Tony Deligio Editor-in-Chief

3 Jan 2014

The Feng Ping Story and Western Companies in China

After five years of spending months at a time there, Jim Fiocchi doesn’t know if he’ll ever return to China.

business 31 Dec 2013

Most popular Knowledge Centers of 2013

No matter the process: everyone has to dry resin, everyone has to convey it, and everyone can use some training. Plastics Technology’s online Knowledge Centers were a popular destination among our readers in 2013 as they beefed up on a variety of topics.

30 Dec 2013

Most-viewed articles of 2013 at Plastics Technology

K technology previews, resin pricing, and tips and troubleshooting for injection molding fill times, mold temperature control, and twin-screw compounding, were among the most viewed articles for 2013 at Plastics Technology.

26 Dec 2013

Top blogs of 2013 at Plastics Technology

T-shirt bags (coming back vs. being banned); bioplastics with barrier, and an ultra-challenging lens application were among the blog topics that attracted the most page views in 2013 at Plastics Technology.

Postindustrial 11 Dec 2013

SPI and ACC partner on rigid plastics packaging, thermoforming

Can polyethylene terephthalate (PET) thermoforms enjoy the same recycling rates as their bottle brethren? Increasing thermoformed packaging reclaim, and that of other rigid plastics, will likely just be one goal of a new collaboration between SPI and ACC.

6 Dec 2013

Will mold makers be calling the shots soon in automotive?

North American mold makers might soon enjoy something they haven’t had in a very long time: leverage.

27 Nov 2013

Plastics suppliers ride a Korean wave along I-85

For David Lyons, the off-the-grid deep-sea-fishing vacation was a welcome and well-deserved break. Project manager for West Point, Georgia’s development authority, Lyons has spent the last few years swept up in the whirlwind of investments and projects accompanying the Korean automotive manufacturing beachhead that’s being established in the American Southeast.

Automotive 25 Nov 2013

Headlines from the K 2013 Show

Here’s just a taste of the innovations on display, a selection of the top headlines not covered in our September show preview.

22 Nov 2013

How do you consume media?

We live in an age of lists, as media outlets attempt to rearrange all the day’s events into a numbered format (even the assassination of President Kennedy). Inundated though we are, there are stories that that are better told with numbers.

19 Nov 2013

Red Star’s vertical integration goes to new heights

When a molder and mold maker adds machinery manufacturing to its repertoire, it brings new meaning to the oft-misused phrase “full-service supplier.” For Larwill, Indiana based Red Star Contract Manufacturing, the description is apt, especially as it seeks to ramp up its machine-building business.