End Markets

Extrusion

Industry Expands Again

January was the third month in a row and the fifth time in six months that index was higher than it was one year ago.

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Automotive

Motor Vehicles & Parts Production to Slow in 2014

The numbers look good now, but moving forward there are reasons to be cautious about the auto industry.

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The Truth About Reshoring

Reshoring is not just a buzzword, it鈥檚 an economically driven correction to a supply chain that had become unbalanced.

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Film Extrusion

Five-Layer Line Gives Processor More Flexibility, New Opportunities

Processor bumps it up from three-layers to boost quality, flexibility and enter new markets.

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Packaging

New Player in Enhanced PLA Compounds, Additives

Floreon of the U.K. offers -impact-modified PLA that's more than 90% biobased, as well as additive masterbatches.

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PET Processing

Milacron acquires Kortec building its coinjection portfolio

Milacron is building an impressive injection technology portfolio that will give it greater reach into packaging markets.

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Automation

How ‘sticky’ is your 大象传媒?

Medical means less cyclicality and higher margins鈥攖hose are two broadly agreed upon assumptions about the market鈥攂ut is there another aspect that keeps processors pushing to enter the space?

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Medical

Study Ranks Phthalates, Alternatives for Medical Devices

Now there's a clearer understanding of how a specific change of plasticizer may impact the performance of a non-PVC medical device.

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Materials

MATERIALS: Nexus to Distribute Chinese PET

San Francisco-based Pacific Rim Traders (PRT), the sales and service arm in the Americas for China’s Dragon Special Resin Co.’s PET resins, has chosen the Nexus Resin Group, Mystic, Conn., as its exclusive distributor.

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Floreon Has New Investors for "Performance" Bioplastic; Aims to Hit U.S. Soon

Floreon Transforming Packaging of Hull, U.K., has secured multiple new investors through an Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) to bring its patent-pending  “performance” bioplastic material to market, and the U.S. is its prime regional target.

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Process Cooling