Stretch Blow Molding

Sheet Extrusion

Food Packaging Should Remain Strong

But industrial markets could slip.

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Sheet Extrusion

N.A. Plastics Machinery Shipments On the Rise in Q1

Shipments of primary plastics equipment in the first quarter were up 13.5% from the year-ago quarter.

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

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

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First Aseptic Carton Bottle for Enriched Dairy Products

Nova Chemicals and Tetra Pak collaboration has led to recent commercialization of novel package.

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Slideshow: SPE Fellows Inductees

During the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) ANTEC 2016, SPE will honor the newest Fellows of the Society, which are members who have made outstanding contributions in plastics science, engineering, or management.

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Construction

Ahead of the Curve in Recycling

A pioneer in recycling milk bottles built a thriving ´óÏó´«Ã½ in plastic lumber, but blow molding with PCR has proved a longer, harder road to success.

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Amcor Launches New Business For Small-Volume Bottle Production

Full-service design and production available with economical lower-cavitation tooling.

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Packaging

All-Electric Drive Impacts Milk-Jug Blow Molding

Although it has taken more than a decade, electric servo drives are starting to hit their stride in blow molding machines.

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Portuguese Blow Molder Expands Kansas City Plant

Logoplaste will invest $35 million to expand its facility in Kansas City, making it the company’s new U.S. manufacturing and distribution hub.

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Commodity Resins

Why & When Should You Re-Crystallize PET Scrap?

Whether you’re blow molding PET bottles or extruding APET sheet, you’ll produce amorphous scrap in the process. How you handle it will impact your production costs. Re-crystallizing it will help.

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Plastics Size Reduction