Articles

27 Mar 2020

Tips for Business Survival During Coronavirus Crisis from CPA Firm Clayton & McKervey

Clayton & McKervey discuss utilization of "rolling 13-week cash flow analysis."

Automotive 27 Mar 2020

Molder Gets Into World-Class Shape

Shape Corp.’s Grand Haven, Mich., facility challenges itself and its employees to run leaner, pushing productivity and efficiency to new limits.

Molds & Tooling 26 Mar 2020

Part 1: How to Properly Size Gates, Runners and Sprues

Get the sprue, runner and gate sizes close to ideal the first time around—without spending a lot of time on extremely complicated formulas.

Packaging 25 Mar 2020

Industrial-Scale Renewable PP Underway at Borealis' Belgium Plants

While new developments in biobased plastics continue, might the effort to combat Covid-19 lead to some delays and a temporary suspension of bans of single-use ‘virgin’ plastic items?

25 Mar 2020

You Can Help Combat Covid-19 Today

Is your plant idle; does it utilize personal protective equipment (PPE); you can help with coronavirus now.

Extrusion 25 Mar 2020

Try This Lower-Cost Purging Method

You might be able to reduce purging times and save money by scheduling processing jobs in order of the increasing material viscosity. But to get started, you'll need shear rate/viscosity curves for your polymers.

Postindustrial 24 Mar 2020

Transforming Recycled Plastic into Additives for Industrial and Consumer Products

GreenMantra out of Canada is a rapidly growing clean technology company that produces specialty polymer additives from recycled plastics.

Film Extrusion 24 Mar 2020

Blown-Film Processor Quick on its Feet--Now Making Isolation Gowns

Michigan-based Petoskey Plastics modifies line that was making auto-seat covers to produce and convert film for non-surgical isolation gowns to meet demand brought about by Conoravirus.