reaches biobased feedstocks, additives
TPE resin pricing: PE, PP, and PS all higher
With fond memories of 2007, Germany’s machine makers pronounce 2008 a challenge
Pricing: DuPont, Bayer, A. Schulman announce increases
U.S. blowmolding sales gains countered by dips in extrusion and injection
Film extrusion: Peruvian geomembrane line largest ever
Sheet extrusion: Brückner Formtec lands six-line order for China
Sheet extrusion: D-S sends PET system to Brazil, ag film line to Belgium
Polymerupdate global resin pricing and plant news
IDES—The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
e-Weekly News Briefs, June 15-19
Thermosets: BMCI acquired by Citadel Plastics Holdings
TPE resin pricing: PE, PP, and PS higher
MD&M East: GW Silicones launched to exploit growing LSR/TP confluence
MD&M East: Cleanroom boom for GW, Nypro, Hi-Tech, and Integrity
MD&M East: APEC and MPC change names, owners, capabilities
Injection molding: Romi waits on Sandretto purchase
Injection molding: Engel edges closer to $1-billion mark
Injection molding: Wittmann Battenfeld open doors for Competence Days
Recycling: One man’s garbage is another’s resource
Polymerupdate global resin pricing and plant news
e-Weekly News Briefs, June 9-13
Compound development overtakes in the fast lane
Clear cut decisions help with choice among pelletizers
Xaloy debuts “step-change advance”
Farrel expands testing facility in Europe
Names in the News: People going places
Only low loadings needed for this FR
Save the silver; here’s an alternative
Performance phosphite is free-flowing solid
NFM expands geographic range for Toshiba representation
New compounder enters field
Songwon to invest in Middle Eastern facility
Techmer PM acquires Accel in additive deal
Pay more for your plastics; several producers promise double-digit price increases
Injection molding: Changes in Italian market take form
TPE resin pricing: PE, PP, and PS all higher
LME looks to increase financing participation in plastics futures
Packaging: Portola to close New York operation
Injection molding: Calico to add capacity, staff; Vantec to open new site
Sustainable processing: rotomolder MOD builds business with regrind containers
Injection molding: Poly-Cast takes on Viking as partner in China
Polymerupdate global resin pricing and plant news
Got milk? Well, the U.K. does, and it’s packed in plastic
e-Weekly News Briefs, June 2-6
AMBA's new president would rather look ahead than over his shoulder
The Economics of Processing: Mexico makes its case
He who lives by wage disparity...
Screws and barrels the focus of energy-savings efforts
Design: Autodesk to acquire Moldflow
TPE replaces PVC in tubes, films
Little-known government grant helps processor keep improving
Arburg open house reveals expanded range
Blown-film coolers slash energy use
Energy-efficiency standards in dryers
Enter the Titan
You have mail—from your press
New nozzle range
Nozzle heater transfers more heat
Product Focus: Pelletizers
Pick your runner with ease
Pick your gate: side, edge, or double-edge
Plasma without problems: next stop might be barrier treatment
Reduce bulky scraps
Rolls give hot film, sheet the cold shoulder
System adds barrier, easily, to single-layer sheet
Technology allows standards compliance
Triple play for NPM
Spotlight With Hanshin Kijeon
Juggling the complexity of it all
Extruded, coated plastics prolong pipe service life
Labor issues could challenge China’s processing sector
Processing operations offer hope of stability
Mexico makes its case
Kid-powered, earth-friendly, made in North America
Profile extrusion: Cincinnati Extrusion, Gruber cooperate on window lines
TPE plastics pricing: PE, PS higher; PP steady to higher
Compounding: Coperion completes U.S. expansion
U.S. wind energy goals could lift processors
Polymerupdate global resin pricing and plant news
Plastics design: Students unleash imagination on packaging
Plastics design: RP machine maker offers new prototype service
Plastics design: Santoprene web site dealt a new hand, with new features
Automotive: BMW headrests spring into action
IDES—The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
e-Weekly News Briefs, May 29
Screws and barrels help drive energy-savings efforts
After hours brainstorming produces vibrant results
Flexibility, energy savings highlight benefits of new combo
PPI looks for pipe extruding political heroes
D-S adds lab line, hours for medical
Venice’s allure enhanced with WPC docks
Maximum speed with minimum energy consumption
In play: M&A update
Technology helps with Prop 65/RoHS/WEEE compliance
Self-aligning compression jig works for testing pipes
Names in the news: people going places
Auxiliaries: IPEG consolidates Conair, Rapid manufacturing sites
TPE resin pricing: PE and PP steady/higher, PS steady
Recycling: Erema hits milestone, sees more opportunity ahead
Italy’s Persico, Omipa, Macchi see opportunity and challenges; weak dollar a strong risk
Pipe extrusion: Add Reliance to the PE100 list
Thermoforming: Anchor announces $40-million expansion
Ruwais melamine plant scrapped
Rapid tooling: EOS claims patent infringement against MCP
Film extrusion: Increased trend toward stretch-hood packaging
Moldmaking: D-M-E launches scholarships
e-Weekly News Briefs, May 19
New automation helps established molder learn new market opportunities
Plasma without problems: next stop might be barrier treatment
Spotlight on . . . Film decoration
Deco/assembly TopCon just around the corner
Adhesive proves seaworthy for thermoplastic marine parts
Vision checker inspects small features over a wide area
Compression limiter helps with insert moldings
Infrared headliner welding needs no adhesive
Bring out your best for the next IML awards
Make your own pad print stereotypes
Tiny spin welder gives big effort
Metal inserts offered
SPE outlines its “dramatic transformation”
TPE resin pricing: PE, PP, and PS continue rise
Additives: Chemtura, Baerlocher reach stabilizer agreements
Additives: Clariant, Milliken extend arrangement
Stanford researcher who linked BPA to estrogen discusses discovery
Injection molding: Moll adds cleanroom in Mexico
Film extrusion: Gloucester Engineering targets global growth
PC inventor honored
Auxiliaries: Dukane opens automotive center
Polymerupdate global resin pricing and plant news
IDES launches spot resin market
e-Weekly News Briefs, May 15
Design: Autodesk to acquire Moldflow
TPE resin pricing: PE, PP, and PS all rising
Pipe Extrusion: PPI looks for political heroes
Film extrusion: Brampton delivers 11-layer line
Moldmaking: Ace and KM bring SpinForm to China
Film extrusion: Additive helps bag litter disappear
Record M&A activity for packaging in 2007
iGPS to supply RFID-equipped pallets to Dole
Polymerupdate global resin pricing
Greening: Bayer finds proprietary route to biobased polyols
IDES—The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
e-Weekly News Briefs, May 6
MPW’s Product Watch: New machinery and equipment
MPW’s Material Thoughts: New plastics, additives, fillers and compounds
One thing leads to another
Time is money, so prototype for profit
Invest now for better employees later
Hosokawa Alpine dedicates new production facility
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review: PE, PP, and PS all
Injection molding: Optical moldings match diamond-turned glass
Extrusion: Xaloy debuts “step-change advance” for single-screw compounding
NPE adds MoldMaking Expo
Supply news: ExxonMobil bullish on Asia, and its new film materials
Materials: Metal alloy processes like plastic
Recycling: New Chicago home for PARC
Packaging: Greiner, RPC bring clever new products to Interpack
Chinaplas 2008: Bayer MaterialScience augments support in China
Polymerupdate global plastics pricing briefs
e-Weekly News Briefs, May 1
Design Focus: Time is money, so prototype for profit
Arburg draws 4100; new machines introduced
Arburg draws 4100; new machines introduced
Proven material learning new tricks in blends
Proven material learning new tricks in blends
Patent-pending twin-screw feeder design
Blown-film line tackles HDB
Hybrid tank/table offers flexibility
Specialty die enhances multilayer coextrusion
Unstable voltage no problem for controller
Variety of thermocouples supported
Product Focus: Printing & Decorating
Expert on mold pressure sensors offers guidance to processors
Offerings highlighted for injection process
Feeder, loader combination
PET stretch blowmolding line launched
Software is hardware-independent
Cleanroom welding
Welding software meets FDA standards
All-electric spin welding
Compact power supplies
Easing monitoring
Low-cost gravimetric feeder promises accuracy
Expo highlights latest developments
In the Spotlight with JM Eagle
Doing the duo: Servos dock with hydraulic pumps
Taiwanese blowmolding machine goes all-electric
FR compounders rise to regulatory challenge
Chinaplas marks major step in Demag-Sumitomo integration
Medical market shows little slowdown (web-exclusive content)
Medical Technical Center offered online
VEM Tooling works to separate itself from the pack
Making Sure Our Future Workforce is Ready to Do Business
New technology helps prevent counterfeiting
PVC group defends material’s place in the medical market
Korean machine builders ride the servopump route
Medical market shows little slowdown (web-exclusive content)
Kiefel's CAT system will make operators purr
Faerch Plast adds capacity, and plans even more
New TPO offering built to beat PMMA, other TPOs
PWP expands PP and PET capacity; offers compostable trays
Marbach acquires automation specialist
Plug materials developed for pharma applications
Short runs
Get ready for next SPE thermoforming event
Chinaplas 2008: Show marks major step in Demag-Sumitomo integration
Chinaplas 2008: Wittmann welcomes controversy surrounding Battenfeld purchase
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review: PE, PP steady; PS steady, higher
Chinaplas 2008: Rapid, Conair reveal expansion plans
Chinaplas 2008: Rapid Chinese growth doesn’t yet equal local manufacturing for Maguire
Chinaplas 2008: Increasing quality demands heat up hot runner market for Incoe
Chinaplas 2008: Chinese PA, PC, and compound plans for Solutia, Sabic IP, and Ticona
Chinaplas 2008: Mattec expands in China as monitoring interest grows
Chinaplas 2008: Futaba, D-M-E announce strategic alliance
Chinaplas 2008: Controller upgrades a barometer for better processing
Conflicting studies on BPA no matter as Nalgene, others drop PC
Belgian processors invest to sustain development
Polymerupdate global plastics pricing briefs
E-Weekly News Briefs, April 23
Feast of plenty: new blowmolding grades target wide variety of uses
Graham updates shuttle and wheel lines for open house
Spotlight on stretch blowmolding: news from Graham, Sidel, W. Amsler
Taiwanese blowmolding machine goes all-electric
Gaplast expands bag-in-bottle capacity
O2 scavenger gets FDA approval
GSK awards green belt to Pretium employee
Capsnap opens new 5-gallon site in Romania
Injection molding: Engel to build Querétaro tech center
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
Dubai Plast Pro 2008—Rowad adds BOPP; M.E. ETP interest lags; APPC and Natpet bring PP plants online
Hand lent to help solve fake pipe problem
Arburg shifts to direct presence in Mexico
Automotive: Saving the world tops saving costs
Injection molding: MPC acquires trio of competitors
MGS Mfg. Group Inc. opens new facility in Mexico
ProMold plastics expands
Polymerupdate global plastics pricing briefs
IDES—The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
e-Weekly News Briefs, April 15
Injection molding: Arburg open house draws 4000; new machines introduced
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review: PE, PP higher; PS steady
Plastics supply: Borouge eyeing PO output boost in Middle East
Injection molding: Engel installs 5500-tonne machine for Graf
Recession from speculation to reality...
...but Italian plastics processing equipment makers glow in 2007
Additives: Songwon to invest in Middle Eastern facility
Thermoforming: TPO sheet takes on PMMA, other TPOs
Composites: JER Envirotech to expand to South Carolina
Polymerupdate global plastics pricing briefs
IDES—The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
e-Weekly News Briefs, April 8
Conference report: Middle East capacity will change plastics landscape
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review: PE steady, PP and PS higher
New industrial park links petrochemicals to plastics to finished goods
Petrobas president details Brazilian expansion plans for PE, PP and PET
Blowmolding: With Technigraph purchase, Alpha can offer more services
Extrusion: HTI acquires Theysohn Group
Cast-film extrusion: Promotions, forward strategy announced at EDI
Injection molding: e-max on tour
Automotive: Ford discusses soy-based foams
Polymerupdate.com Global Plastics Pricing Briefs
e-Weekly News Briefs, April 3
Executive Q&A with Christina Schäfer
Notable Processors 2008
Get your price
Dubai Plast Pro ’08—Rowad adds BOPP; M.E. ETP interest lags; APPC and Natpet bring PP plants online
Make Every Pellet Count: Extrusion technology opens door to save that scrap
Industry News & Analysis
Germs beware - Antimicrobial plastics launched
Germs beware - Antimicrobial plastics launched
Germs beware - Antimicrobial plastics launched
Germs beware - Antimicrobial plastics launched
Germs beware - Antimicrobial plastics launched
Germs beware - Antimicrobial plastics launched
Germs beware - Antimicrobial plastics launched
Germs beware Antimicrobial plastics launched
Processing Technology
Mission Plastics
WPC finding new markets worldwide
Compression molded multilayer closures? Here they come
Profile extrusion: new applications, technology entering market
Thermally conductive plastics continue their charge
PLA could face tough trek for bottle market
New TCUs sport flexibility, ease of use, and of course energy savings
Size reduction: bulky containers are no problem
Cumberland unit offers flexible solutions
Energy-efficient drying takes off
Wheel of drying
Tube hopper tackles powders
Auxiliary supplier shifts to Siemens PLCs
Names in the news: Sipe leading Heat Transfer Team at Conair
Abu Dhabi plans centralized chemicals area
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review: PE lower, PP steady/lower, PS higher
Thermoforming: PWP Industries expands
Greening of an Industry: Brandowner and retailer perspectives
New materials one sure highlight for Aseanplas
Composites: ballistic helmet maker ramps up production
Automotive: Denso plan new HVAC facility
Packaging: PET, Plasmax pair for wine bottles
Film extrusion: European market leads the way in specialty films...
...and Sigma adds D-S stretch, blown lines
Polymerupdate.com Global Plastics Pricing Briefs
e-Weekly News Briefs, March 25
Thermally conductive compounds: hot enough for you?
