Jim Callari

Jim Callari Editorial Director

polyolefins

ExxonMobil Developing Products, People

Meet Sarah Newby, an up-and-coming materials engineer who last summer completed an internship at the chemical and polymer giant.

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Packaging

On-Site: The Buck Stops Here

Fully integrated manufacturing and an unwavering commitment to quality has helped position NELMAR as the ‘gold standard’ in tamper-evident security bags.

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color

Color Done Right

Look for a supplement to the September Issue of Plastics Technology with tips and techniques that will help you make your coloring operations as efficient as possible

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Reshoring Trend: Fading or Going Strong?

One study says it’s over, another source says it still has legs.

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Automotive

Savvy Molder Willing To Share Its Smarts

OCTEX adds advanced metrology technology to brand-new lab, and will make it available to other molders.

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sustainability

Water-Cooler Talk: New Application for Plastic Bags

Who’d have thought that after all these years someone would come up with a new application for the already omnipresent plastic bag?

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Micromolding

Collaboration in Catheters

Medical Murray has developed innovative catheter technologies by working with its customers and down its supply chain.

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Integrated Process Cooling Boosts Output, Cuts Costs

Closed-loop system helps an extrusion processor maintain quality of reusable straws and other products.

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Biopolymers

Search Right Here for Resins, Additives

Resins and additives. They are the ties that bind all plastics processors. Regardless of whether you are injection molding gears, blow molding ducts, or extruding film, you need your hoppers filled with material.

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best practices

MES Helps Molder Tackle Plant Efficiency

New central computer system dramatically improved operating efficiencies and slashed costs for a molder of tackle boxes and other types of cases.

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Making Molding An Absolute ‘Joy’

Mock injection molding plant for Jennifer Lawrence movie was put together by Absolute Machinery Corp.  

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Are You Ready to Take on the World?

Plastics Technology’s exclusive benchmarking study reveals the tactics of processors who just might be in that class.

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