PET preform molders who want leverage on materials pricing may love new melt-to-preform plant designs that effectively turn them into their own suppliers. Savings of at least 10% are expected. Two ...

Lovers of injection molding — and automation — will find manufacturing nirvana at NPE 2015, when the Orange County Convention Center becomes a giant, modern plastics factory for one week. The market ...

(MENAFN- IMARC Group) Setting up a PET preform manufacturing facility necessitates a detailed market analysis alongside granular insights into various operational aspects, including unit processes, ...

Owens-Illinois Inc. is launching a pioneering effort to compression mold billions of preforms on proprietary equipment that the company said could lower production costs significantly. The project - ...

AFTER A DECADE OF ANNUAL GROWTH RATES of more than 10 percent, the global rate of demand for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers has slowed somewhat, to about 8 percent. But that growth ...