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Forks, spoons, lids, plates and straws will look a little different at FIFA World Cup matches later this year. That’s because SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles will be using food service ware made by ...

PolyFlex, part of the Nefab Group, has opened its Wixom, Michigan, campus, a manufacturing and engineering hub for returnable plastic packaging and protective shipping materials serving the automotive ...

After the company’s May 1 launch by a team with more than 40 years of combined experience serving the film extrusion industry, Extrusion Automation is rolling out its first product. The Ex-Trim 1.0 ...

Custom injection molder Hoffer Plastics announced the hiring of Dan Clark to be its director of manufacturing. In this newly created role, Clark will lead manufacturing operations, including driving ...

PureCycle Technologies reported that its PureFive (PP) resin can now be recognized as postconsumer recycled content under New Jersey’s Recycled Content Law (N.J.S.A. 13:1E-99.135). The designation was ...

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.

The conflict with Iran and resulting stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz at the time of this reporting have dramatically disrupted shipping routes and global resin trade flows, particularly for ...

This is the most challenging resin pricing column I’ve had to assemble, starting with the U.S. Supreme Court’s February ruling that invalidated most of President Trump’s broad emergency-based import ...

While prices of polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) all moved up in January, with potential for a bit more by the first quarter’s end, the volatility ...

Processors around the world are finding it increasingly difficult to find, train and keep operators. And during October’s K 2025 show in Düsseldorf, Germany, suppliers of blown film technology ...

When extruding tube and related products, the goal is always to convert process measurements into process adjustments that continually improve line stability and product quality. But always, the ...