Cold grinding gives plastics new 'character'
Compounds boost EMI/RFI shielding
Vinyl compounds weather well
Automotive application: LGF-PP compounds helps cut costs
Kneader works well with wire compounds
Increased fee volume, more torque for compounder
Compounders benefits from unit's new design
Injection molding: Wittmann buys Battenfeld, sees possible purchasing, service synergies
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review: PE and PP steady, PS steady/higher
Plastics machinery, equipment sales slow in 2007
Greening of an Industry: GPEC honors achievements in sustainability
Moldmaking: And the winner is...
Eastman liking looks of Tritan
Polymerupdate.com Global Plastics Pricing Briefs
Blowmolding: Gaplast expands its bag-in-bottle capacity
IDES-The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
e-Weekly News Briefs, March 19
Packaging pushes through economic problems...
...as packaging M&A sets record in 2007
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review: PP higher, PE/PS steady to higher
Closed-loop recycling sees cost savings, less waste
Teknor Apex announces changes in Europe
Mold-Masters shifts U.S. operations from South Carolina to Detroit
Rex TCS barrel technology given Wisconsin energy credits
Greening of an Industry: DSM to launch Chinese PHA plant
Greening of an Industry: Cereplast signs sheet supplier agreement
Streamlined R&D research
IDES—The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
e-Weekly News Briefs, March 11, 2008
Injection molding: Sumitomo closes on Demag
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review: PE, PS up; PP bouncing
Blowmolding: Graham updates shuttle and wheel lines for open house
German plastics processors show upbeat attitude
Huntsman to boost MDI production in the Netherlands
Albemarle, PolyOne expand additive presence in China
Automotive: Zytel replaces metal in Golf's exhaust
Automotive: Exatec to expand glazing-development lab
Printed electronics project launched
Polymerupdate.com Global Plastics Pricing Briefs
IDES—The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
e-Weekly News Briefs, March 3-7
Suppliers say: Bioresins taking bloom
Survey says: Limited immediate future for bioplastics
Interpack takes long look at bioplastics
Timber takes on toys
Reclaim unit promises pellets from Pampers
Cereplast to expand bioplastics production 10-fold
Braskem, Dow after PE from sugar cane ethanol
High growth foreseen for bioplastics
Can you guess? Spartech Corp.'s Rejuven8
Executive Q&A with Jack Sparacio
Record return to Shanghai for Chinaplas
Set the sustainability agenda
Surface appeal more than skin deep
First Look: Industry News & Analysis
Germs beware Antimicrobial plastics launched
Right time to sell? When you're ready, says expert
Plasticos Mueller, São Paulo, Brazil
Market conditions ripe for hot runner advances
RIM reacts to vehicle makers’ demands
DMD making itself useful to moldmakers
Plastec packs them in
LSR is hot
Rapid’s the game
Consumers in need could be processors’ friends indeed
After-hours brainstorming produces vibrant results
NPE exhibitors lay claim to booth space
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review: PE, PP lower; PS steady to climbing
European compounding sector showing changing trends
Rieter sells pelletizing machinery business
Milacron weathers rough 2007, sees further challenges in 2008
Biodegradable plastic gets call for coffee mugs
New PET grade offers UV protection
BASF develops PS alternative to PET dairy bottles
IDES—The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
Global Plastics Pricing Briefs from Polymerupdate.com
e-Weekly News Briefs, February 25-29
Sabic expands long-fiber compounding in Korea
Despite fewer fakes found, processors warned of problem
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review: PE mixed, PP down, PS firmer
Chinaplas returns to Shanghai larger than ever
Conair upgrades downstream tubing products and will undertake trials
KraussMaffei, Toshiba sign agreement—on what, exactly, remains open
Smithers Rapra offers new consulting service
Embree may rescue a second troubled molder
Thermoforming: Marbach acquires automation specialist
Polymerupdate.com Global Plastics Pricing Briefs
e-Weekly News Briefs, Febuary 18-25
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Extrusion: Conference report—WPCs crossing Atlantic
Extrusion: Profile extrusion keeps getting faster
Extrusion: Spotlight on…Screws & barrels
Extrusion: System cuts, dries WPC pellets for easy processing
Extrusion: Getting perfect cuts takes special saws
Extrusion: PE grade said to help conserve water reserves
Extrusion: PTFE coating for medical tubes
Extrusion: High output highlights recent extruder entry
Extrusion: Conair completes move to new HQ
Coating line flexibility: of course you want it, but how to get it?
Automation not just for injection molders
Here, environmental awareness sets the tone
New silkscreen units already see their day in the sun
Inks require no Prop. 65 warning label
Wax dispersions get mat effect
German processors look back on stellar 2007, foresee uncertain future
PEDI to expand cleanroom
Eastman launches online Medical Technical Center
Toshiba meets ANSI standard, adds rep agency and sales manager
Mack makes large-part molding moves
JK Molds inaugurates six-machine cleanroom
NPE 2009 to pair with ANTEC
Demag, Sumitomo finalize merger
TPE Week in Review: PE, PP down; PS steady
Global Plastic Pricing Briefs from Polymerupdate.com
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e-Weekly News Briefs, February 11-15
Plastech, Chrysler reach impasse
Cinpres wins (it seems) a lengthy patent fight
Bayer nabs C&A's PUR tech
Optimizing mold-pressure sensors
Plastics distributor Chase Plastics announces growth plans
German plastics-packaging group sends warning flares
Global Pricing Briefs from Polymerupdate.com
IDES-The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
TPE Week in Review: PE, PP down, PS flat
e-Weekly News Briefs, Feb. 4-8
Cast PP gaining ground: Lower initial investment offers processors advantages
Bag litter be gone
Engel to end manufacturing in Canada
Bourdon named KM's injection boss
Sabic, Sinopec plan giant PE venture
GW Plastics adding LSR molding
European films group makes plastics bags case
RTi adds PE unit
Brown Machine changes ownership
Global Pricing Briefs from Polymerupdate.com-PET prices drop
Global Pricing Briefs from Polymerupdate.com-Iranian start-up may have slipped
Global Pricing Briefs from Polymerupdate.com-GPPS and HIPS prices in Asia adjust down
Global Pricing Briefs from Polymerupdate.com-PP prices in Asia firm
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The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs, Jan. 28-Feb. 3
Make Every Pellet Count: Preventive maintenance—A check in time maximizes uptime
Industry News & Analysis
Executive Q&A with David Slick Sr.
Screws put new spin on foam PLA
Makeover for established electric press
Flexible automation helps organize bottles
Molded Rubber and Plastic Corp., Butler, WI
New materials take the heat, and much more
Building better barrier
Films processor wraps R&D around sausages
Packaging developer aims to enhance product value
EATS warns of price hike for car interior plastics
Layoffs at The Tech Group
Teknor unit Chem Polymer closes Florida facility
Abu Dhabi announces Polymer Park
ExxonMobil boosts Louisiana compounding
Global Pricing Briefs from Polymerupdate.com
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs, January 21-25
Packaging M&A to slow in '08
Global Pricing Briefs from Polymerupdate.com
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
Sumitomo, after expansion rumblings, will buy Demag Plastics Group
Nokia shuts last German cell phone plant; Balda sells German ops
Battenfeld gets needed funds; new owners begin to circle
Sabic, partner plan new PBT capacity
Ticona adds compounding site in China
Husky, Conair pair in PET
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
Global Pricing Briefs from Polymerupdate.com
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e-Weekly News Briefs, January 14-18
Freudenberg-NOK expands medical presence with APEC
Bag ban pushed in China; NYC offers recycling reprieve
MBA adds UK plastics-recycling plant
Oxygen scavenger news expected at Nova-Pack event
KM's IPO, Demag's sale: rumor mill turns but that's it so far
An ugly word--bankruptcy--could be heard more often in 2008
AMBA joins TMTA
e-Weekly News Briefs, January 7-11
Update: Adcuram repeals sale of Battenfeld; bankruptcy unaffected
Following sale by Adcuram, Battenfeld's injection business files for insolvency
Automotive manufacturing accelerates in Russia
Alcoa bows out of plastics packaging
Global TPE demand on the rise
Exopack acquires film portion of DuPont's Liquid Packaging Systems business
Solvay Indupa invests in sugar-cane-derived ethylene for PVC
Global Pricing Briefs from Polymerupdate.com
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs, Jan. 1-4
Q&A with Jack Shedd
K Review: It’s the part that counts (and it’d be nice if the machine wasn’t too pricey)
K Review: Blowmolding plugs in, powers on at K
K Review: The beat goes on
K Review: Equipment makers report
K Review: Records are made to be broken
New year, new features
KM's IPO, Demag's sale: rumor mill turns but that's it so far
Get the paint out
K Review: Equipment makers report
First Look: Industry News and Analysis
First Look Industry News and Analysis
Cures rubber faster; makes better parts, too
Spotlight: Ukrplastic, Kiev, Ukraine
Blowmolding: Additives turn PET into wow
Additives turn PET into wow
Additives turn PET into 'wow'
Moldmaker hot on mold cooling tech
Spotlight on blowmolding machinery Electric machines punctuate October’s K show
Kautex refines, relaunches its long stroke machine
Economical leak testing for lower cavitation
Nestlé Waters takes Sidel's 200,000th mold
Label system reaps savings for big bottle blowmolder
Experienced manager joins Amsler team
Trim press/automation package really packs them in (to bags and boxes)
Tooling technologies offer cycle reductions, parts improvements
Sheet processor wants to transform APET market
IR dryer helps clean up APET/PE mixed scrap
Awards competition slated for April in Berlin
Exclusive distributor named for syntactic foams
PEEK sheet offered for thermoforming
From TuLiP to Slim: Got to lose weight
Kureha plans PGA plant at DuPont site
Basell plans Caribbean PP plant
Medtronic invests in Chinese medical-device manufacturer
Bayer signs on Brenntag to distribute nanotubes
DSM invests in renewable polymers, Novomer
Simpson out at Milacron after 13 months
Global pricing briefs from Polymerupdate.com
e-Weekly News Briefs, Dec. 24-28
PolyOne adds color lab in France
Albemarle adds phosphorous-free FR facility in China
Increased transport costs expected to negatively impact container sector
Bayer buys up C&A TPU technology
Vinyl Institute reacts to PVC pushback
Changes for EU PVC scrap regulations pushed
Global pricing briefs from Polymerupdate.com
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs, Dec. 17-21
Dow rolls PE, PP, and PC into JV with Kuwaiti firm
Indorama buys Eastman assets; Europe's PET industry remains in flux
Sears gives PVC the boot
WPC conference introduces winners, new quality seal
Cereplast to expand sustainable plastics production 10-fold
U.S. plastics equipment shipments not pretty, but on the rise
Iran maintains big petrochemical plans
MIM making waves in German market
Global Pricing Briefs from Polymerupdate.com
IDES-The Plastics Web: Search of the Week (PET)
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs Dec. 10-14
K show proves high mark during industry high point
Let the rising tide lift your ship
Songwon partners with W. Zink, plans European expansion
Saint Gobain controls freeglass; Schefenacker changing name
Graham launches new Turkish blowmolding plant
Argotec expands film extrusion
Crystal, or perhaps plastics, ball gazer foresees bright polymer future
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs Dec. 3-7
IDES—The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
Styrenic changes afoot at BASF, Dow, and Chevron Phillips
Bulk resin deliveries help cut overall cost structure
First Look: Industry news & analysis
About 40 grams too many
In B&C, pipe defies housing woes
Flatscreen TVs overtake CRT shipments
Medical sector remainshealthy bet for processors
Prognosticating packaging in 2008
Sales integration requires careful planning
Spotlight: Plastics Unlimited, Preston, Iowa
Inmold out in the cold in North America
Solvay sells PP compounding business to Basell
European Parliament considers relaxing packaging rules
KM seals first SkinForm deal
Husky hits PET record
New sustainable plastics player
Dairy adds PLA preform molding
IDES—The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs Nov. 26-30
Azdel sold to Korea's Hanwha; Sabic IP continues restructuring
Equipolymer expands European PET presence
Matrix builds blowmolding site
Dow makes moves
PS too tight to deliver; BASF ready to sell styrenics
Johnson Controls buys former Visteon interiors site
ExxonMobil adds Chinese Santoprene warehousing
Toyota leads with thermoformable thermoset foam
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs Nov. 19-23
PolyOne purchases GLS
Ineos ties PE cost to quarterly prices
Macro inks Indian sales at K
SIG has new tech home in Brazil
Delphi and Lear release reorganized results
Cereplast boosts PLA performance with nanotechnology
Milacron narrows loss on basis of European growth and U.S. retraction
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs Nov. 12-16
K 2007 attendance jumps, and visitors came to buy
Adcuram acquires Hennecke
U.S. plastics post trade surplus in ‘06
CVG acquires Gage Industries’ heavy-gauge thermoforming ops
ADM to add biobased chemicals unit
ExxonMobil posts lower profits
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs Nov. 5-9
Design Focus: The ‘perfect weld’
Challenge and opportunity aplenty
SMS announce sales of BGE at the K
Good show? Great show? Positively fantastic show!
Applications crown Arburg’s molding developments
W&H finds buyer for Varex on its stand
Songwon: A new global player in additives
Davis-Standard: €10 million sold by halftime
Reifenhäuser sets CPP record
Thermoplay remodels Series D nozzles
Dornier delivers first BOPP lines to India
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs October 29-Nov. 2
The Greening of an Industry: Soybeans make for green PUR
First Look: Industry News & Analysis
Toy industry struggling as prime selling season starts
Managing compliance in an outsourced world
System analyzes OTR for PET bottles
Software eases moldmakers' worries
Injection molding: Microcellular foaming for smaller presses
Injection molding: Compact temperature control
Injection molding: Automating assembly
Injection molding: Temperature control systems offer extended warranty
Extrusion: Single-layer die heads benefit from design
Extrusion: Better alignment of web-handling systems
Extrusion: Corrugators make fast work of big pipe sizes
Extrusion: Unit stars for lab, small production
Extrusion: Method transforms PET bottles back into...bottles
Thermoforming: Trimming thermoformed parts
Screws/Barrels: Manufacturer says unit lasts three times longer
Davis-Standard adds new DS8000 barrel lining
Molds & tooling: Fast tooling changes realized
Auxiliaries: Film and fibers economically, effectively shredded
Auxiliaries: Unit helps processors eliminate production waste
Auxiliaries: Cuts press-side dust
Shredder takes the grind out of maintenance
Rapid manufacturing: New system hopes to overcome doubts on RP/RM
Secondary finishing: Machining center cuts plastics, and costs
Secondary finishing: Standard on the excelsior
Secondary finishing: Oven cures film’s coating
Welding: Integrated design benefits reliable set up, operation
Welding: Printing & decorating entry-level printing
Plastic-Worx, Nuremberg, Germany
TPEs stretch their performance limits
Cheap molds but high-cost parts? A Japanese moldmaker's take on molds 'Made in China'
Raising the bar for thermoformed parts
Tubes technology could make its mark—for injection molders
New Tritan copolyester solves crazing problem
Arburg sailing towards record sales, again
Sabic expands sheet production
Bayer technologies slash environmental impact
Evonik Degussa Plans Biopolymer Foray
Plastics Exchange week in review
IDES—The Plastics Web® Search of the Week: Finding Automotive Plastics
Brampton announces sales trifecta, including 11-layer line
Solar panel technology moves forward
Technology first with PP body panels
Techne exhibits latest all-electric EBM Advance
Top of the Chinese BOPS
Engineering expert warns cities to stop street digging projects
Bayer creates plastics lab to spark interest in science
Thieves hit the bottle for new income source
QarmaQ drives into Detroit
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs Oct. 15-19
Balda sell-off: the end of mobile-phone molding in Europe?
