Kyle Kluttz has over 28 years of experience in the manufacturing, service and sale of industrial equipment, including 18 years in leadership roles. He started his career at Donlee Technologies as a ...

Gifted with extraordinary technical know how and an authoritative yet plain English writing style, in this collection of articles Fattori offers his insights on a variety of molding-related topics ...

In today’s fast-evolving industrial landscape, adaptability is not a luxury — it’s a necessity. Flexible automation systems are redefining the way manufacturers respond to market volatility, shifting ...

The 2025 benchmarking survey, based on 2024 data, found that processors gradually moved from defending their market positions ...

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Formosa Plastics Corp. USA announced the successful commissioning of its new polypropylene (PP) reactor at its Point Comfort, ...

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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 ...

Melt flow rate testing can be characterized as the Rodney Dangerfield of material test methods—it gets no respect. People from all parts of the industry downplay the value of the test or denigrate its ...

The GBI measures the current state of plastics processing activity through survey responses covering new orders, production, backlog, employment, exports and supplier deliveries. A reading above 50 ...

The blown film industry has evolved from monolayer film structures to multilayer ones for a variety of food and non-food packaging applications. Depending on the product requirements, a wide array of ...

Kafrit, a well-known Israeli masterbatch and additives manufacturer, has collaborated with start-up Israeli additives company N3Cure to create what they call a breakthrough in crosslinking technology ...