Carbon black pigments have been standard for black parts. However, these pigments block the signal of NIR optical sorting ...

November is a time for giving thanks, and this month PT’s readers were grateful to read about a new catalyst technology, ...

Low-density structural polymer designed for lightweighting while maintaining performance and aesthetics in consumer ...

Winners in 10 automotive plastics application categories and a grand prize winner were chosen from 33 finalists.

The Gardner Business Index (GBI) measures the current state of plastics processing activity through survey responses covering new orders, production, backlog, employment, exports and supplier ...

In our 2024 Top Shops injection molding benchmarking survey, Philip Katen of Plastikos talked about a “grind-it-out” phase for processors working out post-COVID inventory overcorrections. In 2025’s ...

Extended producer responsibility (EPR) changes the waste management model by involving producers in end-of-life disposition of the products they market, often through fees that support collection and ...

Prices for all volume resins through the fourth quarter are generally expected to be flat if not down, particularly as companies enter contract negotiations for 2026. This trend will continue, despite ...

Gardner Business Media (GBM), a leader in media and marketing solutions to industrial markets, has recently launched GROW, a full-funnel marketing services provider. GROW is comprised of four pillars.

A pipe producer based in Egypt credits new extrusion technology from battenfeld-cincinnati with saving it more than $1 million in material costs to produce HDPE pipe in an outside diameter of nearly 9 ...

Pricing for the five commodity resins were relatively flat headed into the third quarter’s last month. Barring weather and/or geopolitical production and supply disruptions, including tariffs, prices ...

Combining KraussMaffei's FiberForm and ColorForm technologies, you can take complex metal parts requiring multi-step, labor-intensive processing and convert them into a single-cell composite solution, ...