Arburg expands presence in U.S.
BASF opens Shanghai automotive center
DuPont consolidates TPE production
Bishop parts ways with Demag
Bayer, Faurecia develop RIM alternative for automotive skins
Cereplast launches bio/petroleum PP hybrid
Spartech buys thermoformer
Ineos Nova shuts down Montreal PS plant
42% of all plastics destined for extrusion
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs Oct. 8-12
Bayside buys Glencore out of Milacron
Conair emphasizes extrusion with reorganization, acquisition
German machinery OEMs double prediction for 2007 sales
Short-run niche extends into medical molding for Donnelly
Cargill, Teijin partner for NatureWorks
Gammaflux goes further on warranty
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs Oct. 1-5
K 2007 Preview: Back to the future
K, front and center
Bioresins bloom at K
Make every pellet count: The daily grind takes on added importance
The Greening of an Industry: Suppliers pouring into ‘green’ plastics
First Look: Industry News & Analysis
Pliable wrapping flexes its muscles
Long-term testing critical for material selection
Know your process to choose the right runner
R.I.P. $0.40/lb PE
The skinny: buying tools from China
One offshore success story
The global operation, industrial style
Nova Industries, Dubai, U.A.E.
Move to modular
Robots prove a big deal for large parts
Gigantic construction project
Beyond B&C
Complex inspection system helps overcome printing errors
Reinventing the company
Husky announces deal with Onex
Dow launches soy-based polyol, joining a growing field
New processor plans big splash in APET sheet market
RJG forms Chinese mold-training partnership
ACC steps up advocacy, plans California ad campaign
First half of ’07 a boon for entire German plastics sector
Utech, CPI team for record PUR event
Momentive to open integrated site in China
Battenfeld returns to solid footing, large machine manufacturing
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs Sept. 24-28
Mars is from Haitian; Venus is from Zhafir
DAK/Alfa buy, build PET capacity
Plastics set to benefit from flexible packaging demand
2006 strongest year for plastics in 21st century
Bayer to expand European MDI capacity
California pushes phthalate ban in toys
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs Sept. 17-21
Ampac buys German stand-up pouch maker
Building better Velcro
Color-measuring system rugged enough for online use
Smaller, reorganized Delphi readies to emerge
Plastic fencing: regional demand differs greatly
EuPC expects further resin price increases
Hot runners optimized for MuCell; MuCell optimized for small molding machines
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs, September 10-14
Apart from GE, Sabic Innovative Plastics emphasizes growth
Integra adds in-house extrusion laminating/coating
Coating most everything, and uniformly too
Additives maker makes big donation
New LME regional contracts called helpful processor tool
Engel shifts moldmaking strategy
Presentations at K show highlight plastics’ possibilities
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs, September 3-7
Making more out of less
K 2007 Preview
Meaningful relationship needs help
Printing/decorating: Pad printing on large parts, and inks for medical
e-Weekly News Briefs August 6-10
Designing for the elderly: Targeting the wallet of the voice of experience
First Look: Industry News & Analysis
Printed electronics—unfolding in an application near you
Processor redefined
Metrics analysis equals success
Calling all processors: PetroRabigh wants you
PET beer bottles can be pasteurized
Robots/automation: Six-axis robots take the stand at Plastec Midwest
Extrusion: Seals contain PE during compounding
Downstream equipment for coiling and cutting
EXTRUSION: Device offers cross-profile web control
Quick-access screener speeds cleaning, changes
Consistent drive force takes demanding units
Innovative unit helps replace manual cutovers
Economical solution offered for web handling
Injection molding: Screw helps keep long fibers just that—long
Haitian places new machines in Europe
Injection molding: Battenfeld HM now in four clamping-force sizes
Rugged, flexible modules
Compact vertical machine offered as hybrid
THERMOFORMING: Compact sheet line gives big advantages
BLOWMOLDING: Special die heads help avoid weld lines
RIM: Babies find this design makes hospital stay friendly
Auxiliary equipment: Eliminates large runner bridging
Auxiliary equipment: New coating method shown for film, sheet industry
Larger batch blender for extrusion lines
Universal edge-strip granulator
Unit gets more from resin to stretch processors’ profits
Printing/decorating: Pad printing on large parts, and inks for medical
Rotary indexing press
Measuring/testing: Affordable testing equipment available
PACKAGING: Dust-free bagging system has many advantages
TESTING EQUIPMENT: Unit supports RoHS/WEEE compliance legislation needs
Plant management: Condensate removed
LAB EQUIPMENT: Unit might be small but it packs a lot of power
Ace Mold Co. Ltd., Shenzhen, China
Processors cast an eye toward latest technology
All wound up
Group offers new take on chemical foaming
Rapid processes gaining ground
Rx for a challenge
Austrian packaging processor makes phoenix-like recovery
Under the unrelenting sun
Molder Canon Virginia to manufacture 3D Systems
GE Plastics buys Bayer’s stake in Exatec
Offer may be made for Quadrant
Haitian takes over Zhafir operation
ATP packs more medical into Tempe facility
Solvay invests in printed electronics firm
Nanomaterial demand to eclipse $4 billion by 2011
JSW taps Windsor as sales partner
IDES—The Plastics Web®: Search of the Week
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs August 27-31, 2007
SAP partners for PEEK film
DuPont expands Asian PA compounding capacity
Borouge invests in China PP compounding site
Chinese conference focuses on WPCs
Outgoing PVC veteran sees progress, need for more work
Automated rotomolding comes to North America
BPA draws U.S. regulatory attention
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs, August 20-24
Dubai exchange to launch Asian, Mideast plastics futures
U.S. SMEs benefit from China trade
Indian polyester film giant plans Mexican foray
Win an extruder during the K show
Basell buying into upstream supply
Fakuma plastics show remains in Friedrichshafen
BASF adds polyphenylsulfone to portfolio
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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e-Weekly News Briefs August 13-17, 2007
European nylon grows faster than GDP
No holes in Swiss processors' progress
N.A. WPC decking to grow in spite of housing slump
Märtl leaves KraussMaffei
'e-waste' industry adds player, research
Overseas sourcing partner adds West Coast office
PCR-PET process wins FDA approval
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
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Polyamides tackle tough challenges in the auto and electronics sectors
Summertime, and the living is—hectic
Owens Corning acquires Saint-Gobain's composites unit
Fiber Composites buys Louisiana Pacific WPC plant
Plastics News acquires Emap publications, conferences
Hirschmann adds 100th Arburg to its arsenal
Ticona selects new acetal site
Husky/Gammaflux supplier deal ceases with Altanium purchase
Plastic Omnium buys Sulo, sells 3P
Big bucks in green building
IDES—The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs July 30-Aug. 3
See no downtime—and don’t want to, either
The Greening of an Industry: Bio-film meets demands for agri-film application
First Look: Industry News & Analysis
Power- and hand-tools market remains energized
High-performance, cost-competitive unit offere
Injection molding: Drop-in inline fiber unit
Extrusion: Equipment helps processors stretch their resin dollars
Injection molding: Control upgrades for hybrid machine
EIJ-Altivity, Milwaukee, WI
Granule cutting becomes an art
Rapid processes gaining ground
Platex Osaka showcases advances in injection precision, performance
Advances in automotive...
Processor sees benefits in specialties market with regrind
Apollo's Hexion outbids Basell for Huntsman; Basell lands Lyondell
Plastic solar cell advances heat up
How sweet it is! PE gets a sugary flavor
Safety, security highlight design competition
BASF shops styrenics
All-composite Humvee rolled out
SPI, VDMA, and Global Industry Analysts plastics machinery reports
TRW adds Slovakian molding, loses bid for VDO
Multi-Color sells packaging services to NFI Industries
IDES—The Plastics Web®: Search of the Week
E-Weekly News Briefs July 23-27, 2007
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
DPG plots future path with three primary products
Plastic, carbon nanotube composite for EMI shielding
Milacron extrusion announces overseas alliances
IDES-The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
Milacron announces plans for K, overseas expansion
Husky to offer Kortec multilayer-ready HyPET units
Software reverse engineers FEA
Vive la French molder, RJG-style
Arburg offers more for molders in Vietnam
IDES—The Plastics Web: Search of the Week
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs July 9-13
Husky adds Moldflow division, assesses other acquisition opportunities
Ineos buys again, this time Lanxess’ ABS business
Engel reconfigures North American manufacturing
First worldscale PVC plant planned for Russia
Pollmann adds facility in China
PET producer La Seda closes Amcor deal…
…as polyester remains a demanding market…
…and Alcan buys foamable PET technology
Bayer concludes Taiwanese urethanes buy
Apollo ups Huntsman ante to $6 billion
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
E-Weekly News Briefs July 2-6
Design Focus: Simulation—a primary part of the design process
What they want, when they want it, how they want it
The Greening of an Industry: For injection and blowmolding, packaging may not be first volume market for bioplastics
First Look: Industry News & Analysis
Competition in barrier technologies remains fierce
Attracting automotive manufacturing a top priority for states
New approach to cooling offers energy savings
Rotomolder helps self, other processors too
Standard injection molding unit becomes PET stretch blowmolding machine
Extrusion solutions build better fences
Coextruders go easy on space
Kruis Mold & Engineering, Elkhart, IN
Corrugated conduits chase new markets, applications
Dubai-based processor sees future tied to value-added goods
Chinaplas shows its international colors
Sabic acquires GE Plastics for $11.6 billion
Basell acquires Huntsman, adds chemicals footprint
Braskem throws hat in biobased ring; advances continue; legal squabble settled
La Seda looks at downstream PET expansion
KraussMaffei promises plenty for K; pairs IMC, TPU, and 2K
1000-plus celebrate Netstal's 150th
Woojeon targets telecom clients with U.S. office
Polimoon acquires Dekoplast, loses CEO
Lanxess back in black after restructuring
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
E-Weekly News Briefs June 25-29
DPG ceases machinery manufacture in Strongsville
Quickparts offers vision for rapid manufacturing's future
German plastics packaging reports rosy 2006
Bayer inaugurates Indian PUR systems house, BASF adds PUR in China
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs June 18-22
O-I unloads remaining plastics to Rexam
Netstal sees its future in hybrid, all-electric machines
Flextronics to acquire Solectron
Ineos continues buying spree
Permanent surface treatment for elastomers
Arburg records record turnover
Wittmann adds blenders to portfolio via M-Tek
KUKA, Negri Bossi pair for machines, robotics
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs June 11-15
Sabic to offer metallocene PE
Investment boom in Chinese BOPP sector
ExxonMobil extends collocation strategy to China
Lanxess opens China tech center
Rhodia Polyamide opens Chinese technical center
The Plastics Exchange week in review
e-Weekly News Briefs June 4-8
The Greening of an Industry: A growing market
Putting a value on the voice of experience
Victrex enters film-extrusion market
Chinaplas report: Milacron plans new tiebarless machines
Chinaplas report: Netstal books 96-cavity closure order
Chinaplas report: Synventive, Incoe expand China presence
Chinaplas report: Engel launches Shanghai plant, new all-electric line
Chinaplas report: Keya names new CEO
Chinaplas report: GLS expands Suzhou production, adds three products
Chinaplas report: Milacron, partners expand China WPC presence
Chinaplas report: Demag readies new Ningbo home
Antec report: Arburg founders honored by SPE
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs May 28-June 1
e-Weekly News Briefs June 11-15
Calling all processors: PetroRabigh wants you
Make Every Pellet Count: Squeezing out price benefits with regrind cuts overall costs
First Look: Industry News & Analysis
In rapidly changing automotive world, plastics prove an isle of constancy
A proper DOE pays big dividends later
Knowing the benchmark for your company’s value
ME looks back, forward on futures
Sipro plastic industries, Shah Alam, Malaysia
PUR expands horizons
Laser marking much more than just a pretty picture
More economical method used to create PUR raw materials
Polymer spray lengthens fresh produce shelf life
Cross-laminates development aims at biax film market
Change a constant in plastics predictions for the Middle East
Betting big on Russia’s profile market
Hand-me-down processing equipment picks up when new is hard to come by
It’s a small world after all
Non-PE Polymers look to fill regulatory-fueled gas-tank gap
Sabic acquires GE Plastics, pushes ahead PC plans
Sonoco scoops up Matrix
PET postings: Rieter-Automatik hosts specialty symposium…
…doors open for PET packaging consultant…
…and PET moldmaker R&D officially opens new digs
China charges down coal-to-polyolefins path
New CEO for Engel North America
New name on additives scene actually established supplier
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs May 21-25
News from Plast-Ex: Billion makes N.A. sales bid
Engel makes packaging push at Plast-Ex
Wittmann expands IML business
Servtek adds staff to support screw sales
Brampton's AquaFrost trials fully booked
Canada creates plastic processor certification
CDS expands
Pakistan's polymer market offers growth, opportunities
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs May 7-11
Erema expands; FDA approves bottle-to-bottle HDPE recycling
Inergy expands into China, Russia, and India
Haitian places new machines in Europe
Italian/German calender equipment JV
Jarden promotes recycled resin dinnerware
U.S. reinforced plastics to eclipse 4-billion lb by 2011
Aramco and Dow reach MOU
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs May 14-18
25 Notable Processors 2007
25 that thrive
Metabolix and ADM launch Telles, Mirel
Moldmaking Expo: Bales grows, Tri-Par consolidates, Catalina changes hands
EDI establishes Chinese presence
Teknor Apex expands in China
Middle East pipe standards, training academy announced
Packaging days at Engel, Austria
ReSale 07 raves about results
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs April 30-May 4
Automotive interiors graded on air quality
Design Focus: Flame retardants spark regulatory interest
First Look: Industry News & Analysis
Plastics the prescription for medical market
Putting a stop to product piracy
Image making: Selling plastic's value to the consumer
R&D Plastics, Hillsboro, OR
Profile extrusion speeds up
D-M-E deals with RoHS and WEEE
Onward and eastward
Vietnam: The new Asian tiger on the prowl
New European chemical rules set to have big impact on sector
Less is often—but not always—more when it comes to packaging
Integral's conductive compounds charging ahead
Sekisui joins Kleerdex and Allen
Tier One moves continue apace
Pennsylvania puts money where its trash is
Italian manufacturers remain export experts
No slowing China's GDP growth
PlasticsEurope head calls on plastics to polish public perception
Washington state moves closer to deca-BDE FR ban
European PVC recycling doubles in 2006
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs April 23-27
Berry rolls up Rollpak
Pactiv picks up Prairie
Solutia boosts Pensacola PA production
London, LA weigh bag bans in aftermath of San Francisco decision
Europe still leads in global masterbatch business
Product plagiarism granted permanent museum display
Progressive Components presents educational grant
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs April 16-20
Bemis cleans up at APP awards; external gas-assist makes splash in U.S.
