Upward trajectory in January for four of the five major commodity resins, but overall processors face less volatility.

For the last decade, the survey (open until March 31) has gathered and analyzed data to deliver insights that help injection molders improve operations.

Gardner Business Index hit 52.1, pointing toward optimism as consumer spending increases despite uncertain tariff impacts and labor market conditions.

Registration is now open for the inaugural CONTRAX, America’s Contract Manufacturing Expo, which runs June 24-25 in Austin, Texas. Presented by Gardner Business Media, Inc., Plastic’s Technology ’s ...

Stäubli F luid Connectors ’ latest multicoupling system, SMI209, was designed to meet the quality, safety and process control demands of the medical injection molding industry. “Medical molding is ...

Omri Schulman is a materials scientist with a master’s degree in materials science and engineering and more than eight years of R&D experience spanning plastics, polymers and additive manufacturing.

Producing plastics parts with undercuts presents distinct challenges for molders. Undercuts are protrusions or recessions in a part that prevent the mold, after the part is formed, from sliding away ...

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 ...

Pearlescence, haze, rocker bottoms, and top-load failure are common ills that can afflict PET bottles. Cures for all of these are readily available. An article in the December 2014 issue (Blow Molding ...

In our 2024 Top Shops injection molding benchmarking survey, Philip Katen of Plastikos talked about a “grind-it-out” phase for processors working out post-COVID inventory overcorrections. In 2025’s ...

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 ...

The German maker of injection molding machines announced that Volker Nilles will fulfill the role held by Gerhard Böhm, who is retiring.