January 2025 Issue
January 2025
Digital Edition
Features
Featured articles from the January 2025 issue of Plastics Technology
To Cushion or Not To Cushion: That Is the Question
Whether or not your process setup includes adding cushion depends on multiple factors, including the part being molded. Learn when and how to effectively apply cushion in your process.
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Polymer Science for Those Who Work With Plastics: Molecular Weight — What It Is and Why It Matters
Molecular weight might seem like an abstract concept, but it plays a crucial role in determining the behavior of plastics during processing and in their final applications.
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Plastics Index Shows Supply Chain Improvement Despite Production Slowdown
Future expectations reach 2024 high on the heels of the recent election.
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How Yeast Could Give Rise to Bioplastic
Researchers work to scale up a biomanufacturing process for succinic acid, an important building block for industrial chemicals and a biopolymer precursor.
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Processors: Gear Up to Handle More Regrind
Plastics auxiliary and primary processing equipment was optimized for running pellets; here’s how you can adjust to the bulk density differences of flake and regrind in drying, conveying, mixing, feeding and processing.
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Be Our Guest
The Plastics Technology Expo (PTXPO) returns March 18-20 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, with elements old and new.
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Prices of Volume Resins Drop by Year-End
Entering 2025, prices of major commodity and volume resins are generally in a ‘buyer’s market.’
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PolyJohn Turns to Blow Molding, Doubles Its Productivity
Leading maker of portable sanitation products knew thermoforming, sheet extrusion, rotomolding and injection molding. Then it found the missing link to higher productivity and new markets: blow molding.
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Production Monitoring Automates Molder’s Planning, Operations
DCT saves 60 man-hours per week by shifting from paper records and discrete spreadsheets to a shared, automatic production monitoring platform.
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Understanding 'Boundary Conditions' in Twin-Screw Compounding
In twin-screw compounding, the objective is generally to produce the highest quality product at the maximum strand. But sometimes there are operating parameters that prevent this objective from being realized.
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Automotive Awards Highlight Emerging Technologies
Annual SPE Automotive event gives nods to several ‘firsts’ as well as sustainability.
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Applying AI to Manage, Synchronize Material Data and Power Material Development
Global masterbatch and compound producer Kafrit Group worked with MaterialsZone to apply AI to its raw materials management and product development.
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What You Need to Know About Roll-Cooling Design
Cooling rolls might not look like high-tech machines, but the fact is there is a surprising amount of technology involved in their design, manufacture and use. Here’s what you need to know.
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Novel Line Turns Fluff to Blown Film
Processor Bioflex of Mexico is utilizing Reifenhäuser Blown Film’s EVO Fusion technology to integrate postindustrial and postconsumer recycled materials into products.
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