Tomra Recycling, a supplier of sorting equipment, opened its new test and training center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company offered a tour and demonstrations inside the expanded facilities on ...

A familiar name in the domestic blow molding machinery business has taken up a new post. Chuck Flammer is now VP of machine sales for Uniloy Inc., supporting U.S. and Canadian markets. Flammer has ...

A cutting-edge processor of stretch films has recently collaborated with ExxonMobil to develop a new type of power pre-stretch (PPS) film it contends outperforms competing offerings. Last year, ...

Sepro Group has redesigned its robot line for injection molding machines with up to 900 tons of clamping force. Debuting at K 2025, the new S-Line robots will replace the three-axis S5 Line and ...

The Society of Plastics Engineers’ (SPE) Extrusion Division is holding a conference in June focusing on processing optimization. The SPE Extrusion Optimization TopCon is slated for June 16-18 at the ...

Historically, lengthy computation times created bottlenecks, limiting the number of design variations engineers can practically explore during the development process. The Cadmould AI Solver removes ...

This is the most challenging resin pricing column I’ve had to assemble, starting with the U.S. Supreme Court’s February ruling that invalidated most of President Trump’s broad emergency-based import ...

Polyethylene has been around as a commercial material for a little over 70 years. It was one of the early developments in synthetic thermoplastics. Given its long history, it could be assumed that we ...

Pearlescence, haze, rocker bottoms, and top-load failure are common ills that can afflict PET bottles. Cures for all of these are readily available. An article in the December 2014 issue (Blow Molding ...

Progressive Components (Wauconda, Illinois), an injection molding technology and component supplier, has transitioned to 100% employee ownership through the establishment of an Employee Stock ...

The intensification ratio is equal to the ratio of the effective areas of the hydraulic ram to that of the screw check valve. Since those values often are not readily available, the intensification ...

Industrial Speeds Required New technical developments that support KHS Supreme include scaling up the InnoPET Plasmax coating systems to industrial speeds of 60,000 bottles per hour, up from 48,000 ...