End Markets

Thermoforming

Food Packaging Should Remain Strong

But industrial markets could slip.

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Additives

Random Color-Infused Masterbatch Boosts Demand For Molded Mini Discs

Zing Mini’s colorful new lineup allows mini-disc golfers to have unique discs.

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Sheet Extrusion

PP Recycling Provides New Life for Keurig K-Cups

Premium coffee maker to shift from multi-layer pods to single-layer polypropylene later this year as demand for recycled PP soars.

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Multiscrew

KraussMaffei Celebrates 50 Years in U.S.

The U.S. has become the largest single-country market for KM.

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Packaging

Blow Molding Challenges Embraced at Metro Mold

“Others mold difficult parts. We mold the impossible.”

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Multicomponent

Two-Shot Molding Helps Make Reshoring Cost-Effective

With help from labor-saving technology, a maker of children’s dinnerware finds a ‘Made in USA’ solution to quality & delivery issues.

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Transitioning From World’s Factory to World’s Designer

China has long since aggregated the means and materials of production, but increasingly it’s seeking to lay claim to the creative origins of products—the design.

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Materials

Top DuPont Award Goes to Hot-Fill Blow Molded PET Container

Graham Packaging鈥檚 technology manipulates PET鈥檚 morphology to create a container with properties that surpass standard PET.

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Packaging

MGS Discusses Its Acquisition

Privately held since 1982, injection molder and moldmaker MGS Mfg. Group Inc. has a new owner for the first time in its history, and it foresees greater growth thanks to the resources of its private equity acquirer.

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Packaging

Braskem Expands R&D Capabilities for UHMWPE

This in keeping with its new UHMWPE plant slated for startup in fourth quarter.

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Blending & Dosing
Process Cooling