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Annual Benchmarking Survey of Injection Molders Released
Plastics Technology Top Shops Benchmarking Survey provided both unanimous responses and divided results, but pervasive throughout is the sense of an industry still grappling with the aftermath of 2020’s global pandemic.
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COVID-19’s Long Shadow
More than four years on, there are aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic that linger in their impacts to the plastics market and are made visible in our annual survey.
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New, Streamlined Injection Molding Benchmarking Survey Opens
The free, anonymous Top Shops Benchmarking Survey has been divided into core questions and modules, giving companies the option to complete a shorter questionnaire.
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Top Shops Benchmarking Report: Molding at the Margin
In a world of rising costs and uncertain market conditions, the ability to wring maximum profits from existing business was truly the mark of a Top Shop in 2022.
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Make Your Mark: Free Benchmarking Survey Remains Open
You have until April 30 to fill out your 2023 Plastics Technology Top Shops Benchmarking Survey, with no cost to you and a free analysis of your operations’ performance upon completion.
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Top Shops Time: Take the Injection Molding Benchmarking Survey Today
Plastics Technology has once again opened its annual survey of injection molders — participate in the anonymous benchmarking questionnaire today and reward your company with a free customized report.
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Sharpen Your Pencils: Participate In ‘Top Shops' Benchmarking Survey
The free, anonymous survey of injection molders is open for responses, and all shops that complete the questionnaire will receive a customized report of the results. Honorees also will be recognized in the magazine.
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2022 Top Shops Benchmarking Survey: Cost Conquerors
Higher costs for materials, wages, utilities and more, coupled with delivery difficulties for both incoming supplies and outgoing production, posed unique challenges to 2022’s class of Top Shops.
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Top Shops Adapt, Evolve and Overcome
Like a stress test on steroids, the pandemic took full measure of Plastics Technology’s Top Shops as it exacerbated or revealed preexisting conditions around labor, the supply chain and more.
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Top Shops: Benchmarking Injection Molding in a Pandemic Year
At the start of 2021, as it does every year, Plastics Technology asked injection molders to look back on the year prior and take stock of their operations. The only difference this time: COVID-19.
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