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Are Fillers and Pigments Impacting Your Processing Parameters?
As parts are loaded with higher and higher levels of fillers, pigments, and more, processors don’t always consider the impact these additives have on production.
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Taiwan’s ‘Time is Coming’ For All-Electric Machines
Taiwan’s plastics machinery market is a player on the global stage, except for one segment—all-electric machines. The recent Taipei Plas show suggests that’s about to change.
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Steering Clear of Culture Clashes in International Business
Often times when companies seek to expand their business overseas they think in terms of geographic proximity but what about cultural proximity?
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EPS Foam Manufacturer Molds On Despite Environmental Attacks
If plastic bags are Public Enemy No. 1 for environmental activists, EPS foam might be No. 1A, despite some very green credentials.
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Thermoforming: The Shape of Things to Come?
Despite designer ignorance and competing processes, thermoforming is thriving. Example A: the continued growth of its long-running SPE-sponsored event.
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Don’t Let Your New Strategy Succumb to Your Old Culture
A well-conceived strategy can help your company overcome many external challenges but there is one adversary it will fall to every time—an internal culture at cross purposes.
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NPE2015: The Right Show at the Right Time
In recent years, plastics trade shows in North America have sometimes been written off as out of fashion and in decline. But in around 140 days, a giant plastics trade show in Orlando seems likely to quash emphatically any notions of irrelevance for such industry events.
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Taiwan Plastics Machinery Sector Balances Cost/Technology
Locked geographically between China and Japan, Taiwan’s plastics machinery sector also finds itself sandwiched between the higher-tech higher-cost machines of nation’s like Japan and the lower-tech lower-cost technology of China.
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Will Your Future Shipments of PE Come From North Dakota?
Do North Dakota’s plans to build a $3 billion cracking facility with annual capacity for 1.5 million metric tons of polyethylene (3.3 billion pounds) reflect a tipping point in the shale oil/gas revolution?
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Will NPE2015 Challenge NPE2000 In Size?
With a little over five months until the show opens, NPE2015 is inching closer to matching the year 2000 edition—the largest ever NPE in terms of exhibit space.
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What Are the Most Important Issues Facing Processors?
Find out what the top issues facing processors are (hint: quality, energy use and the skills gap are involved), plus see reader suggestions on how to improve NPE.
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Mission Statements Vs. Business Plans
A hotel conference room, management brainstorming and a new mission statement do not a strategic business plan make.
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