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Igus Invests in Production, Online Service & Recycling
War in Ukraine accelerated igus’ expansion of production capacity. Also new and growing are low-cost online robot engineering and integration, and recycling of energy chains.
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What If the 1970s Came Back?
Who wants to go back to plastics shortages and soaring prices? What are we doing to resurrect the conditions that produced those painful results?
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What Happened the Last Time(s) Oil Markets Went Crazy
With oil prices bouncing around record highs and inflation in the double digits, things may look bad now, but the plastics industry has been there before—and came out ahead.
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Uniloy Enters PET Stretch-Blow Market with Assets from Amsler Equipment
Uniloy is now servicing existing Amsler PET machines and equipment and will build new ‘Uniloy SBM’ machines in the future.
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Schoeneck Containers Is Now Radius Packaging
Name change reflects a broader focus on complete rigid packaging solutions, and keeping customers as the central focus.
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Plastiblow Beefs Up Service for North American Blow Molders
New organization at Plastiblow distributor Globeius provides better technical assistance and spare-parts availability in North America.
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Machine Monitoring System Now Offers ‘Escalating Alerts’ of Downtime & Alarms
Guidewheel’s FactoryOps machine monitoring platform has a new feature to ensure faster response to downtime or other alerts.
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The Man Who Loved Trade Shows
I must have attended nearly 100 trade shows—why can’t I get enough of them? Why am I itching to get to PTXPO 2022?
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Coca-Cola Pledges to Use More Refillable Bottles
Coca-Cola says 25% of all its beverages globally will be delivered in returnable/refillable containers by 2030, up from 16% in 2020.
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New Wear Resistant Bar Stock for Specialty Machined Parts
Four new rod/bar stocks are self-lubricating for maintenance-free operation. Two are food-grade.
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The Awful Truth About Weld Lines
As everyone knows, weld lines are weak points. What’s less well known is just what’s going on inside that weld line on a microstructural level. Here’s a close-up look at some nasty little secrets.
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Celanese to Acquire DuPont’s Engineering Plastics
Celanese will acquire nearly all of DuPont’s engineering thermoplastics, except for its Delrin, Multibase and Tedlar products.
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