Machinery builders for processing plastics to manufacture medical devices are putting a spotlight on robots and the extrusion of complicated medical tubing this week at MD&M West 2025. Sumitomo (SHI) ...

Editor?s note: Chris Rauwendaal is a designer, consultant, and seminar instructor who has written extensively on process engineering and extrusion topics. Part 1 of this article (PM&A Nov./Dec. 2002) ...

Plastics Extrusion Machinery LLC, which makes downstream extrusion equipment for PVC pipe and custom profiles, has acquired technology from BellTech Machinery, a downstream equipment maker in Costa ...

Editor?s note: The author, Donald E. De Laney, a consultant in polymer process rheology, worked with GE for 17 years and has worked with Dynisco over the past eight years. The plastics compounding and ...

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 ...