As global demand for efficient, precise, and increasingly versatile plastic processing continues to expand, extrusion machinery has become an important part of manufacturing infrastructure across ...

The industry-wide trend towards purchasing of plastic film extrusion lines able to process 5 or more layers continues, according to officials at extrusion systems manufacturer Reifenhäuser Kiefel ...

Increasingly smaller medical devices require tighter tolerances that make extrusion process control more difficult. Photos courtesy of TEEL PLASTICS INC. As medical devices get smaller and tolerances ...

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 ...

Lincoln, R.I.-based Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp., the North American headquarters of the 150-year-old W&H Group, has been contributing to recent growth for the family-owned parent company. About a ...

Have a question about plastics extrusion or the science of plastics? Send it along to Allan Griff, independent consulting engineer and plastics extrusion expert. Already the host of our well-received ...

The future of recycling and extrusion technology is being developed in Laatzen, Lower Saxony (Germany). In its new, modern plant, KraussMaffei is not only developing new solutions for the plastics and ...

A bench made from recycled PPE waste, built using beams extruded in-house. This was the creators’ largest project using their ...

Penn College Workforce Development’s seven polymer workshops drew 76 participants from 15 states, and an eighth workshop in ...