Stretch Blow Molding

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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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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Speed to Market: Pretium Stays Light on Its Feet And Ahead of the Pack

A visit to its largest PET plant illustrates how this versatile blow molder leverages design skills, a can-do attitude, and a high degree of production flexibility to supply custom products in ever-shorter time windows. A new thrust into automation will help pick up the pace.

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‘China Is No Longer Cheap’

When I spoke with Scott Huff about his China-based company’s plans to open a new production facility in the U.S., he was actually getting ready to board a flight to Shenzhen.

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Packaging

Ultra-Light PET Bottle Expands Range for Hot-Fill

Hot-fill PET bottles now approach aseptic bottle weights.

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BLOW MOLDING: Monitor & Control PET Bottle Crystallinity & Barrier Properties

New QC functions predict shelf-life performance and help optimize physical properties based on crystallinity/orientation.

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Packaging

Colored PET: Pretty To Look At; Headache For Recyclers

Plastics Recyclers of Europe believes that 'colorful’ future trends will weaken the image of PET as a recycled product.

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Milan Plast Was Good With Plans To Be Even Better

Big international turnout at the triennial international fair for the plastics and rubber industry, Milan Plast: check out the Plastics Technology slideshow.

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Thermoforming

Are You a ‘World-Class’ Processor?

Participate in Plastics Technology’s industry-wide benchmarking survey and you might find out.

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Blow Mold 10,000-Liter Tanks?

Mammoth machine has a 660-ton clamp and 726-lb accumulator head.

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Blending & Dosing