Sheet Extrusion

Former Laminating Exec Starts Own Sheet Business

Apex 'fills void' by furnishing high-gloss sheet for laminating.

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Thermoforming

Are You Ready to Take on the World?

Plastics Technology’s exclusive benchmarking study reveals the tactics of processors who just might be in that class.

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Blow Molding

Top of the Class: Meet 2015’s World-Class Processors

Plastics Technology’s inaugural group of World-Class Processors—selected through an exclusive benchmarking survey—spans geographies, markets, processes, and materials. Diverse in size and capabilities, these companies have one key trait in common: efficiency. How do you stack up in comparison?

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PTi to Expand Headquarters

The sheet extrusion machinery supplier will invest $10 million in an expansion that will nearly double manufacturing space and capacity at its Aurora, Ill. headquarters.

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Sheet Extrusion

New Roll Lock-Out System Protects Sheet Operators

First-of-a-kind system prevents rolls from closing accidentally.

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Sheet Extrusion

National Plastics and Seals Buys Innovative Acrylic Design

Companies combine to form "one-stop" source for plastic fabrication.

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best practices

Why & When Should You Re-Crystallize PET Scrap?

Whether you’re blow molding PET bottles or extruding APET sheet, you’ll produce amorphous scrap in the process. How you handle it will impact your production costs. Re-crystallizing it will help.

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Film Extrusion

Achieving Zero Waste: Two Processors Prove It’s Possible

Working with an Ohio-based recycler, two film and sheet processors go landfill-free.

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Film Extrusion

Davis-­Standard Buys Gloucester Engineering

Acquisition will expand Davis' blown film and aftermarket business worldwide.

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Film Extrusion

Keep Extruder Barrels Aligned…And Production on Target

A misaligned barrel causes a lot of trouble. Laser alignment is being used now to keep things on the straight and narrow.

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