Jim Callari

Jim Callari Editorial Director

Captive Molder Beefs Up Auxiliaries to Boost Quality, Consistency

SeeScan adds conveying, drying, feeding and chilling technologies to improve quality — and enhance employee safety — in production of its underground/underwater inspection systems.  

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editorial

Bidding So Long — But Not Goodbye — To Plastics Icon Matt Naitove

After 51 years of contributing content, plastics industry stalwart will take a step back.

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Compounding

More Than a Compounder: They Have the Science to Create New Custom Materials

Insight Polymers & Compounders leverages its expertise in polymer chemistry to develop next-generation materials.

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Business Slowing? There's Still Plenty of Stuff to Do

There are things you may have put off when you were occupied with shipping parts to customers. Maybe it’s time to put some of them on the front burner.  

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Film Extrusion

Flexible, Multilayer Film Made With 50% Reclaim

Target for new film is mono-material packaging to replace difficult-to-recycle multi-material structures in applications that include stand-up pouches.  

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Extrusion

DuPont Buys Medical Product Manufacturer Spectrum Plastics

Purchase price of $1.75 billion for leading supplier of extruded, molded, and 3D printed medical components.  

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sustainability

Are You Providing Sustainable Materials?

Biopolymers? Bio-additives? Materials containing high levels of PCR? Materials regenerated via advanced recycling? Let the world of extrusion tap into your Know How by speaking at the Extrusion 2023 conference.  

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editorial

Latest Reshoring Numbers Could Bode Well for Processors

Jobs resulting from reshoring and foreign direct investment set record highs in 2022 after doing the same in 2021.  

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Extrusion

Medical Manufacturer Innovates with Additive Manufacturing and Extrusion Technology Hubs

Spectrum Plastics Group offers customers two technology hubs — one for extrusion, the other for additive manufacturing — to help bring ground-breaking products to market faster.

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Extrusion

Extrusion 2023 Conference: It’s All About Sustainability

Want to present on how your materials or equipment technology — or your processing expertise — can help extrusion processors achieve their goals to develop more sustainable products? You still have until May 22 to submit your abstracts.

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processor's edge

Online X-Ray Inspection Boosts Extrusion Quality

Höhle uses Sikora’s x-ray measuring systems for inline quality control of extruded microducts.

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Film Extrusion

VarDAR Moves to Bigger Facility in U.K.

Makers of novel air ring expands production capacity, adds new online vision system that detects gels and other flaws in film.  

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