Last month's Simple Science covered heat, the physics division most important to extruders. It's the countable energy that softens the material and makes it extrudable. If you haven't read it, it's ...

Extrusion expert and PlasticsToday contributor Allan Griff has announced two webinars this month and face-to-face one-day seminars on extrusion fundamentals in Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston later ...

Angel investors understand the high stakes of funding new technologies. The journey is fraught with financial, technical and market risks—but when a groundbreaking well-designed innovation meets the ...

Mid South Extrusion Inc. is spending nearly $5 million to add a polyethylene film production line at the company's facility in Monroe, La. A $4.9 million investment to fund a 12th blown film line will ...

Collaborative mechanical recycling effort designed to support “a circular economy for flexible packaging and films in the Upper Midwest.” The MBOLD effort will lead to a plant with the capacity to ...

EFS-plastics, a Listowel, Ontario-based plastics reclaimer, intends to invest around $17 million in recycling technology upgrades at its plants in Hazelton, Pennsylvania, and Lethbridge, Alberta, with ...