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Skin and Bones
Beauty won over brawn in this year’s SPE Automotive Plastics Innovation Awards.
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NPE News Wrap-Up: Materials Handling
The big show in Chicago presented more new loaders, feeders, blenders, and conveying controls than you could count. They’re more flexible, easier to maintain, and easier to control. Many are web-enabled, and some are lower in cost.
Read MoreNot Your Father's Hopper Loader
Remember the old days when materials-handling equipment was a bunch of sheet-metal bins, dusty hoppers, spaghetti tubing, and noisy vacuum blowers?
Read MoreOne Jump Ahead of China
Domestic producers of polyethylene film and bags are having a tough time with imports.
Read MoreHard Choices
Last month’s Big Blackout is still very much on my mind, not least because as I write this, my office still struggles without telephone, e-mail, or internet service.
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A Show Of Ideas
Two big questions about the recent NPE show in Chicago have now been answered.
Read More‘Polymer Pipeline’ Starts in High School
The plastics-processing community in Mississippi is relatively small.
Read MoreNPE: What's Different This Time
War, terrorism, and a sluggish global economy aren’t enough to keep NPE 2003 from being a fascinating show.
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The New Look of Polypropylene
Senior Editor Lilli Sherman’s feature this month on “The New Polypropylenes” is not only chock-full of new product developments—it also gives some insight into the industry that makes the largest-selling resin in the U.S.
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Packaging & Automotive Top the News
Food and consumer packaging was the focus of new developments in polyolefins and styrenics, while automotive was the main target for new engineering materials.
Read MoreHow Is It Working for You?
The Internet investment bubble may have burst, and some twenty-something ex-billionaires may have moved back in with their parents, but the "dot-com thing" is definitely not over.
Read MoreLeave the Lawyers Out of It
When someone has an original idea in plastics, they often seek a patent.
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