Jim Callari

Jim Callari Editorial Director

Do You ‘Run to Fail’?

Processors without a preventative maintenance plan might be paying more in the long run.

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Film Extrusion

Switch to AC Drives & Save Energy, Maintenance Costs

Smaller, cooler AC packages can be retrofitted to existing lines to slash energy use and maintenance costs.

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Packaging

Report: Packaging Still Growing

New report by packaging association projects growth in contract packaging over next several years, in particular for personal care and pharmaceutical.

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Get Ready for an Explosion in Additive Manufacturing

If you want very small production runs, or to do more of your own mold building, ‘AM’ might be for you.

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Automotive

Teel Plastics: Where Science, Tech, Quality and Innovation Meet

This family-owned custom profile and tubing business controls its own destiny by controlling, well, everything.

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Molder PMT Named Manufacturer of the Year

Texas molder gets this award and two others at American Manufacturing Leadership Summit.

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A New Chapter Is Written In the History of Plastics Technology

Changes to our 60-year-old publication are made with you—our reader—in mind.

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Thermoforming

Thermoformer’s Name Change Reflects Refocused Strategy

New identity highlights processor’s focus on technology, product quality, and food safety.

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Film Extrusion

Collaboration Yields First Transparent, Conductive PC Film

Big application for new film is touch screens to speed response times.

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Maruka Opens Florida Tech Center

Grand opening will include roundtable discussion between legislators and business leaders on the future of the state’s plastics manufacturing industry.

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A 'New' Plastics Technology Coming Next Month

A redesigned version of the magazine is coming in July.

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best practices

Things Are Adding Up Nicely For Charter NEX Films

Since Charter Films merged with NEX Performance Films about 18 months ago, the combined operation has melded the best capabilities of each company into a single business churning out a wide scope of blown films.

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