Compounding

best practices

Get Better at Swapping Out Your Twin-Screw Elements

Here’s what you need to know to safely and efficiently remove, clean, restage, and reinstall your twin-screw extruder screw set.

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Blow Molding

April’s Index: 48.2

Larger plants doing much better. Capital spending plans jump.

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Blow Molding

What Does It Take To Take on the World?

Participate in Plastics Technology鈥檚 second annual World Class Processors benchmarking survey and see how you stack up.

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DuPont To Inaugurate New Chinese Compounding Facility

Called Apollo and located in the Guangming New District of Shenzhen, the facility will be DuPont’s largest compounding operation in the world.

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Reshoring Trend: Fading or Going Strong?

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

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Extrusion

February’s Index—49.6

Processing market at highest level since last April.

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Coperion Relocates U.S. Headquarters

Compounding equipment machine builder completes move from Ramsey, N.J. to three other facilities.

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Compounding

Online Global Marketplace For Polymer Transactions

Service allows polymer buyers and sellers around the world to post products, negotiate, and arrange for shipment.

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January 2016—46.5

Index reaches its highest level since last August.

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