FLORENCE, KY. — KraussMaffei Corp.'s open house drew about 200 people to Florence June 13, where they saw a coextruded window extrusion line, recycling equipment and injection presses molding ...

Extruder Intek Plastics, based in Hastings, MN, has acquired injection molding company Five Star Plastics, located in Eau Claire, WI. Both companies are family-owned. Intek said that the acquisition ...

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 ...

Extrusion and injection molding are the most important conversion techniques used by the thermoplastics processing industry. Certain factors need to be considered before a thermoplastics material is ...

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. There are so many factors to consider when determining whether to upgrade an older plastics injection molding machine ...

About 50 billion plastic screw caps are made annually, and demand is rising all the time. In the game between the two rival production processes, neither holds all the aces. When it comes to choosing ...

Shibaura Machine India (SMI) is a subsidiary of Japan’s Shibaura Machine, the leading manufacturer of high-precision injection moulding machine in the world, has inaugurated its Unit 2 factory ...