FR395BR, an advanced flame retardant synergist engineered for bromine-antimony systems in ABS, PS and HIPS applications, ...

Tite Box Dumper offers dust-free bulk material transfer with a light curtain safety system, letting one operator load via ...

The 8,000-square-foot facility in Bay City expands U.S. manufacturing capacity, supports plastics recycling and invests in ...

Pearlescence, haze, rocker bottoms, and top-load failure are common ills that can afflict PET bottles. Cures for all of these are readily available. An article in the December 2014 issue (Blow Molding ...

While I’ve written on this two on two separate occasions (see March 2017 and October 2011 Injection Molding Know-How columns), I think it’s important enough to warrant yet another examination. There ...

Save a brief period when he struck out on his own as a consultant, Brandon Birchmeier has spent nearly all of his professional life going back to 2013 enmeshed in the development, application and ...

OMV Machinery S.R.L. (Verona, Italy), a division of Swiss-based Wifag/Polytype Holding AG, has been purchased by Florida-based MalStra LLC (Royal Palm Beach, Fl.). Terms of the transaction were not ...

I started in this industry back in 1994 at Cherry Electrical Products in its Control Device injection molding division as a third-shift machine operator. The title operator was stretching it a bit.

Recently I was talking to a tool maker who manages tool repairs in the manufacturing environment. This is a whole different ballgame from working in the tool shop where the pressure of line shutdowns ...

Discover how Krauss Maffei Extrusion is driving advanced plastic recycling through extrusion-based engineering solutions. This webinar explores mechanical and chemical recycling technologies, ...

Polyethylene has been around as a commercial material for a little over 70 years. It was one of the early developments in synthetic thermoplastics. Given its long history, it could be assumed that we ...

Maybe this time the often-predicted breakthrough will actually occur. What could make the difference are improved resins, clarifiers, and machinery. You’ve heard it all before: Oriented polypropylene ...