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Tony Deligio Editor-in-Chief
Tony Deligio is the editor in chief of Plastics Technology magazine. Tony has been covering the global plastics processing industry since 2000, visiting processors and suppliers in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Tony previously covered the plastics processing industry at Injection Molding Magazine, Modern Plastics, Plastics Machinery & Auxiliaries and PlasticsToday. He is a graduate of (Fort Collins, Colo.) with a degree in technical journalism.
Wittmann To Mold Caps at Drinktec 2025
An EcoPower Xpress 160/1100+ will produce 1.35g HDPE caps from a 32-cavity HTW mold in a 2.5-sec. cycle with IMDvista downstream cooling, orientation and inspection.
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Pursuing Paperless: Injection Molders Who Have Embraced Digitization
Read about injection molders who have shifted everything from quality control and scheduling to production and process monitoring to the digital realm.
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Yizumi Rebrands, Dropping HPM Name
The maker of injection molding and die-casting machines will now be Yizumi, not Yizumi-HPM, unifying its global identity and worldwide growth strategy.
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Netstal To Introduce Next-Generation All-Electric Elion Injection Molding Machines at K 2025
Netstal will introduce the Elion MED in Düsseldorf with a smaller footprint and greater energy efficiency.
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Community College Launches Injection Molding Bootcamp
Nebraska’s Central Community College, which has become a centrally located training hub, successfully launched a plastics bootcamp this summer, boosting available workforce for regional molders.
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Keeping Process Water Cool and Efficiency High in the Desert
Rehrig Pacific turned to Process Cooling Systems to create a high-efficiency plantwide process-cooling system for its newest injection molding facility outside of Phoenix.
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North American Plastics Shipments Drop for Second-Straight Quarter
The Plastics Industry Association’s Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES) showed declines on a quarterly and year-over-year basis in the first quarter.
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Bench-Top LSR Injection Molding Machine Launches
APSX  LLC, which previously marketed the APSX‑PIM desktop thermoplastic injection molding machine, has debuted the APSX‑LSR — a bench‑top liquid silicone rubber (LSR) injection system.
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Video Extensometer for Tensile, Compression and Bend Testing
Instron released the AVE3 Advanced non-contacting video extensometer for strain measurement with micron-level accuracy for tensile, compression and bend testing.
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Art or AI?
Is AI a tool that humans can use to increase their efficiency or a replacement for them altogether?
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Plastics Publishing Stalwart T. Peter Sullivan Passes Away at 81
The longtime publisher, whose decades in plastics media started in the 1970s, held leadership roles among the teams that launched Injection Molding Magazine and Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, in addition to serving on the board of PT publisher, Gardner Business Media.
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LSR Cold Runner Deploys Servo-Actuated Needles for Smart Operation
Elmet says the patent-pending SMARTshot I cold runner measurement and control concept uses servo-actuated nozzle needles to enable automatic startup without additional sensors.
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