Mold Maker of the Year McPhee is on a mission
Mold Craft Inc. engineer Justin McPhee: “It’s why God put me here — to push forward manufacturing.”
Breaking News in Flexible Packaging May 2023
If you’re interested in an informative and fast read on the subject of flexible packaging, this is for you — an all-in-one location for a steady stream of curated news and developments in this dynamic market for the current month. You’ll find regularly updated news and developments in the ever-widening world of applications for pouches, bags, films, and other types of flexible packaging sourced from supplier breakthroughs, brand launches, and other advances…
Turn Your Dad into a Superhero for Father’s Day
Sure, your dad is your hero, but he could be so much more — a superhero, in fact. The Selfie Series from toymaker Hasbro does just that by 3D printing their face on the body of a six-inch action figure. The process is enabled by 3D printing technology company Formlabs. You simply upload a few photos of your father’s face to the Hasbro Pulse mobile app, choose hair color, add a beard…
Resin Price Report: Buyers Unmoved by Increased Resin Inventory
Prime polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) prices held flat last week, as business became a bit more challenging amid additional upstream inventory growth and modest interest from buyers, reports the PlasticsExchange in its Market Update. A smattering of both PE and PP off-grade railcars were available in the spot market. While some sold, offers seemed to accumulate. Prime railcars could be ordered with a little lead time. There was good…
Bioplastics Live May 2023: Bioplastics offer climate benefits, but need investment and research
Bioplastics can help companies reduce their carbon footprint but they need more work to become competitive with fossil fuel-based polymers.
UN targets 80% reduction in plastics pollution
A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme tries to put numbers behind levers that can reduce plastics in the environment.
How to Effectively Grow a Small Business by Expanding Output
Smaller companies often face challenges when it comes to growth, and expanding output capacity can be an effective solution. In addressing your company’s needs, you have several choices: Innovate with new products, expand your current customer offerings with complementary products, acquire another company, or simply expand your output capacity. The last option makes the most sense. Why? For starters, you may not have to enlarge your footprint significantly. In many…
Drones and Injection Molding Ready for Takeoff
A confluence of the broader trends of lightweighting, reshoring and automation that seem to be impacting so many different sectors are combining in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) space in a manner that could pose huge potential for injection molders. Last week, I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion at the Xponential 2023 show in Denver. Co-hosted by AUVSI (Assn. for Uncrewed Vehicles International) and Messe Düsseldorf…
The Troubleshooter: Building a Validated Plastic Injection Molding Process
The primary goal of plastic injection molding processors is the development of robust processes for all jobs running on the production floor. During the engineering stage, successful molding companies understand that robust, consistent, and repeatable processes must be established. This article outlines the steps required to establish such processes and run a profitable, efficient shop. Validated injection molding process, stage one First, let’s establish that every process must follow normal…
Seaweed-based straw maker Loliware scaling up with new financing
Atlanta-based venture capital group Engage this month selected Loliware LLC as one of eight companies in the 2023 class of its Enterprise “go-to-market” program.