First Nova and Ineos, now Dow and Chevron form styrenics JV
Fu Chun Shin pursuing high-end molders
Class-action lawsuit filed in California over Bisphenol-A in baby bottles
SPI goes from dot-org to dot-com with new site
BraunForm marks 30th with multi-material mold
Moldmaker opens doors in Costa Rica—competitive option to Asian tools?
Slowdown seen for U.S. plastics, manufacturing in 2007
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs April 9-12
Are your colored products legal in Europe?
The Greening of an Industry: Managing energy demand, lowering costs
Changes afoot
Tandem molding/MuCell combo doubles output
Despite rising resin costs Green Dot says consumers play less for plastics
U.S. / China trade dispute: Plastics not yet an issue
Belgian processors happy with increased demand
Converting show sees good growth, expects top attendance
Plastic bag bans spread, biobased solutions proposed
Ube with China JV for large molding machine manufacture
DSM to triple engineering plastics capacity in India
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs April 2-6
Make Every Pellet Count: The torque’s all about energy savings
First Look: Industry News & Analysis
Personal care raises color concerns
Innovating well is critical to success
Meridian drives out of bankruptcy
Safety concerns puts premium on metal detection
Three colors on LSR press with one barrel and one injection unit
Technology produces virgin-like pellets from PET bottle scrap
Product Focus: Film technology developments
Back to basics helps save time, money
Combination line targets thermoforming packaging
No cross-contamination with this new design
Unit makes quick work of tough material jobs
Big energy savings help achieve fast payback
Desiccant units handle all kinds of hygroscopic resins
Encapsulation doubles screw life
Producer expands offering of extruder screws, barrels
Cavity temp sensor fits anywhere
Uncommonly strong pull with rare earth magnets
This elbow takes knocks without any complaints
Unit eases shredding of bulky containers
Masterbatch doser takes labor out of processing
Innovation claims to be world first on the market
System handles range of tests
Keeping molds hot or cold is easy work with this line
Nozzle innovation improves injection operating conditions
Ultra hot runner line expanded
Threaded metal inserts as you want them
Bench-top system permits high accuracy
Accuracy with operation ease highlights this unit
Formed tubular heaters prove easy to configure
Mar-Lee Companies, Fitchburg, MA
OEMs return–again–to captive processing
Vendor, OEM benefit from close
Chinaplas 2007: Mammoth showcase befits status of processing giant
Small beer? Hardly. Processors tap into beer packaging
Auto part export opportunities accelerate in China
Leather-fiber reinforcement highlights Arburg open house
Nova, Ineos join PS businesses on both sides of the Atlantic
ExxonMobil Chemical benefits from integration to the well
Dow sees bright future in cable; Borealis does too
Quantum Leap made for plastics in semiconductor packaging
Cristal grabs TiO2 business as Lyondell off-loads
Trex trudges through 2006, new production hits snag
Kautex gains financial backing for MBO
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs March 26-30
Mosingo comes full circle with C&A, Cadence
Apollo shuffles portfolio, combines Berry and Covalence
Ticona offers innovation help to bring good ideas to reality
Chevron Phillips sees future in new bimodal product range
GE and Hyundai roll out concept car
European bankruptcies to rise
The Plastics Exchange Week In Review
E-weekly News Briefs March 19-23
BMS expands rapidly with Acrotech acquisition
Big organizational changes for K-M, Berstorff, and Demag
Automotive interiors graded on air quality
Florian named AMBA's top moldmaker
Latin American PO processing market showing new growth
Metabolix awaits FDA approval, plans brand initiative
U.S. stemming tide on plastics product deficit
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
E-weekly News Briefs March 12-16
Deep Partnering
Time passes, things change, and so, too, must your parts’ design
Sold: New owner takes over for major extruder brands
In play: Husky considering offers...
…and Bayer shopping Hennecke
Perlos exits processing in Finland
Offensive against fakers having an effect
China partners with ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco for worldscale PO plant
Dow injecting big capital into giant plant for Infuse
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
E-weekly News Briefs March 5-9
The Greening of an Industry: PVC again awaits its environmental labeling fate
Design Focus: Start at the beginning
First Look: Industry News & Analysis
Market Update: Plastics welcomed in the home
Buying molds from China, or caveat emptor
Geba Kunststofftechnick, Ennigerloh, Germany
Regrind amounts can affect application weld strength
Web-exclusive: Masterbatcher helps coffee king shine
Web-exclusive: TFE catheter tubing etched inline
Vitopel’s growth underlines strength
Auxiliaries alliance creates new machinery force
Moldflow tours U.S. with new, pending products
StackTeck pursues RiTemp mold-cooling technology
Alpha buys Quality, plastics M&A continues apace
USGBC punts on PVC
German processors see rosier times but have more difficulty making profit
Ireland, IKEA target bags
NAHB, ICC announce Green Building agreement
E-Weekly News Briefs Feb. 26-March 2
Auxiliaries alliance creates new equipment force
Canon Communications acquires Plastics USA from SPI
Cereplast expands California operation
Arburg augments American support
Milacron bolsters screw-coating offerings, promotes Nuzzie; Bourdon leaves
Husky expands Ultra line
APEC adds China plant for medical molding
New medical grades punctuate MD&M show
Huntsman sells U.S. commodities
New name, facility for UPG
The Plastics Exchange week in review
e-Weekly News Briefs Feb. 19-23
LME expands scope of polyolefin futures
Klöckner, ALBA pen deal for PET bottle recycling
BASF joins U.S. firm to bring organic semiconductors to market
Sonoco closes books on 2006
Ohio invests in plastics
BASF: demand spurs new PES, POM capacity
Ethylene supply in peril?
Netstal saw small drop in 2006; new products coming this year
The Plastics Exchange week in review
e-Weekly News Briefs Feb. 12-16
Dow digs for PS, PP partners
Classic draws Ace for medical molding
Gossen, India's Jain build B&C partnership
Qatar's Doha Plastics adding WPC extrusion
Plastic pipe #1: Pressure increases on leaking-pipe operators
Plastic pipe #2: C-PVC gets broad California approval
Processor pleased with Demag's first Titan
Plastics Exchange week in review
e-Weekly News Briefs Feb. 5-9
Plastics plagiarism problems plague processors
No easy money in emerging markets
New equipment promises inline decoration
Take one: and the winner is...
Take two: and the winner is...
Lear sees record sales, continuing loss
Ashland reconfigures following Dow departure
Research without borders spells cooperation for both parties
The Plastics Exchange week in review
e-Weekly News Briefs Jan. 29-Feb. 3
Holistic product design: bringing the manufacturing and design teams together
PLA film coatings replacing thermoplastics
Find your niche. Diversify. Repeat
Feeders' appetites go on a diet to minimize material wastage
First Look: Industry News & Analysis
Tweezers help designers get grip Tweezers help designers get grip on mechoptronics
Resins/Compounds: Lamp socket components light up with these
Housing starts important, but technological advance trumps
Putting China’s moldmaking industry in perspective
After surviving, processors choose to thrive
Drying plants offer energy-saving functions
Material handling: New filter handles agglomerative dust
Batch weigh/vacuum conveyor results in accurate material use
Injection Molding: Units offer wide range of processing sizes
Extrusion: Twin-screw compounder employs new melt pump
Extrusion: Blown-film take-off unit maintains web quality
Low operating cost highlights drying system
Winders: Single servo offers smoothness and consistency
Grendene, Brazil
No standing still among hot runner suppliers
New material promising for mold inserts
Method developed to better calculate crash
Engineering plastics seen as offering expansion possibilities
Trim that neck with low-profile closures
Polish processor wins growing business with stretch films
Wear-resistant cladding helps compounder overcome problems
Pipe powers join
Japanese moldmaker opens California plant
Dow to shutter Aussie PS facility
Global Insights: What's next for U.S. manufacturing?
The Plastics Exchange Week in Review
e-Weekly News Briefs Jan. 22-26
O-I mulls divestiture of remaining plastics
Brückner acquires Kiefel
LME sees future changes for plastics futures
Siemens, Macchi go gearless
AMBA offers 10-year moldmaking retrospective
German plastics recycling agency takes stand on regulation changes
e-weekly News Briefs, Jan. 15-19
German plastics producers show moderate optimism for 2007
The Greening of an Industry: Cereplast sees opportunity
Editorial: A wish list for 2007
The Plastics Exchange week in review
Design Focus: Inseparable for life: the Holy Grail of joining disparate materials
First look: Industry News & Analysis
New materials for the New Year
PA 4,6 nudges LCP aside
New ABS grade permits processing without drying
Appliances' new look
Partnerships, formal and informal, offer opportunities for growth
Six Sigma not just for global players
Coextrusion line targets processor resin savings
Compact with this unit doesn't mean low torque
Molding machine targets TPE/TPR processing
Closure testing device
Multichannel cabling extended to include temperature signals
Cablenet Wiring Products Inc., Centennial, CO
What follows plenty of choice? How about more choice.
Promising process mixes blowmolding with injection
Biocompatability demands steer medical device developments
Dragon economy fueling expansion for Rosti
New confidence puts Turkey back on the processing map
Silgan captures Cousins-Currie
Saint-Gobain acquires CPT
D-M-E opens China subsidiary
Vinyl fencing spares pastor’s home
Premium fiberglass doors using LFI-PUR
e-Weekly News Briefs Dec. 25-29
BASF charged up on fuel cells' future
Delphi finds financial backing for reorganization
Roper ropes Dynisco
Opportunity in the pipeline due to regulatory change; plastic pipes resist contamination
Rohm and Haas forms Chinese JV
E-weekly News Briefs, December 18-22
Metrics that Matter for manufacturing success
Sealed Air adds bioplastics to its quiver
Gerresheimer buying Wilden
Energy prices expected to push polymer prices higher again...
...but is relief on the horizon?
Guide shows how to realize energy savings
Haitian forming JV in Russia
Middle East plastics shows close 2006—one with a bang, another a bust
E-weekly News Briefs, December 11-15
MHT slapped with fine, strikes back with expansion
Lear unloads N.A. interiors to Ross; C&A's and Delphi's next?
Sonoco finalizes acquisitions, overseas expansions, and domestic closures
To the Victor go the spoils
Metal/plastics hybrids fronting two more cars
K-M fills research gap, bets on spray-skin PUR
Asahi Glass expands ETFE capacity
Bobst Group books big Mideast order
E-Weekly News Briefs, Dec. 4-8
Out with desperation, in with discipline
Prediction time: Peering into 2007
The greening of an industry
LCA reveals true environmental friendliness of plastics
Gerresheimer closes on Wilden
Norstar and M-Plast reach Indian rotomolding pact
Toyota's breathing down The Big 2's necks
Cantex plans Arizona manufacturing, distribution site
Myers Industries buying ITML Horticultural Products
East Germany set for site of new flexible matrix plant
e-Weekly News Briefs, Jan. 1-5
GE Plastics for sale?
Two machinery makers close books on 2006
Brown Machine, Epco merged within Pacific Press Technologies
New moldmaker opens doors
Autobar purchased
e-Weekly News Briefs, Jan. 8-12
Additives aid design in daunting applications
First Look: Industry News & Analysis
Polyolefin maker concocts special grades with the help of processors
Polyolefin grades aid processors' applications
High-density grade milks dairy market
Blown-film grade enhances processing
Bumper fascia requires demanding resin grade
Specialty PP grades take on the big freeze
Food packaging benefits from clear polypropylene
Instrument panels benefit from advanced properties
Clarity, low shrink temperature featured in film packaging
Prediction time: Peering into 2007
There's gold in the supply chain
Finding your competitive edge
Human resources at USI: Driving the business with passion
Blowing in the wind
Barrel liners available to handle tough jobs
An Alpha by any other name would work even better
Date code inserts last many a date
High-capacity sheet-extrusion system handles low-melt-strength resins
Feed me what you will–even liquids
Roller Pullers fine for controlling parting lines
Robert F. Cervenka, Phillips
Wood-plastic composites build new markets
Switching gears?
Roto gives new materials a spin
Human resources at USI: Driving the business with passion
Processors see possibilities to east of Central Europe
Brazil’s northeast sees boom in plastics industry
Device boom propels MA molders
Reifenhäuser teams up with Rotomec for coating technology
Toyota's Tundra plant starts its engines
Bioplastics take root in Europe
TRW expands in China
Molder adds a Malaysian facility
Pakistani cars take advantage of PUR's foam properties
E-Weekly News Briefs, Nov. 27-Dec. 1
K-Tron to acquire Chinese auxiliaries firm
Are plastics part of green B&C tool kit?
