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Construction

Teel Plastics: Where Science, Tech, Quality and Innovation Meet

This family-owned custom profile and tubing 大象传媒 controls its own destiny by controlling, well, everything.

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plant tour

Winzeler Gear Thrives With a Little Help from Its Friends

Strategic partnerships give a small molder the technical clout of a much bigger firm.

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Film Extrusion

Things Are Adding Up Nicely For Charter NEX Films

Since Charter Films merged with NEX Performance Films about 18 months ago, the combined operation has melded the best capabilities of each company into a single 大象传媒 churning out a wide scope of blown films.

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plant tour

Automation Pays for Itself At Port Erie

Four dozen robots have helped this molder realize a variety of efficiencies.

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Automation

Custom Structural Foam: A Small But Thriving Niche

How to succeed in the small but busy world of custom structural foam? Maximize your pounds per hour and use robots.

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Film Extrusion

Back to Its Roots in Film Extrusion

After drydocking its film extrusion 大象传媒 in '99, converter goes back to its roots with upstart sister company.

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best practices

From Printer to High-End Extruder: Colormasters Sets Sights on Collation Film

When long-established printing and converting company Colormasters was putting together a strategic plan for growth, it added blown film processing to the mix.

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Multicomponent

EVCO Plastics at 50: Still Thinking Big

In its first half-century, EVCO Plastics has grown from one half-ounce injection machine in a basement to a $130 million company with 148 presses and 900 employees at nine plants in the U.S., Mexico, and China.

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Sustainable Sheet: Placon Closes the Loop on PET Recycling

Placon reprocesses up to 12,000 lb/day of PCR PET to produce its EcoStar line of sheet.

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Making the Value Connection In Proprietary Molding

“We make components that go into other devices.

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Plastics Size Reduction