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PolyFlex, part of the Nefab Group, has opened its Wixom, Michigan, campus, a manufacturing and engineering hub for returnable plastic packaging and protective shipping materials serving the automotive ...

Penn State Behrend will once again host its annual Innovation and Emerging Plastics Technologies Conference. Held on the Penn State Behrend Campus in Erie, Pennsylvania, the event features ...

Join us as we celebrate the50thyear of the IPOC Fast facts SPEInternational Polyolefins Conference 2025: The Preeminent Polymer Conference in the World dedicated to Polyolefins since 1975 The ...

Displayed is a screenshot from Autodesk Moldflow showing a warped injection molded plastic part. Anyone, including the average consumer, can detect when a part that should be naturally flat is bowed ...

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.

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 ...

The conflict with Iran and resulting stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz at the time of this reporting have dramatically disrupted shipping routes and global resin trade flows, particularly for ...

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 ...

While prices of polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) all moved up in January, with potential for a bit more by the first quarter’s end, the volatility ...

As the European Union’s Green Deal takes effect and companies strive toward climate neutral production by 2050, knowing the product carbon footpring (PCF) of the entire supply chain will become ...

In order to maximize your processing window, vents should be as deep as possible without causing flash. That depth is based on several factors, such as the type and grade of material, part geometry, ...