Changes in leadership at Battenfeld Gloucester and its former injection molding unit...
...and an additional leader at Milacron's plastics machinery business
Chrysler loads up on SPE Innovation awards
BASF, Dow considering giant TDI plant
New facility in the cards for Ace Mold
E-Weekly News Briefs, Nov. 20-24
Mitsubishi debuts 2300-tonne electric machine
GE extends Extem to the market
BASF, Sabic part ways on PBT
Fuel permeation concerns smoldering
Rotomolding faces challenges from within, without
Rexam announces dramatic changes in machine, mold, materials purchasing
DuPont breaks ground for new Singapore Vespel plant
Idemitsu restarts SPS resin production
Britain sees further drop in number of injection molders
e-weekly News Briefs, Nov. 6-10
Chinese PP demand outstrips domestic supply
Thermoset winners named by SPE
Polyolefin inventories plummet amid price drops
GE, coming to a town near you
e-Weekly News Briefs, Nov. 13-17
Wal-Mart details packaging report card, makes sustainability Pack Expo buzz
Clariant China Pigments JV on stream
PolyOne purchases Hong Kong vinyls compounder
Bioresins in full bloom
Kuka plans further North American expansion
Eastman says sky's the limit for ParaStar PET
AMBA Fall Conference management driven
E-weekly News Briefs, Oct. 30-Nov. 3
Employee retention, cool the flame before it explodes!
Teaming up haptics with optics is no touch-and-go situation
Editorial: Upgrade with the best, or fail the profitability test
Teams
Industry News & Analysis
Performance, form and function demands spur ETP adoption
New dawn for plastics/composites
Are major bottle blowmolders turning a corner?
How (not) to fail with new plastics: learning from past pitfalls
A good salary is not enough
New closure molding unit from Ferromatik Milacron
TESTING EQUIPMENT: Deflection temperature under load available from new tester
IQMS publishes intercompany transaction module for EnterpriseIQ
Thermoset inserts best brass and stainless
Gravimetric blenders process multiple materials
Cast PP line helps processors enter new markets at lower cost
Processing Down Under, succeeding globally (ASP Plastics)
Stones in path not tripping IML’s rapid pace
Customers demand more speed, quality in package decoration
The sky’s the limit with latest PU
With restructuring nearly complete, Milacron looks ahead
APC requests roadmap to drive plastic use in automotive
Sheet for seats eases processor's efforts
New technology aims at saving processing costs
Heading east, BMS sets its sights on the Middle Kingdom
Personal care, auto markets bright spots in post-coup Thailand
Davis-Standard sold to management, investor group
Fakuma exhibitors favor Friedrichshafen
Plastics futures prices expected to bounce back to physical levels
Bayer MaterialScience to acquire Taiwan’s Ure-Tech Group
EuPC applauds EU duties on plastics bag imports
BASF plans new measures for acquisitions in U.S.
E-weekly News Briefs, October 23-27
Pacific Northwest chapter of SPI’s Western Region disbands
SMS plus a new boss, minus Battenfeld injection, equals busy Fakuma
Solvay reorganizes Advanced Polymers unit, adds PEEK to portfolio
New TPOs look beyond instrument panels, fascia
Arburg goes for growth in sales and machine size
E-weekly News briefs Oct. 16-20
Business opportunities abound for value-added rotomolders
Fraunhofer Institute debuts new packaging developments
Hyundai paves path for growth through India, China
U.S. chemical plants new front in "War on Terror"
Always less packaging for Wal-Mart, always
e-Weekly News Briefs, October 9-13
Mitsubishi to exit biaxial film line business
Chinese demand for BOPP remains despite apparent over-capacity
Elopak makes overture for SIG
RTP adds thin films capability to its sheet division
E-weekly News Briefs, October 2-6
Shortage? What shortage?
Technology tackles material and energy costs in film extrusion
Processors and OEMs push back, increasing consumer-goods prices
Push your exceptionality, not your luck
Make Every Pellet Count: Taking the labor out
Part 6: Reducing energy costs: focus on compressed air
Graham Packaging’s stand proving grand for Alpla?
TPEs progress in softness, bondability
Business ownership as wealth generating machine: How big is your target?
Branding: Your Key to Success
Concrete developments in the business software world
Turnkey irrigation pipe line developed for high output
WELDING: X marks the spot with this integrated unit
WELDING: Pouch sealer relies on ultrasonics
WELDING: Precision joining made easy with this heat staker
Intelligent Global Pooling Systems, Orlando, FL
Technology tackles material and energy costs in film extrusion
Recognizing the science of process control
GE produces virgin PBT from recycled PET
Plastics’ designs on dairy
Engel seeing double-digit growth; chasing double-digit market share, too
Sheet for seats eases processor’s efforts
Lovely lips, intriguing case
One year later, Cloeren looks back on Rita
Raising plastics’ positive profile, one issue at a time
Fill 'er up
Will PE100 fly north of the Rio Grande?
Closed mold process opens market for Comfort Line
E-Weekly News Briefs, September 25 - 29
APC maps plastics path in automotive
Lear lowers sights
ExxonMobil builds PO, TPE compounding site in Louisiana
New closure molding machine from Ferromatik Milacron
Engel's China plant approaches start-up
Ticona lacks raw material for European UHMWPE plant
E-Weekly News Briefs, September 18 - 22
Borealis commits to Europe; Borouge invests in Mid East
Nova's Styrenix business on the block?
GE sells off Advanced Materials-plastics next?
Composites set roadmap to greater auto penetration
E-Weekly News Briefs, September 11 - 15
Natural gas relief in sight?
Feedstock costs could hamper nylon demand
Packaging sector brings margins back to mid-2005 levels…
...while RFID/smart labels grow
Essel Propack expands into flexible packaging
E-Weekly News Briefs, September 4 - 8
At Engel, processors angling for Dolphin machines
Bayer MaterialScience bullish on PUR in Asia
Dow pulls plug on LDPE plant
Wittmann nabs moldmaker to increase packaging market presence
Pro-environment programs prove smart economics
The final word on NPE
North American plastics: Fall strength continues
The choice is yours
Reducing energy costs: Focus on extrusion blowmolding
Faurecia, others embroiled in bribery scandal
Lanxess sees a colorful difference with its styrenics businesses
Flatscreens display domination
Old answers to new questions: dodging the obstacles of plastics innovation
DeDuster saves space, has big appetite
Infrared dryer is a PET project with this company
Lab line permits testing, short-run production
Dual handling equipment
DPO Plastik, Dzerzhinsk, Russia
Size reduction focus on efficiency, flexibility
Building the team, Shanghai style
Processors need to change with the times
Anniversary marks decade of technology know-how
E-Weekly News Briefs, August 28 - September 1
Polymer melts to form fireproof ceramic
Nypro announces second closure in as many weeks
Rexam ramps up plastics packaging
Silver-based biocides looking golden
Toyota downshifts product development
Gaz de France puts faith in plastics pipes
E-Weekly News Briefs, August 21 - 25
Plastics M&A pace slows in second quarter
China, India, and other developing markets define PET growth
Nypro exits El Paso for Juarez
Ford accelerates Way Forward…
...as automotive suppliers reach fork in the road
Win an extruder during the K show
E-Weekly News Briefs, August 14 - 18
Captive captures Grafco
Seiko's offshore work coming back to North America
Middle East plastics production may be headed for slowdown
U.S. moldbuilders buoyant on business, tentative on offshoring
EPS processing returning-a bit-to Germany
Dow takes over China PS JV ownership...
...and invests in epoxy in China
E-Weekly News Briefs, August 7 - 11
Milacron stock down but outlook remains up
UK processing threatened by lack of trained personnel
Demand for plastics pipes increasing
Electriplast plugs in
E-Weekly News Briefs, July 31 - August 4
Faurecia, Lear, others embroiled in bribery scandal
Planning for 'ladies in waiting'
Repsol investing big in polyolefins
Huge merger in works in glass fiber, composites industry
GE goes from bottles to bumpers...
...and PTP goes from bottles to bottles
Reducing energy costs: focus on extrusion
Hot markets for fall, winter, and beyond
Lessons from a great steak
Echoes of NPE
Make every pellet count: Electric or hydraulic? An energetic debate
Berry Plastics changing hands again
Processors target additives for value-added applications
Toy industry's essential building block: outsourcing
Software helping processor stay on schedule
More output, high flexibility offered
Small-footprint extruder
Servomotors provide extended service life
Redesigned compressed-air dryer
Bapak Ltd., Nassau, Bahamas
Building a better barrier
Pellet quality analysis goes online
Offshoring for the little guy
E-Weekly News Briefs, July 24 - 28
Miniaturized, molded fuel cells take on lithium-ion batteries
With Budd, composites leader tweaks its composition
Polimoon adds to European packaging/automotive powerhouse
Bioplastics study points to a fast-growing future
Krauss-Maffei continues expansion of its RIM assets
E-Weekly News Briefs, July 17 - 21
New boss in store for MPM Group
Processor acquires pipe technology from Solvay
Bioplastics developer plans IPO
e-Weekly News Briefs July 16-20
E-Weekly News Briefs, July 10 - 14
Basell, Hyundai augment auto-compound alliance
Mazda consortium develops high-strength heat-resistant bioplastic
Global expansion for Wentworth Blow Mold Group
U.S. engineering graduate gap inflated
E-Weekly News Briefs, July 3 - 7
NPE wheelings and dealings
Berry Plastics changes hands
Move over APET, OPP ups the competition
Dow debuts olefin elastomers, signs OBC deal with Mitsui
Bayer buys in to electroluminescent film start-up
Lanxess continues styrenics restructuring
RTP augments LFRT business
Sharing the gain can raise bottom line
Processors set increasing demands on compounds
Midyear update: 2006 looks good, but 2007 is very uncertain
Processors' profits melting away?
Part 3: Reducing energy costs- Focus on injection molding
Massive purchase links North American PVC supply, processing
Medical, automotive, construction drive innovation in PC
Convenience not an asset? Paper makes case for less packaging
Sold the shop, remained the boss
Force majeure: minimizing your risk
Education makes for skilled labor
All-electric ISMB garners cosmetic package interest
Unit aims to keep processing cool
Software shortens development time, increases productivity
New film, profile extrusion lines tackle high assembly cost issues
Entek Manufacturing, Lebanon, Oregon
Memo to moldmakers: Change means opportunity
Processors set increasing demands on compounds
High CARB diet for fuel tanks
Productivity rose in 13 of 15 economies in 2004
LME hopes plastics futures will see more healthy future
Power to the people prompts new cable ideas
Holographic data storage no mirage
Dutch processor concocts formula for winning
Product design competition gets bigger and better
E-Weekly News Briefs, June 26 - 30
NPE 2006 attendance exceeds 2003
SPI announces series of initiatives
Chicago the focus for Ohio's polymer industry
Demag presents united front in Chicago
Spirex notches large order, deal at NPE
K plans new hall, refurbishments
Wittmann augments global auxiliaries presence
E-Weekly News Briefs, June 19 - 23
Davis-Standard promises on time, every time
Chicago and NPE focus of global plastics industry
Why are you going to NPE?
Matrix preps for growth in medical device market
Alcoa brings new aluminum tool material to Chicago
Chinese delegation stays on after NPE for plant visits
Nypro plans $25-million investment in HQ
With one eye on M.E., Dow Europe launches 20 new, revamped PPs
E-Weekly News Briefs, June 12 - 16
Massive purchase links North American PVC supply, processing
End-of-life rules breathe life into electronics recycling
Hy-tech opens turnkey site for IML
BRG acquires plastics consultancy
Equipment makers merge to form new kid on the block
E-Weekly News Briefs, June 5 - 9
GE plans China PC partnership
WPCs build European market
Another Mexican expansion for UPG
Moll moves west
Dollars & sense: spurring future innovation
Part 2: Reducing energy costs: Changing the rules
Advice for the energy weary
Your changes are their challenge
E-Weekly News Briefs, May 29 - June 2
New ownership for MPM
Most NA auto suppliers in good financial shape
All electrics charge up North American market
Packaging machinery to grow in U.S.
NPE 2006 Preview: New technology at the Chicago show? Count on it.
Design Focus: Computer modeling and how it helps drive material selection
Make Every Pellet Count: Creating the perfectly turbulent flow
ExxonMobil now marketing own compounds
Release additive helps molder hit jackpot
Japan takes passing lane in automotive
HP shines risk tool on plastics
Getting at the whole story
New extruder range promises high output
Multichannel cable simplifies molds
Nozzle, gating systems reduce energy use, workload
Bag-making flexibility
Higher speed helps revolutionize output
Stretch blowmolding with all-electric actuation
Heatstaker makes fast work of connecting
Gravimetric blenders boast high precision
Individual, three-material drying
Portable chiller doubles up on pumps
Temp control to one-tenth a degree
General Industrial Controls, Pune, India
Units oriented toward material savings
Automotive continues to loom large
Hydraulic innovations as Taiwanese IM makers mull electric options
Importing to China is so passé
Caviar and chopsticks mingle on the Volga
Koplas highlights Korean all-electric initiative
Breakers lose their punch to PUR
E-Weekly News Briefs, May 22 - 26
Chinaplas visitor record stands...until next year's show?
Engel shows strength in numbers and all-electric initiatives
Machines back for Milacron at NPE 2006
New gem enters rough injection machinery world
Haitian not satisfied with China alone
E-Weekly News Briefs, May 15 - 19
Overall U.S. plastic equipment shipments, sales up in 2005
German plastics producers see record resin output
SPE continues strides
Wittmann expands the world over
Novatec changes hands
Mexican auto-parts industry accelerates
E-Weekly News Briefs, May 8 - 12
ExxonMobil exits Mytec, markets own compounds
Plastic Omnium acquires Inoplast, works with Webasto
Krauss-Maffei opens plant, record orders book for visitors
New owners, opportunities for compounder Pomini
E-Weekly News Briefs, May 1 - 5
At Chinaplas, more all-electrics plug in
China needs, and will receive, more plastics capacity
Erie leaving Massachusetts, but settles into Hungary
Offering new life to older machines
Synventive shifts all European manufacturing to Germany
BASF acquires some SAN business from Lanxess
Conair sells pelletizer line to Reduction Engineering
Perfect knowledge for a "perfect market"
NPE 2006 preview: New technology at the Chicago show? Count on it.
