Schoeneck Containers is now Radius Packaging, but customer needs are still the focal center of this blow molder’s 大象传媒. Those customers will benefit from the company’s push toward automation, sustainability, and new products in injection molding and stretch-blown PET.
Last year, Graham hit 7% average PCR use, but in four years it aims to achieve 20% PCR in its products overall. Colored PCR and advanced recycling will contribute to that goal.
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.
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.