Carbon black pigments have been standard for black parts. However, these pigments block the signal of NIR optical sorting ...

Chemille’s artificial intelligence works in the background to enable material selection recommendations, listing possible solutions based on the keywords entered by the user. When a user enters a ...

Milliken & Co. announced the latest generation of its Millad clarifiers, the ClearX 9000 clarifier for polypropylene (PP) Milliken Starts Production of New PP Clarifier Plant. Millad ClearX 9000 was ...

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 ...

Over the years, I’ve seen firsthand how evolving standards and increasing demands for precision are reshaping the way the plastics industry approaches melt-flow testing. The updates to ASTM D1238-23 ...

Dowsil 5-1050 PPA for film packaging.Dow Chemical Co. announced the launch of Dowsil 5-1050 Polymer Processing Aid (PPA), designed to address the growing demand for film packaging manufactured without ...

A pipe producer based in Egypt credits new extrusion technology from battenfeld-cincinnati with saving it more than $1 million in material costs to produce HDPE pipe in an outside diameter of nearly 9 ...

At K 2025, Progressive Components will introduce the latest version of its ProFile unified platform, which combines asset management, real-time data and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting from ...

Pricing for the five commodity resins were relatively flat headed into the third quarter’s last month. Barring weather and/or geopolitical production and supply disruptions, including tariffs, prices ...

PBT compound will support consumer electronics applications.According to SABIC, the material addresses growing demand across the consumer electronics industry for lightweight and durable metal-plastic ...

Patented technology aimed specifically at processors of complex profiles such as PVC window lineals promises to boost output rates by 25-50% by increasing cooling in the calibrators. Its inventor, ...

Dr. Joseph Scuralli, former president of Wayne Machine & Die Co., Totawa, N.J. has formed his own sales representative firm, Extrudamerica LLC, which specializes in plastic, silicone and rubber ...