The move toward consumer-driven healthcare
Passion and that four-letter word: w-o-r-k
Reducing energy costs: The first steps (Part 1 of 6 in a series)
Berry ripe for either IPO or sale?
Filter combines robust soft-touch grip with design
Cost squeeze puts demands on processing, polymers
The perfect supply storm
Low resin costs will continue to draw
High-output line targets CPP film
Complete production line rolls out PET cast film
Software provides quality, production information in one
Plastics parts get the right spray job
IMS introduces two new temperature control modules
Stacked turret winder targets stretch films
Dual turret winder takes on big jobs
System gets to grips with pipe, profiles
Safe, cost-saving solution joins PE pressure pipes
NKE Inc., Hebron, KY
Welding bonds processors to new technology
Chinese wage gap narrows
PE deficit stymies Russia's pipe market
Customer satisfaction is key to this processor
E-Weekly News Briefs, April 24 - 28
Malaysian PBT plant inaugurated
Processors find help in plastics bone yard
Stopol to drop gavel on webcast
Rhodia adds PA production in China
Prospects for global manufacturing growth
Safety, energy conservation drive automotive advances
Wittmann adds dryer production in China
E-Weekly News Briefs, April 17 - 21
Benchmark guide cites Canada, Singapore as winners for business
Lear open to interiors business sale
Legal truce opens way for new moldmaking technology
European recyclers unhappy with continent's plastics suppliers
SPI asks processors to open up their books
Moldflow creates online design forum
Merquinsa reintroduces itself to North America
E-Weekly News Briefs, April 10 - 14
Interiors out at Delphi
Berry ripe for IPO, sale?
Dow, Rompetrol pen PE deal
Buss, kneader maker, is independent again
E-Weekly News Briefs, April 4 - 7
Ross establishes European stronghold with Lear's trim business; IPs and door trim "commodity items"
Change only constant in extruded PP films' market
Lear signs on with Tachi for seating ventures, entrée to Japanese OEMs
Boxmore on its own; MBO for Chesapeake's Irish holdings
RFID-enabled plastics pallets take on global shipping market…
...while these firms try their hand with a pallet replacement…
...and NextLife expands its TuffStack pallet line
You went global...Now what?
25 Notable Processors
Looking for opportunities in India
Heeding Sun Zhu
Design focus: Thinner thin-wall
Make every pellet count
Green grows ever more popular
Material takes bumps out of cycle carriers
Market's dynamics play to plastics' strengths
Plastics industry stands tall in U.S. mergers and acquisitions
Global outlook, and warnings, are crux of message
Golden machines won't cost a fortune
Screws and barrels stand up to abrasive materials
Lab line allows perfect scale-up operations
Color inspection made easy with online control
Metalizing system provides high covering reliability
Flapless systems permit outstanding roll exactitude
Get a grip on this development
Temperature controls for material rheology
Top-of-the-line unit reduces waste to usable recyclate
25 Notable Processors
Plasvale; Gaspar, Santa Catarina, Brazil.
GIT derivative delivers precise channels
Downstream units keep up with the flow
Innovation for sale, and muscle for rent
The Indian Era beckons
Extrusion, molding novelties revealed during Plast
Customs sting operation hauls in the goods
E-Weekly News Briefs, March 27 - 31
Carteaux reflects on year that was, NPE to come
Cargill to offer earth-friendly foams from biobased polyols
BASF boosts capacity to meet upped demand
Torque motors shave costs to benefit processors
Cristal grabs TiO2 business as Lyondell off-loads
E-Weekly News Briefs, March 20 - 24
Nanotubes go mainstream
Eastern Europe up, China down for Europe's machine makers
UPG inaugurates Mexican expansion
Energy, labor and the Big Squeeze
Xaloy buys up Dynisco Extrusion
E-Weekly News Briefs, March 13 - 17
SPI cries foul over FDA food-contact funding
Clinton gets the vote for new bioplastics plant
Krauss-Maffei working with RocTool on LFI
European chemical association slams power-deregulation efforts
And Dana makes four...
Bayer still betting on PC growth in China
Ford sees green in green strategy
E-Weekly News Briefs, March 6 - 10
Ball maintains buying spree, targets Alcan assets
Figures improve for German processors
SPE environmental conference continues growth
E-Weekly News Briefs, February 27 - March 3
Plast show takes a dip
Milacron: sales up, consolidation pending
Bayer MaterialScience talks business, NPE
Last in the lifeboat
The MPW50: Flying high and laid low
Finding a team to work with
Home, sweet home
Perlos shutting Ft. Worth facility
PA, PPAs push out metals in vehicles
Building and construction
Exporting from U.S. made easy
Screenless granulator operates beside the press
Optical sorter puts resin under magnifying glass
Easy part fastening offered in heatstaker
Spin welding system revolves around accurate control
Graphic control helps techs visualize loading stations
Wireless ERP
Feeder's positive material shutoff simplifies material changes
TCU features microprocessor control
Flexible conveyor system has dual- or single-track formats
Gantry eases postmold operations
Robotic unit replaces postmolding CNC operations
Online plastics article treasure trove
The MPW50: Flying high and laid low
Hossein Mozafari, Varid Medical Production Group
Bottle blowers scale down
Q&A With Israel Hernandez
No slowing Chinaplas' growth
IML labels exhibit stick-to-it-iveness
IKV Colloquium unveils new ways for processors to profit
Flexible bladder supplants water tanks
In Asia, TPE demand adheres to plan
Good news and bad for U.S. plastics processors
E-Weekly News Briefs, February 20 - 24
E-Weekly News Briefs, February 20 - 24 Part 2
Sandretto's difficulties difficult to describe
Mir today--and tomorrow too, apparently
Plast show moved to new expo center
Milacron says WPC demand will help rebuild its global extrusion presence
GE suspends PC JV in China
E-Weekly News Briefs, February 13 - 17
Plastikon opens new Chinese facility
High-temperature plastics make headway under-the-hood
HK Plastics moves to new facility
Tech Group lands inhaler deal
E-Weekly News Briefs, February 6 - 10
Schröder departs Battenfeld
Tetra Pak makes materials change for liquids packaging
GW Plastics makes buy in China
Jones resigns from Nypro
E-Weekly News Briefs, January 30 - February 3
Visteon lays out roadmap away from Ford towards Asia
Chinese automotive plastics demand rises
SPI reports paint clearer picture of U.S. plastics industry
It's time to get out in front
High-wage processors can still compete internationally
Design Focus: Going the way of water
No time to rest: taking advantage of Spain's growing market
If you see a gold rush, start molding shovels
Will demand be there when Iranian plastic arrives?
TPEs add functions to gain markets
Might want to hang on to those moving boxes
Programs give you shelter in offshore operations
Futures finding steadier ground
Maachi gears up for gearless drives
Cooperation results in improved product
HDPE pipe innovations highlight Plast presentation
Fast, reliable output marks cast line for pallet stretch
PP cement bags outlast competitive models
Costs cut by eliminating PET drying need
Large production requirements need heavy-duty machinery
Clear choice in loaders
Metalizing system provides high covering reliability
Thermal imaging provides visual heat profile
Plastics parts get the right spray job
Blender feeds up to six components
Software provides quality, production information
Margins taking a bath? Check that dryer
John Nix with Associated Thermoforming Inc.
Hot new technology for cooling injection molds
Robots take center stage
Starch coating gives grease the skid
Printed electronics could be next disruptive technology
Caution reigns at Iran Plast show
E-Weekly News Briefs, January 23 - 27
Chinaplas gears up for record-setting event
Yuan's value continues to create controversy
Electroactive polymers charging up
Where's the beef? Barrier films boosted by prepared meats
E-Weekly News Briefs, January 16 - 20
Faurecia gives good news for North America's automotive arena
Start packing for Plast 2006...
Sekisui planting PS/PE foam plant in TN
...and get visas now for June's NPE
...and India hangs automotive export shingle
Exports, aftermarket components drive automotive in China...
E-Weekly News Briefs, January 9 - 13
Names in the News: The New Year brings new responsibilities
Polimoon opens purse strings for yet another acquisition
Global demand for plastics processing machinery on the rise
E-Weekly News Briefs, January 2 - 6
Will demand be there when Iranian resin comes to market?
ANWR defeat stings SPI
Basell cites "encouraging" signs, rejoins LME
Crisis!
Market Update: North America stands up for pouches
Diagnosing China's medical device market
Make every pellet count
Economic forecast 2006: What's in store?
Leading suppliers betting big on continuing demand
Automotive applications hold good prospects for nylon growth
For PC, strong upturn expected, particularly in Far East
Polyethylene's advantage remains its versatility
Additives help target value-added applications during high-resin-price environment
Processors entice buyers with new color combinations
Injection molding in 2005
Advanced mold performance with hot runners
A more healthy vinyl industry shows signs of pickup
Styrene-based polymers offer diversity for processors
Cast film extrusion covers wide range of markets
Heat stabilizer market ready for product changes
High volume, increased torque driving compounding markets
Fiber composites, large pipes drive extrusion sector
Injection blow continues to gather speed
New applications and M&A continue to highlight blowmolders' world
Material pricing, new research bode well for thermoforming
No slowing the speeds of stretch blow machinery
Rotational molding comes of age
Drying resin for energy and material savings
Niche process finds new applications
Staying on top of the grind
Tight welding adds value to applications
Taking time for temperature control
Material on the move
M&A surge alters supplier landscape
The right testing equipment ensures maintenance of quality standards
High clarity is key in acrylic applications
Fluoropolymers shine in construction, IT, autos
New TPE technologies create value in a shifting global market
Blown film extrusion's future balloons
Polyurethane is the material of choice for breakthrough applications
Keeping oxidation at bay
Alternatives provide flexibility of much-maligned additive
Antistatic additives provide dust busters, safety, and ease in handling
Mono- and biaxial film: Technologies and markets
A different angle on part removal
Shedding light on the intricacies of light stabilizers
Pelletizing: Established solutions and challenging trends
Skilled labor is hard to find in U.S.
Versatile PP grades add value, cut costs
North America stands up for pouches
Made in China label puts products in the hot seat
Curse of the reverse auction
High-volume stretch blowmolding solution
Method adorns applications to improve outward looks
Look Mom, no keys! Control system is easy to operate
Multi-talented slot die increases productivity
Thin PET film, sheet gets the polish
Extrusion cutter offers high quality assurance
Line allows cost effective vinyl film production
Unit allows more film by a stretch
Tool helps achieve zero defect part production
Special strand pelletizer is an accurate cut-up
Quick, accurate system is easy to use
Temperature controlled testing systems provide sunny results
Linear motor makes winding a breeze
Fully automatic dual coiler facilitates installation jobs
Improvements made to process monitoring software
Modular hot runner system
Low-cost system helps pressurized water hold the heat
Clinton, MA with Gordon Lankton
Despite costs, no cooling in hot runner market
Study offers guidelines to improve the quality of post-consumer recyclate
Currency woes don't stymie Brazilian processors
New demands shaping medical polymer developments
Hola, China!
Masterbatchers send strong warning on job losses
E-Weekly News Briefs, December 26 - 30
Film stars in U.S.
C&A names plastics director, shutters tooling plant
Tyco sells plastics business
E-Weekly News Briefs, December 19 - 23
Solvay acquires Gharda's plastics business
World flame retardants expected to see growth
Bishop takes charge of Demag in North America
E-Weekly News Briefs, December 12 - 16
BASF separates specialties from commodity plastics
Wittmann expands the world over
EPA rules against Lanxess facility
Helmar Franz, former Demag chief, joins Haitian
Radici targets growing ETP demand with Indian nylon JV
Iran Plast 2005 exhibits current growth, sows future concerns
E-Weekly News Briefs, December 5 - 9
Lear ordered to keep supplying Diamler Chrysler
Natural gas prices burn U.S. manufacturers
India undercuts Chinese wages
European light-vehicle production drives eastward
A tale of two markets: What kind of times will it be for plastics?
Good times or bad, material specifiers keep choosing plastics
The end of the rainbow
A changing of the guard
Design focus: Many nano designs are still waiting in the wings
What will become of Delphi?
Scratch protection keeps vehicles in tip-top shape
Good times or bad, material specifiers keep choosing plastics
R&D tax credits provide competitive edge
JSW unveils array of processing advances
Hybrid cuts cycle time and energy costs
Compact all-electric demonstrates precision
Twin-shot unit employs high-speed mold rotation system
Linear motor boosts step response
Vertical unit features three-tiebar setup
Nitta, Japan with Masanori Naritomi
Price hikes imperil plastics' advantage, even as potential applications increase
IPF hums to the tune of electrics, but hydraulics exert pressure, too
Personnel and product announcements punctuate Fakuma show
A job shop goes lean
Fighting back against fakes shows signs of success
E-Weekly News Briefs, November 28 - December 2
U.S. recycling reinvigorated
Skilled labor is hard to find
Euromap names new leader
Moll draws Mexican president to plant opening
E-Weekly News Briefs, November 21 - 25
Hurricanes' wakes wreak havoc on U.S. polymer pricing
Nanotubes production commercialized
Chinese building and construction boom ebbs...kind of
E-Weekly News Briefs, November 14 - 18
Maytag Carolina facility all washed up
Commission calls out China
Rexam adds Precise to plastics portfolio
SMS to close German injection molding machine site
E-Weekly News Briefs, November 7 - 11
Fakuma shines, Interplas fades
North American moldmaking carves out recovery
Wood and decking builds market
Excess PS, EPS
E-Weekly News Briefs, October 31 - November 4
PE bag industry in China remains fragmented
Antioxidant growth continues despite high feedstock costs
TPEs slated for growth in China
Notables: 8 Notable predictions
Poland: A glass half-full
Plan long-term for transport costs
Small shops bear higher costs in U.S…
Nylon car headrests give heads a rest during crashes
Rival next-generation DVD formats hit market
Knowing your rights
The work force, globalized
Swiss closure specialist making big move into processing ranks
400-ton press targets big blowmoldings
Rotomolding renaissance
System helps injection molders keep their cool
Software tracks materials, helps with forecasting
Measurement of nanoclay exfoliation
Building a better wood-composite extruder
Blender meters difficult materials
SMC's newest parts feeding equipment
Boy adds optional sprue sorter
Shredder pairs high-tech cutters and drive
Glenwood Springs, CO with David Cramer
Developments in decoration give products the standout effect
Processor concocts recipe to take on low-wage competition
Steel's last stand?
