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Last Chance! Top Shops Survey Closes at Midnight!

The ninth annual Top Shops benchmarking survey for injection molders is now open, providing molders a free opportunity to see how they stack up with fellow molders via a customized report.

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Take Top Shops 2025 Injection Molding Survey Today

The Top Shops injection molding benchmarking survey could help you replace “I think,” “It seems,” or “I’d guess” with “I know” when it comes to how your operation stacks up with the competition.

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Annual Benchmarking Survey of Injection Molders Released

Plastics Technology Top Shops Benchmarking Survey provided both unanimous responses and divided results, but pervasive throughout is the sense of an industry still grappling with the aftermath of 2020’s global pandemic.

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COVID-19’s Long Shadow

More than four years on, there are aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic that linger in their impacts to the plastics market and are made visible in our annual survey.

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New, Streamlined Injection Molding Benchmarking Survey Opens

The free, anonymous Top Shops Benchmarking Survey has been divided into core questions and modules, giving companies the option to complete a shorter questionnaire.

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Top Shops Benchmarking Report: Molding at the Margin

In a world of rising costs and uncertain market conditions, the ability to wring maximum profits from existing ´óÏó´«Ã½ was truly the mark of a Top Shop in 2022.

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Make Your Mark: Free Benchmarking Survey Remains Open

You have until April 30 to fill out your 2023 Plastics Technology Top Shops Benchmarking Survey, with no cost to you and a free analysis of your operations’ performance upon completion.

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Top Shops Time: Take the Injection Molding Benchmarking Survey Today

Plastics Technology has once again opened its annual survey of injection molders — participate in the anonymous benchmarking questionnaire today and reward your company with a free customized report.

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Sharpen Your Pencils: Participate In ‘Top Shops' Benchmarking Survey

The free, anonymous survey of injection molders is open for responses, and all shops that complete the questionnaire will receive a customized report of the results. Honorees also will be recognized in the magazine.

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2022 Top Shops Benchmarking Survey: Cost Conquerors

Higher costs for materials, wages, utilities and more, coupled with delivery difficulties for both incoming supplies and outgoing production, posed unique challenges to 2022’s class of Top Shops.

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