However, not all innovations are equal and nor do they follow a constant upward trend. Instead, their evolution takes the form of an S-shaped curve that reflects their typical lifecycle from early ...

Plastic is abundant in business and everyday life. You find it as product components, packaging and even in the containers used to ship products. For businesses interested in manufacturing or ...

Extrusion and injection molding are the most important conversion techniques used by the thermoplastics processing industry. Certain factors need to be considered before a thermoplastics material is ...

After 80 years in business, Kautex Maschinenbau GmbH officials know good old-fashioned word of mouth is often the best way to reach more customers. To that end, the German machine maker partnered with ...

Sometimes inspiration comes from a customer. That is certainly the case for Jim Benton, owner of Poly-Tech Plastic Molding Inc. in Prairie Grove, Ark. A request for a better plastic face shield has ...

“Discover, engineer, build” is an apt slogan for Virtual Engineering Days, scheduled for June 15 to 17, 2021. While the virtual event caters to manufacturing professionals and engineers across a ...

NatureWorks now offers three new Ingeo biopolymer grades designed for injection molding and extrusion applications. The company says that this will allow formulations comparable in performance to ...

Germany-based plastic blow molding equipment provider W. Müller GmbH has developed a new generation of screen changers for extrusion blow molding applications. The new screen changers have been ...