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Plastic Process Equipment (PPE; Macedonia, Ohio) has added a portable battery-powered hot-tip sprue cleaner to its offerings. The company says replacing a cord with battery power lends mobility to the ...

PACK EXPO International 2026, produced by PMMI, the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, runs Oct. 18-21, 2026, at McCormick Place in Chicago. The trade show is one of North ...

Cypet Technologies, the Cyprus-based maker of stretch-blow molding machines and specialist in designing and molding large containers, has offered a peek at what it calls the world’s first 1,000-L PET ...

A portfolio of flame-retardant polypropylene (FR PP) compounds is now available and comprised of three distinct families from Sirmax North America (Anderson, Indiana), a global supplier of PP ...

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.

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Middle East conflict, energy costs and new tariffs create uncertainty for global feedstock and resin production, supply chain logistics and price trends.

Sidel’s new returnable/reusable PET bottle design for still water comes in a range of sizes that are lighter than previous designs for carbonated water.

Polyolefins face highest price hikes due to the Iranian conflict’s disruption of global energy, feedstock and resin trade flows.

While uncertainty remains due to geopolitical risks, the sharp price escalation of nearly all resins has slowed and is reversing in some cases.

Middle East conflict, energy costs and new tariffs create uncertainty for global feedstock and resin production, supply chain logistics and price trends.