End Markets
Wood On Plastics: Packaging: Growth Leader in 2011
Each quarter, the SPI’s Committee on Equipment Statistics and Processors’ Council survey their respective members and ask them to forecast future growth for the major end-markets for plastics.
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Processor Strategies - Royal Group Profile Maker Gives Environment The ‘Royal’ Treatment
When you’re already a leader in your industry, you might be tempted to simply stay the course and not worry about issues such as sustainability and carbon footprint.
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Wood On Plastics: Electronics: the Place to Be in 2010
After a few years of garnering only moderate profits, the U.S. electronics industry caught fire in 2010.
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PMC Proves It’s Not Too Late To Pioneer in Medical Molding
Molding medical devices is a high-end business that has proven more resistant to economic swings and to foreign competition than some other plastics markets.
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Wood On Plastics: Medical Market Regains Health
U.S. production of medical equipment and supplies will grow at an annual rate of 1% to 2% in 2010.
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Materials: Automotive PP Compound Combines Glass & Wheat Fibers
A. Schulman Inc. in Akron, Ohio, commercialized the first wheat-fiber/PP compound last year to replace 20% talc-filled PP in an automotive part
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Largest Aluminum Injection Mold Ever
Unique Tool & Gauge, Windsor, Ont. (unique-tool.com), completed a production injection mold machined from the largest block of tooling-grade aluminum ever forged.
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Wood on Plastics - Electronics Remain a Growth Leader
The growth rate for the U.S. electronics industry decelerated during the second half of 2010. Growth was still positive, and it was certainly better than for other types of durable goods,
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THERMOFORMING: New Roll-Fed Systems Boost Output & Flexibility
Continuous in-line packaging systems headed up the K 2010 thermoforming news as suppliers launched a range of roll-fed systems with greater capacity, more flexibility, and improved automation.
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BLOW MOLDING: Electric Machines Starting to Purr
Growing use of electric drives in blow molding machinery gathered steam at the K 2010 show, as suppliers rolled out new all-electric and hybrid models for extrusion blow, injection-blow, and stretch-blow production.
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