Going into May, the continued conflict with Iran and stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, continued to significantly impact global resin trade flows as supplies of energy and petrochemical feedstocks ...

Custom injection molder Hoffer Plastics announced the hiring of Dan Clark to be its director of manufacturing. In this newly created role, Clark will lead manufacturing operations, including driving ...

Sustainable Packaging to see how plastics packaging leaders across the supply chain position polymers as the sustainable ...

Trash Panda, a manufacturer of throwing discs for disc golf, and footwear company Crocs have partnered to produce a disc made from recycled Crocs shoes. Trash Panda is taking shreds made from used ...

Everything you need to know about the importance of proper drying in your production process.

Nissha Medical Technologies (NMT), the medical device business unit of Japan’s Nissha Co. Ltd., broke ground on a new 50,000‑square‑foot purpose‑built micromolding facility in New Richmond, Wisconsin.

Twin-screw extrusion fell 51.2% from the previous quarter, while single-screw extrusion decreased 24.4%. Injection molding shipments declined 13.0% quarter over quarter but were up 19.0% over 2025. On ...

Braskem has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains to negotiate terms of a $50-million award under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. This ...

DSM Engineering Materials has completed its newly upgraded and expanded Evansville, Indiana, engineering thermoplastics production facility. The investment, which has resulted in significant ...

The companies reported that this joint sales and marketing effort successfully converted dozens of customers from traditional tooling to digital tooling. With this new deal, Nexa3D said it augments ...

At last fall’s K 2025 fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, a Cyprus-based builder of injection stretch-blow molding machines (ISBM) showed off its latest developments in PET containers of up to 1,000 liters ...

Ahead of the first NPE since 2018, PLASTICS announced that its triennial show will stay in Orlando and early May for ’27, ’30 and ’33.