June 2025 Issue
June 2025
Digital Edition
Features
Featured articles from the June 2025 issue of Plastics Technology
Blow Molder’s Packing & Shipping Upgrades Save Bottle Customer Over $90,000
Currier Plastics’ continuous improvement program brought new efficiencies in processing, packaging and shipping for the molder and for a bottle customer.
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Fermentation Process to Enable Compostable Biopolymers
Valerian Materials was founded to commercialize the results of federally funded research conducted at the University of Minnesota, producing bio-based alternatives to fossil-based polyurethanes.
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The Role of Policy in Accelerating Advanced Recycling: How EPR Can Drive Circularity
Extended producer responsibility laws are emerging as a key mechanism to shift packaging waste management dynamics.
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Why ‘Smart’ Mixing May be Right for You
Industry 4.0 smart controllers dial in the right recipes quickly with gain-in-weight blenders to eliminate material waste, cost overruns.
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Plastics Processing Index Cools with 45.3 April Reading
Processors are feeling impact of tariff uncertainty and market hesitancy as new orders slow
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The 3 C’s of Clean Lubricants
Clean lubricants enable machines to meet OEM specifications from the outset, keeping sensitive components like servovalves, hoses and proportional control valves operating smoothly, while avoiding contaminants — even as small as a few microns — that drastically shorten their lifespans.
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Understanding Postmold Shrinkage — Why Do Part Dimensions Change Over Time? — Part 1
What role does the glass transition temperature (Tg) of a polymer play in whether a molded part will continue to shrink after it’s molded?
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Polymer Showdown — POM vs. POK — May the Best Material Win!
Third in a series, an expert from plastics engineering consultancy The Madison Group pits leading thermoplastics against each other to see how they differ in processing characteristics, chemical resistance, thermal and mechanical performance and more.
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Let's Take a Deeper Dive on Compression Ratio for Single-Screw Extruders
Two real-world processes illustrate the importance of compression ratio.
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Art or AI?
Is AI a tool that humans can use to increase their efficiency or a replacement for them altogether?
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June 2025: Prices for the Five Commodity Resins Flat to Down
This overall resin pricing trend could continue into the start of the third quarter.
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Keeping Process Water Cool and Efficiency High in the Desert
Rehrig Pacific turned to Process Cooling Systems to create a high-efficiency plantwide process-cooling system for its newest injection molding facility outside of Phoenix.
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