End Markets for Plastics

Plastics are deployed in every day products in a number of end markets, including automotive, construction and infrastructure, consumer products, electronics, medical and packaging.

The Recycling Collaboration That Is Making Circular Film a Reality
Recycled Materials

The Recycling Collaboration That Is Making Circular Film a Reality

Nova Chemicals and Novolex are commissioning a large mechanical recycling facility for film to film.

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Medical

What to Look for in High-Speed Automation for Pipette Production

Automation is a must-have for molders of pipettes. Make sure your supplier provides assurances of throughput and output, manpower utilization, floor space consumption and payback period.    

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Blow Molding

How to Extrusion Blow Mold PHA/PLA Blends

You need to pay attention to the inherent characteristics of biopolymers PHA/PLA materials when setting process parameters to realize better and more consistent outcomes.    

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Biopolymers

How to Optimize Injection Molding of PHA and PHA/PLA Blends

Here are processing guidelines aimed at both getting the PHA resin into the process without degrading it, and reducing residence time at melt temperatures.

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Best Methods of Molding Undercuts

Producing plastics parts with undercuts presents distinct challenges for molders.

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Packaging

Solve Four Common Problems in PET Stretch-Blow Molding

Here’s a quick guide to fixing four nettlesome problems in processing PET bottles.

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Commodity Resins

Formulating LLDPE/LDPE Blends For Abuse–Resistant Blown Film

A new study shows how the type and amount of LDPE in blends with LLDPE affect the processing and strength/toughness properties of blown film. Data are shown for both LDPE-rich and LLDPE-rich blends.

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Latest End Markets News And Updates

Automotive

SPE Is Accepting Nominations for 54th Annual Automotive Innovation Awards Gala

Innovation Award nominations are due Sept. 13, 2025, while Hall of Fame Award nominations are due by May 31, 2025.

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All-Electric Injection Machines Enable More Sustainable, Energy-Efficient Processing

Stork’s all-electric injection molding machines include a breaking energy feedback system in which recovered energy can be fed back into the customer energy grid.

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Packaging

Digital Product Passport Trialed by Henkel Consumer Brands

Joint project between R Cycle and converter Korozo Group is implementing packaging traceability technology.

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Company Begins PET Cap Commercial Production

Origin’s CapFormer System 1 passes site acceptance test and begins commercial production of PET closures.

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PET

Make PET Containers From 20 ml to 5 L on One Machine

Cypet’s new PRO Series of one-stage injection stretch-blow molding (ISBM) machines boasts high flexibility, high output, fast payback.

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SABIC Conductive Noryl GTX LMX310 Resins for Dimensional Stability

Polypropylene ether blend for automotive exteriors resist heat and moisture.

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Blending & Dosing

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Packaging

Is There a Better Way to Heat PET Preforms for Stretch-Blow Molding?

Is near-infrared (NIR) heating better, faster and more energy efficient? So far, only two machine builders are making such claims for NIR in place of standard mid-infrared preform heating, though their systems appear to be well accepted. Meanwhile, an altogether different alternative is in the works.

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Medical

Medical and Molding Elite

When Jeff Smith received a notice evicting his promising 大象传媒 out of his house, it could have been the end of Elite Biomedical Solutions’ and Elite Precision Plastics’ stories before they really got started, instead it was just the beginning.

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Automotive

BMW Group Vehicle to Adopt 3D Printed Center Console

A vehicle coming to market in 2027 will include a center console carrier manufactured through polymer robot-based large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM).

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Automotive Awards Highlight Emerging Technologies

Annual SPE Automotive event gives nods to several ‘firsts’ as well as sustainability.

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Medical

3D Printed Spine Implants Made From PEEK Now in Production

Medical device manufacturer Curiteva is producing two families of spinal implants using a proprietary process for 3D printing porous polyether ether ketone (PEEK).

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processor's edge

Packaging Converter Adopts PE-Based Vacuum Skin Packaging (VSP) for Food Applications

Videplast and ExxonMobil collaborated on the development of this cost-effective VSP film solution that contains no ionomers.

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