Dow has appointed Karen S. Carter, currently chief operating officer, as chief executive officer, effective July 1, 2026. Carter will also join Dow's board of directors at that time. Dow announced ...

A familiar name in the domestic blow molding machinery business has taken up a new post. Chuck Flammer is now VP of machine sales for Uniloy Inc., supporting U.S. and Canadian markets. Flammer has ...

Sepro Group has redesigned its robot line for injection molding machines with up to 900 tons of clamping force. Debuting at K 2025, the new S-Line robots will replace the three-axis S5 Line and ...

The Society of Plastics Engineers’ (SPE) Extrusion Division is holding a conference in June focusing on processing optimization. The SPE Extrusion Optimization TopCon is slated for June 16-18 at the ...

This is the most challenging resin pricing column I’ve had to assemble, starting with the U.S. Supreme Court’s February ruling that invalidated most of President Trump’s broad emergency-based import ...

Historically, lengthy computation times created bottlenecks, limiting the number of design variations engineers can practically explore during the development process. The Cadmould AI Solver removes ...

Industrial Speeds Required New technical developments that support KHS Supreme include scaling up the InnoPET Plasmax coating systems to industrial speeds of 60,000 bottles per hour, up from 48,000 ...

In a previous article, we briefly discussed the influence of time as the second important factor in the mechanical response of polymers. The flip side of time is strain rate. The rate of loading for a ...

Brett Greenhalgh will step down as president of the U.S. subsidiary KraussMaffei Corp. (KMC; Florence, Kentucky) at the end of May 2026 and be replaced by John Fini. Currently VP, digital solutions ...

Producing plastics parts with undercuts presents distinct challenges for molders. Undercuts are protrusions or recessions in a part that prevent the mold, after the part is formed, from sliding away ...

The blown film industry has evolved from monolayer film structures to multilayer ones for a variety of food and non-food packaging applications. Depending on the product requirements, a wide array of ...

FIG 1 The sim link interface for data exchanges between the simulation program and Engel injection molding machine surmounts the data barrier and simplifies collaboration between simulation experts ...