Frankfurt's auto show-for plastics, it's all about integration
Composites conference notes metals' mettle, plastics' potential
Plans, prospects, and products
E-Weekly News Briefs, October 24 - 28
The profit squeeze for U.S. manufacturers
Digital drives growth in home electronics
Reading plastic's palm
Europe seeing changes in wire/cable industry
E-Weekly News Briefs, October 17 - 21
R&D ROI-is there one?
Consumers set to pay more for plastics articles
Grass is greener on the plastics side
Belgian processing sector on the move
E-Weekly News Briefs, October 10 - 14
PET recycling reaches record rate
Smallest shops bear biggest regulatory burden
E-Weekly News Briefs, October 3 - 7
Post-hurricane oil and gas outlook
European processors hit unevenly by price jumps
Health of chemical industry buffets European foam market
Dealing with WEEE
Thinking big in thermoforming
Engaging the future
Design Focus: What process with this part?
Nagging concerns
A message from the president
After Katrina, uncertainty
Electroplatable ABS available worldwide
Still potential aplenty in underhood applications
Manufacturing strategies: easing supply chain pain
Seller beware: Dos and don'ts
Offshore training: prerequisite for success
Stacked turret winder targets stretch films
High transparency offered in special film displays
Unit helps improve performance, saves processors resin costs
Technology squeezes extra output out of existing extruders
All-electric speed burner
Simple, accurate additive feeder
Corrugator produces less waste material
Blender series offers more component potential
Cutter kit snips sprues in a snap
Microwelding showing increased demand
High-tech wall-thickness gauge device eases work
Operator easy-handling chamber speeds tests
Top-quality, low-haze film processed on blown line
Loveland, CO with Marcia Sampson
It's a small world after all
World of market chances offered in a community of 25 countries
Will the South rise again?
Saudi compounder recovers, looks to grow
Facing the trade winds
A feast for the molder's eyes: Options abound at Fakuma
E-Weekly News Briefs, September 26 - 30
China leads global ETP imports
Report focuses on IT counterfeiting
Turkish processors seeing high shortage of random copolymer polypropylene grades
E-Weekly News Briefs, September 19 - 23
Gulf Coast petrochemicals regroup
U.S. plastics and rubber capital spending on the rise
Polyester pushing resin and fiber sales
E-Weekly News Briefs, September 12 - 16
High-temperature-resistant plastics take on motors, gears
Western Europe, China depress EUROMAP outlook
What recovery?
E-Weekly News Briefs, September 5 - 9
Katrina spins U.S. petrochemicals into disarray
Russia presents plastics opportunity
Latin American plastics pipe set to show growth
Notables: 10 Waves of the future
The proof is in the basket
Be careful what you wish for
E-Weekly News Briefs, August 29 - Sept. 2
Asian vehicles to accelerate to 21 million by 2011
Help us help you
Finally, they know my name
Performance improvement possible by switching to chlorinated PE
Lawn and garden is, uh, a growing marketplace
How high will it go?
Togetherness pays dividends
Success can be so complex
PUR processors save tooling costs, process tougher materials
Electric high-speed packaging
Milacron kicks off large machine plan for China
Cutting thermoform tool change times
Erbach, Germany with Stephan Koziol
Auxiliaries matter: Reducing costs means re-thinking basic assumptions
TPU nanocomposites combine flexibility, tensile strength
Plastic Omnium in Slovakia: Talk quality, not labor cost
Argentine plastics industry heads hopefully down rocky road to recovery
Shifting sands
Customer pressure continues to prompt eastbound shuffle
Keeping an open mind to new closure design
E-Weekly News Briefs, August 22 - 26
Despite some EU slowdowns profile sales continue strong
Styrenics output reduction could affect availability, customer price
RECIPE offers formula for plastics processors
SPI request Chinese report card
E-Weekly News Briefs, August 15 - 19
U.S. loses equipment momentum in 2005
Iran claims it is ready to help repair Iraq's petrochemical sector
North American resin sales/production remains flat
E-Weekly News Briefs, August 8 - 12
Cafta has processors feeling left out
R&D in decline?
Additives to add business
E-Weekly News Briefs, August 1 - 5
Cracks in the Great Wall?
Resin a la carte
EU-funded research investigates new antimicrobial possibilities
Study deduces REACH remains unreachable
Can you hear me now? Mobile phones to top 1 billion by 2009
Demag and Haitian joint venture: discussions ongoing
Trouble brewing: Coping with bankruptcy, customers, cash flow
Biopolymers: Has their time come?
Lots of demand, limited supply
Design focus: Industrial design, aesthetics produce easier-sell products
Demag-Haitian JV: Discussions ongoing
Blowmolded polypropylene takes aim at PET market
Demand, predicted growth in CEE far outpace Western Europe
What a difference a year makes
Managing your most valuable assets
Buying savvy needs improving
Sequential gating leads to improved flexibility
Extruders use air to keep their cool
Plastics carrier-bag machines ease work
Better design flexibility on flat parts
Sensors stay in mold inserts
Monterey, CA with Fred Slautterback
Toolmaker enters consulting arena; Update--IML for thermoforming
Overmolding accelerates into automotive
Chinaplas pitches tent in Guangzhou
Poland’s self-portrait: A processor’s utopia
China's all the rage, but Mexico still makes sense
Convenience is critical to today’s eating public
E-Weekly News Briefs, July 25 - 29
Rapid growth for rapid prototyping
Maquiladora business heating up again
No letup in demand for carbon black
E-Weekly News Briefs, July 18 - 22
Second supplier could raise height of PEEK market
U.S. resins sales, production sluggish
Shrink-label market seeing steep growth
E-Weekly News Briefs, July 11 - 15
Fed-up auto suppliers shift resources to the foreign domestics
Composites take off in new Dreamliner
Fluoropolymers to flourish
E-Weekly News Briefs, July 4 - 8
Business groups pick sides on CAFTA
SPI works the Hill, White House
Husky accelerates automotive efforts
VDMA looks back on good 2004, worries about present situation
The MPW 50
China's evolving labor market
Customer is king
M&A action continues apace
PC suppliers target medical market with new grades
Big is still big, wi-fi is still cool, and convergence is real
What’s driving M&A these days?
Product purity plays key role in processing
High accuracy offered in drop test measurement
Calibration unit provides a hush for new EU regulations
System insures pellet shape quality, low fines
Plastics refinement means concentrating on quality
Giving thermoformers & extruders the controls
Rotary machine takes on reciprocating screw, shuttle units
Packaging costs minimized with reel-feed FFS unit
Device is master of profile, shapes exactness
Nussbach, Austria with josef Haidlmair
Shrink films aren't just commodities anymore
Much ado about information storage media
Processor brings BOPS to Belarus
Beyond 3-C
Gas woes acknowledged
Self-reliance essential for Middle Eastern moldmaker’s survival
Rio Polímeros to attract $400 million in investments
E-Weekly News Briefs, June 27 - July 1
German industry makes efforts to boost R&D
Window and door profiles predicted to continue downward slide this year
Color-matching service enters commercialization
E-Weekly News Briefs, June 20 - 24
Phthalate report bad news for phthalates, but not necessarily for plastics
Maillefer, Conenor team up in extruding wood-plastics area
VW chooses Dow Automotive's LESA technology for hybrid parts
E-Weekly News Briefs, June 13 - 17
New disc era dawns
Future of North American thermoforming takes shape
Degradable PE shopping bags a real threat to environment?
Building new markets for wood composites
E-Weekly News Briefs, June 6 - 10
U.S. manufacturers' dollars go a long way to invest
Manufacturing slows after barely hitting the gas
Burned by natural gas prices? Shocked by your utility bill?
E-Weekly News Briefs, May 30 - June 3
Reifenhäuser faces tough times as equipment investments slacken
SPI energizes membership on bill
Strategic buyers maintain clout in plastics M&A market
Thermoplastic sheet remains strong performer in Europe
Facing business transition head on
Health Care
The Indian option
Do you know your competition?
Design Focus: CAD data: Format-to-format getting better
Engel set for big move with MacPAC packaging machine range
Costs drop, properties gain with metal-reinforced TPV
Vinyl still indispensable for disposable devices
A 21st-century resin purchasing strategy
Is your purchasing department robbing value as it cuts costs?
Big Brother is financing you
A mid-sized champion of production and development
Arburg's Eco a bargain for the right projects
Consistent color measurement for less
Improve quoting for moldmaking work
Turn PCs into user interfaces
Monitoring made easy
SBM takes productivity higher
Silver Line and Vinyl Visions sign up for CDS dual lines
Web winder ensures shop-floor operator safety
Integrated control can be retrofitted to certain systems
Check that impact
Mumbai, India with Essel Propack
Changing customer demands send compounders scrambling
Compounding concentrates help trim LFT costs
Web-exlusive additon to As I See It: ESOP Q&A
Brasilplast 2005 was a blast
ASEAN makes its mark in the shadow of a giant
The Middle East: No end to the surge in sight
Is China not all that it’s cracked up to be?
Used equipment gives life for startup founders
Resealable rage zips higher as patent issues unlock
In a hard-hit region, the education community lends a hand
Big plans, parts, and machines at Better Bath
Irrational optimism?
Trying to make sense of materials
Full-body shrink-sleeve demand just keeps growing
E-Weekly News Briefs, May 23 - 27
Mid East petrochemicals caught in the middle of WTO battle
Automotive survey says
Polyolefin production, consumption expand in Latin America
Bioplastics grow at recent Interpack
The best and the rest in offshore opportunities
C&A's freefall
Healthy prognosis
Where has all the polystyrene gone?
Growth belies concerns for plastics packaging
New rapid prototyping study released
Chinese clout in PE films grows
E-Weekly News Briefs, May 16 - 20
Study shows plastics have upper hand over traditional materials
E-Weekly News Briefs May, 2-6
E-Weekly News Briefs May, 9-13
The supply chain wars
Turkey's resin demand outstrips domestic capacity
Zipper-packaging patent resolution clears path for renewed growth
Make marketing a game changer
Budgeting for the unknown: Part 2
All the news that's fit to print
Machine makers talk results
Plastics from citrus
Personal care: A fast global market
Trouble steering? Check your alignment
Calibration unit provides a hush for new EU regulations
Join together all your products on a single line
Device confirms profile, shapes exactitude
Greater color-testing accuracy
10 materials we love
Coon Rapids, Minnesota with Maureen Steinwall
Amid high resin prices, additives increasingly add value
Processors of food packaging are in for some bureaucratic surprises
Regulatory showdown?
Marketing Best Feature: Strategic Marketing Pays Big Dividends for US Farathane
Future notable resins may be few and far between
PLM & CAD
Chinaplas gets bigger and better
Brazilian plastics exports looking up
Automakers' sustainable plastics use not a pretty picture
Processors weigh the promise of futures trading
Optimism reigns in the world of automotive design
In the line of fire
Thwarting counterfeiting takes special processing savvy
Budgeting for the unknown
Where are all the new materials?
New Products Through Precision Die Cutting - ODC Shares Its Story
Big merger in the pipeline
E-Update News Briefs
Design Focus: The name of this game is bond - good bond
HPM looks for small-press presence
Degussa rapidly adding arrows to its specialty plastics quiver
Fuel cells slated to energize plastics demand
Product lifecycle management enhances ERP
But how much is this going to cost?
Battenfeld extends its two-platen range
Die-ring flexibility proves beneficial for good output
Giant-sized unit promotes high throughput, precision
Pipe scales get shock treatment
Device provides maximum protection for sensitive sensors
Dallas, TX with C&F Tooling Inc.
Strong-arming the competition
Double-barreled molding
Happy days in health care
Collapsible crates go west
Moll charges up acquisition hill
Crystal-ball gazers zero in on the right color
Slow wood train coming
Notable processors
Following the money
Are you a Notable?
E-Update News Briefs
Turkish monetary changes could affect sales
Capstock, films vie to protect outdoor products
The (paint) line in the sand
Beyond myths and legends
Feeder provides precision
Pulverizer quick at turning pellets into powder
Compressed air loaders make material conveying simple
Recycling equipment separates functions
Maximum linear output
Weathering tester accommodates large or multiple samples
Laser advances
Washington, DC with Bill Carteaux
Preform options aplenty
P&G now licensing blowmolding simulator
CAFTA: Potential sweet news for U.S. processors
Manufacturing in southern China-no trivial pursuit
California pushes efficiency
The China paradox
Design Focus: Starting off on the right foot
The currency edge
Rolex for you? And something new
German processing figures show demand returning
E-Update News Briefs
Fight over HTP goes public, gets ugly
ETPs at K: Materials and more
Appliances ride housing strength
Uncle Sam asking for less?
Anyone for futures?
When leadership matters: Creating good corporate culture
New angle on loading
Versatile unit provides fast, easy bonding
Screw homogenizes melt
Special mold material targets aggressive polymer processing
Unit looks through film
Preform design augments container performance
Troisdorf, Germany with Five PVC innovators
Injection molding: Sharing knowledge is key to future
Importing with a little help from friends
In medical apps, there's small and then there's small
Chinese toolmakers target high-end export market
A good omen for 2005
No job too complex: multimaterial and multiprocess technology rule the roost
IMD coming on strong
Easing price pressures
Cost-saving refinements highlight extrusion
Speed takes the cake
Customers want more engineering
Mold manufacturing isn't what it used to be
Permanent add-ons
Innovative uses of polymers and additives
Eyeing demanding auto applications
High-end hot runner controls now available at lower prices.
Plant-wide process monitoring
Cost pressures apparent at K 2004
Post-election expectations
Two become one
K plugs in
E-Update News Briefs
Near-euphoria reigned at K--and in the afterglow
Technology uncorked to ease wine-bottle opening
New closure designs help trim system cost
Selling your company wisely
Lands of opportunity
Shredders optimized for plastics
Dust-free parts
Screw geometry change enhances performance
IMD for mobile phones
5 technologies to watch
Larger pipe diameters offer better return for processors
Turkey loses low-wage luster, but gains confidence
Buckeyes bear down for plastics
Are biodegradable materials finally for real?
