Big companies should have ambitious visions, and few are as aspiring as Victoria, Australia-based Amcor’s announced packaging benchmark for 2025: It is the first global packaging company pledging to ...

Industries everywhere depend on plastic. Meet leaders at the center of it all at the Southeast’s largest plastics and polymers trade show. Discover the latest thinking in injection molding, 3D ...

Until she retired in September 2021, Clare Goldsberry reported on the plastics industry for more than 30 years. In addition to the 10,000+ articles she has written, by her own estimation, she is the ...

Detectable plastics and rubber are essential in preventing contamination risks in industries like food production and pharmaceuticals, where safety is critical. This paper discusses how Eriez PolyMag ...

In the EU, tethered closures will soon be mandatory for most single-use plastic containers. We expect other regions around the world to adopt similar legislation in the near future. Are you ready? How ...

As technology advances with the rise of Industry 4.0, manufacturing automation is transforming the tool and die shop floor. Machines are being integrated with Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT), ...

In the Manufacturing 4.0 era, chemical manufacturers have more data at their fingertips than ever. This offers the promise of process optimization: higher production rates, more consistent quality, ...

Currently, Teamvantage (www.teamvantage.com) is in the process of moving into the company’s new 111,000-sq-ft, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Forest Lake, MN, which will house expanded ISO ...

When China stopped accepting recycled materials from the United States and Europe, it exposed the shortcomings of mechanical recycling. Fortunately, existing and emerging technologies offer other ...

New research from late last month found that mining operations in the western United States were creating mineral dust that ended up in the snowpack of the Rockies. In some cases, the dust was found ...

Sabic (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) announced it is restructuring to create a more responsive and cost-efficient organization that meets customer needs more effectively. The manufacturing company, which is ...

Vortex core pins and plugs are made of Porcerax II, a porous, sintered metal. Because the material is 25% air by volume, it vents gas without the need for a separate venting component. As a result, ...