May 2025 Issue
May 2025
Digital Edition
Features
Featured articles from the May 2025 issue of Plastics Technology
Innovative Film Processor Adds Water-Blown Technology to Barrier Offerings
Established as a market leader in technical films in Latin America, Plastilene enters North American barrier market with nine-layer technology, including an upside-down, water-quenched system.
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When Injection Molding Simulation Can Be a Great Troubleshooting Tool
Injection molding simulation can serve as a powerful tool not just for design but also for ongoing production optimization.
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How Compression Ratio Impacts Extruder Performance
Let’s investigate how compression ratio affects performance of an extruder processing LLDPE.
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Plastics Processing Activity Lands Flat at 50 in March
Latest reading is a slight regression from February’s expansion but not enough to call it contraction.
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A Processor's Guide to Making World-Class Multilumen Tubing
Process innovation is pushing catheter design to the limit. Here are Lubrizol’s tricks of the trade.
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The Recycling Collaboration That Is Making Circular Film a Reality
Nova Chemicals and Novolex are commissioning a large mechanical recycling facility for film to film.
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Open Press/No Operator: Plastics Processing and the Skills Gap
Order for parts? Check. Material…machine…mold? Check…check…check. Operator? Operator…?
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Polymer Science for Those Who Work With Plastics: Why Entanglements — Not Just Molecular Weight — Drive Plastic Performance
Ever try running your fingers through tangled hair? Yeah … that’s not fun, but that’s what happens at the molecular level when polymer chains reach the right length. They wrap around each other, intertwine and … get stuck — and those tangles are the real reason plastics perform the way they do.
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Cork Compounds for High Strength, Low Weight Performance Composites
Amorim Cork Solutions enable bio-based designs for injection molded products.
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What You Need to Consider Before Adding a Compounding Line to Your Operation
Material volume, extruder size, facility space and power, and vendor expertise drive equipment choice.
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May 2025: Prices for 4 of the 5 Commodity Resins Flat-to-Down
PET is the exception from this general trajectory, at least for now.
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Circular Plastics From Cyclic Molecules
Macrocycle is pioneering an approach to PET recycling via cyclic oligomers.
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