Alternative to glass shatters reinforced plastics recycling ideas
How P&G buys plastics
NAFTA revisited: Improving outlook for processors
The show that was
Huntsman blames NYMEX for natural gas woes
E-Update News Briefs
RPC Group nabs blowmolder
Copolyester city car putters along Paris byways
What does 2005 have in store?
Computer shipments statistics: What do they mean?
Leaders are mighty important personnel, too
After Enron, holding CEOs' feet to the ISO fire
Ejector and robot move in unison
Leistritz plans to commercialize quick-change extruder in 2005
Small, compact unit saves production space
Edge detector senses new web widths
Portable polishing machine targets small-run production
Units help processors keep their cool
Equipment provides new twist to value-added product production
Extrusion dies program highlights exhibition
Gneuss lowers cost of rotary melt filtration with new system
Simplified extrusion control process
Control system is a 'smarty'
Rheometer provides labs with high flexibility
Optimized controllers
Auckland, New Zealand with Murray Fenton
Not just a little cheaper, faster, or better
Technology discovered at K
ETP base stymies India's growth
A new spin on DVD packaging
Collaboration yields life-saving cones
RFID is here-is it time for you to worry?
Format war pits HD-DVD against Blu-ray disc
Looking at opportunities down under
Steady growth brings little joy
Commodity vs. service
Freeglass drives yet another snazzy part
Cyclics adding capacity, again
E-Update News Briefs
Color them unhappy
Atofina reinforces nylon 11, 12 presence
Machinery sales data: What do they mean?
Don't move the manufacturing before you re-think the design
Direct-drive electrics for high speed
Line of heater bands expanded
Accuracy key to special sensors
Slider, cradle ease online web installation
Digital pressure controls help maintain quality
Chemical, mechanical purging combined
Shredder proves show magnet at K
'Blackbox' for mold data
Robot coating cabin includes pallet change
Liversedge, England with Birkby's Plastics
Extrusion: Inventive die designs raising the bar
Electrifying conductive polymer technology
One EPP processor hates electronics' 'guts'--in a good way
Thermoforming catching on and catching up to injection molding
EPS trays: Learning some clever new tricks
Short circuit
Industry and academia working together
Compounding success
Learn from the best
We have liftoff
K 2004 Special Section and Show Preview
Middle East: Promise or just problems?
Time to start worrying? Not yet...
K has arrived
SPI Extends Deadline for its 63rd Labor Survey On 2004 Wage Rates and Benefits
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International expansion
Amcor PET closures stir customer's ire
Compound kills SARS, possibly other viruses
Furniture: 1950s styles bear the look of the future
Good strategy, good implementation
Putting manufacturing reports to work
Launching a sales process improvement effort
Shaping up for resurgent M&A market
High-end software gets a customized makeover
New-generation multitip nozzle line
Software increases molders' competitiveness
Tight gating, small parts
World's largest multilayer preform system
Heating elements
Nozzle design concept
Hot runner system targets market niches
Articulated capability, linear programming ease
John Hayes and Michael Vaughn are cashing in Ball Corp.'s PET bet
Wheels of commerce: Sagging under the load
Is stretch-blown PP packaging finally for real?
Tooling revolution: Will it pass the test?
Building better bottles
Tough foam offers composite tooling alternative
Joining the global community
Automatica: Integrated automation the next big thing
Bankruptcy battles
Immigration reform a union boon?
Processor's smart idea differentiates commodity product
Taking the world by storm
What rotomolding needs
Materials pricing: Oh, what a tangled web
The problems and promise of the North African market
A mid-year economic perspective
Spare parts, please
Korean Firm Makes Mark on ETP Stage
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No slowdown in packaging M&A action
High-flow POPs designed for polymer modification
Lawn & garden, power tools facing similar challenges
Creating a processor identity
The ABCs of household appliances
Processors pinched by price have to fill the knowledge gap
Auxiliaries meet 'Internet age'
Gates divert materials
Automated injection molding cells
Rotary grinder for films
Slovakia with Alexander Ivan
Electric injection molding: Europeans fall into line
Isolator' promises more precise mold movement
Chinaplas 2004: Birth of the next big show
Bag tariff rattles U.S. import market
Moldmakers in Western Europe turn to innovation to remain competitive
Positive ID for resins of tomorrow
Magnets attract regulatory attention
New materials likely to give rotomolding a boost
High gas content improves microcellular BOPP films
Think global, act local
The auxiliaries you'll see
Processors not limited to the visitors' ranks
Technology Trends: Additives
It may not be exciting, but it is growth
Africa: Look beyond preconceptions
Jump on board
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Extrusion show planned to debut in Frankfurt
GE opens global research center in Germany
Crompton chief says Davis-Standard doesn't fit
PUR shortfall to last through 2006
TPUs bring versatility to footwear makers
Building & construction boom?
The medical market: What to look for and where to find it
LFI adapted to natural fibers
Crosslinking unit saves floor space, helps reduce costs
Extruder modified for foam reclaim
Dewpoint meter features autocalibration
Livonia, MI with Jack Roush
Moving butchers out of stores trims demand for EPS trays
Battered and bruised, SPI and SPE look to regain lost relevance
Melt-to-preform processes could change dynamics of preform supply
Plastics syringes challenge glass market dominance
What it is, is globalization
Plastics help sport soar
Putting the Kunstoff into K
Technology integration
Revisiting opportunities in the New World
Waiting on the other shoe
Strategy, tactics, and obsession
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Toray in $3-billion deal to supply carbon fiber composites to Boeing
Austrians parry with Chinese piracy
Special absorbers permit product differentiation
Telecommunications: Processors gain in race to make up lost time
Market niches, supply chains transform mobile phone industry
New decorating methods enhance product differentiation
Making sense of the trade data that concerns your business
Structural foam takes on large parts
O-I working on compression molded preforms
Keeping tabs on cooling
The Battle of Cincinnati
O-I working on compression molded preforms
Bigger TMs
Multicavity system tracks cavity pressures
3-D flow, x-ray analysis of gas-assist moldings
Nanotechnology will change the world - for the better, one hopes
Global competitiveness: National Assn. of Manufacturers takes a stand
Second-hand for a leg up
Manufacturing in Mexico: Time for a rebound?
Runaway additive prices crunch profits and processors
Steel weighing heavily on minds
Speaking of business operations
Seeing is believing. Have faith in BMW.
Government and regulation Friend, foe, or a little of both?
A recovered Japan poised for solid growth
Defining the recovery: Solid for now
Price vs. cost
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China makes gains in WTO compliance, but still warrants a 'C'
Milacron seeks Chinese fortune...
Melamine foam replacing polyurethane in aircraft seats
Automotive: The future looks bright for plastics/metal composites
LFTs continue to make big waves
Whatever happened to carbon fibers?
Contentious collaboration
Making the most of automotive data
The excitement and power of vision
Largest two-platen Maxima
Lab cast-film line allows easy reconfiguration
Single-screw extruder with production benefits
Plastics market looks tasty to food sorting machine maker
Hybrid Victory
Large press line increases nozzle access
Smaller screw reduces residence time
Hot runner manifold has round shape
Ring pelletizer features new cutter head design
Screenchanger seal's performance guaranteed
Multilayer measurement
Movable controls add to extruder's flexibility
Osaka, Japan with Minoru Adachi
Hot filling prompts high PP blowmolding demand; design leads PET's appeal
Transfer molding reemerges in thermoplastics applications
Wire, cable extrusion growth heads to developing regions
Koplas highlights injection molding advances
Platex showcases solutions for Japan-based production
U.S. PP sales and prices prepare for liftoff
Thermoformers need to sell their process - and invest in CAD
PVC profile extruders push for political acceptance
Composites innovations hit their stride
Brazil exporting to grow after the slowdown
Competitiveness in a dynamically changing world
Running the K-athlon to win
Emerging Markets
Capitalizing on Europe's frontier markets: Options for processors
Will manufacturing growth slow as energy prices jump?
Riding the learning curve
Plastics-metal innovation has promising future
Six always wins in nylons game
Plastics sitting pretty in cosmetics packaging
Knowing when, and how, to cut your losses
Housing and construction markets
High-speed line requires little maintenance
Direct compounding/sheet extrusion lines continue to flourish
Processing versatility in three-roll stack unit
Auger-fed granulator
Curved tunnel gates cut costs, hide gate location
Largest two-platen in its line
Magnetic quick-mold-change systems
Custom hot runners delivered in four weeks
Hands-on training for molder certification
Chiller range
Software diagnoses runner imbalances
Spin welder for big parts
Expandable barrel heater
Breidenstein, Germany with Edmund Oschmann
IT: Processing in the information age
IT: Dial-up help is easy, but processors remain wary
Chinaplas consolidates status as leading mainland show
At Medtec, high-tech molders seek the medical applications cure
The squeeze is on as Taiwanese drive to climb value tree
A smart helping hand for educators
New York's toy story
Free trade agreements and the transformation of global trade
Processors bite the bullet on resin price hikes
With a long-term view, Chen Hsong emphasizes new growth
Compounding extruder market set for major change
Mr. Manager, for whom do you work?
Price-conscious visitors need to plan their K 2004 visit
Mergers & Acquisitions
A fortuitous beginning
ASEAN looking to stage a sustainable comeback
Operations in and out
German processing figures in 2003 astound processors
With days to spare, Milacron secures investors to service debt
Industry News
See how you rank versus the competition
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SMS axes European production of film extrusion equipment
Engel outlines china production plans
Plastics shows in the U.K.: Take your positions
Loranger hits Plasthing from beyond the grave
Gel-based RIM elastomers have novel touch qualities
Notebooks steel for magnesium onslaught
The embrace of ERP bears fruit
Custom manufacturer turns OEM
Culture clash? Managing diversity on the plant floor
Colorant feeder reduces costs
Web cushion for tacky films
Molding systems shave time-to-market
Little extruder's success brings more options
Unique design allows production increase
No glare or reflection with this film
Automated die-gap changes
Software program provides maintenance reminders
Feeder offers precise dosing
Moving robots, parts in synch
Screenchanger offers long service life
Online service takes parts from design to manufacture
Blender control offers real-time communication
SPC software upgraded
Printer slices, orients
Sevojno, Serbia-Montenegro with Dragan Djordevic
Automating a more encouraging bottom line
Rapid prototyping as manufacturing, if you like small volumes
Excitement in pipe dies: Adjustable wall thickness on the fly
Dollar diplomacy and new markets
Recycling laws prompt appliance design rethink
GM powers world's largest fuel cell operation
Serbia-Montenegro's processors remain undaunted
Guidance to PET bottlers: no more OPS shrink sleeves
Optical plastics: big effort, small market
Power to the people
Adhesive provides the tie that binds
Making volatile corrosion inhibitors an explosive issue
European auto market is on the road to recovery
Lean thinking: It's here to stay
Don't make your ERP an IT project
Making the most of K
Capital Investment: Planning strategies for 2004
Reassessing the other Asian Goliath
Searching for growth in 2004
Would you like to know more?
Separating plastics from metals gains steam
ABS beats metals in harsh borehole environment
Medical devices: Processors' panacea?
ERP, once a luxury, now a necessity
Dimensions of leadership
China operations and the competitive advantage
Extrusion die design creates greenhouse roofing
New conicals for European shops
Temperature controllers
Laser-sinterable metal used to create inserts in an additive process
Cool Finger eases end product from mold
New unit moves faster, cuts dead time
Easy-to-install cleaner tackles dirty parts
Unit minimizes mixing time in low-heat process
Bigger brother platform for smaller cutting unit
Winder boosts output for wider lines
Innovative temperature controller
Ireland - with Apt in Carrickmacross
Pipe makers search for emerging markets and niches to fuel growth
Water-assist molding bears fruit, homes in on automotive applications
Foam injection molding: The search for a better method
Eastbound processors face cultural, political, governmental hurdles
That's no beer crate, bub, it's a marketing tool!
China disk industry set to be world's largest by 2008
Utilities compete, processors win
Reorganized, reenergized, reemerging
California looks for relief from its workers' comp headache
High risks in Chinese mold forays
Juice bottlers take next steps in evolution
Natural fibers' growing needs
Something's happening here
Size does matter
Site selection: following customers, opportunity
When will Europe show manufacturing growth?
Continued strength in U.S. boosts orders to processors
The other currency
Chinese Polycarbonate Market Set for 10.4% Growth
California examines enforcement of rigid plastic container law
Cross-laminated film offers high strength, more stiffness
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Haitian ready to take on European IM suppliers -in Europe
Flat-screen TVs change picture
Appliances: Easier (and cheaper) does it
Deduster pushed outside U.S.
Conical twin-screw extruder unveiled
Fast top entry robot
Ink-jet printer
3-D milling
Entry-level PU system
Simulation software
Accurate cavity readings
Three sizes available
Illinois molder brings innovation to bear on capitalization
Distributing low cost and added value
Compression and injection molding wrestle for closures
Pipe-makers calculate profit growth with automatic line changes
Compounding developments improve processor efficiency
For machinery suppliers, intellectual protection in China is a big concern
Staying ahead of the game
Build it and they will come
In Iran, automotive takes a front seat
At home in European cars, 3-D blowmolding heads overseas
Powder impression molding process is rolling
Global equipment suppliers solidify their Chinese positions
Give thermosets an even break
Book your K rooms now, say the experts
Trade Winds
What does China fear? India--and an overheated economy
Something old, something new
First Look: Industry News & Analysis - January '04
High-end TPV supplier toughs it out
Rigid packaging: Clarity, speed, and no rest for the weary
Flexible packaging looks for competitive edge
Flexible Printer
Mobile controller
Feature-rich budget control interface
Nozzle injects melt and gas
Magnetic QMC gets clever
Energy-efficient controller for molds
Do-it-yourself robot grippers
Cost-effective cast line
Small size, versatility
Double-belt lines make panel production easy
Alternative to low-pressure machines
Simulation saves pultruders time
Granulator eliminates waste in cleanrooms
Water, oil temperature control units
System designed for easier upgrading
Tabletop ultrasonic welder
Automated specimen feeder system
