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Omri Schulman is a materials scientist with a master’s degree in materials science and engineering and more than eight years of R&D experience spanning plastics, polymers and additive manufacturing.

Invista announced the signing of an MoU (memorandum of understanding) with Epoch Biodesign, a U.K.-based company that uses synthetic enzymes to process mixed waste plastic. The agreement is aimed at ...

Stäubli F luid Connectors ’ latest multicoupling system, SMI209, was designed to meet the quality, safety and process control demands of the medical injection molding industry. “Medical molding is ...

Producing plastics parts with undercuts presents distinct challenges for molders. Undercuts are protrusions or recessions in a part that prevent the mold, after the part is formed, from sliding away ...

Melt flow rate testing can be characterized as the Rodney Dangerfield of material test methods—it gets no respect. People from all parts of the industry downplay the value of the test or denigrate its ...

The intensification ratio is equal to the ratio of the effective areas of the hydraulic ram to that of the screw check valve. Since those values often are not readily available, the intensification ...

Polyethylene has been around as a commercial material for a little over 70 years. It was one of the early developments in synthetic thermoplastics. Given its long history, it could be assumed that we ...

In our 2024 Top Shops injection molding benchmarking survey, Philip Katen of Plastikos talked about a “grind-it-out” phase for processors working out post-COVID inventory overcorrections. In 2025’s ...

At last fall’s K 2025 fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, a Cyprus-based builder of injection stretch-blow molding machines (ISBM) showed off its latest developments in PET containers of up to 1,000 liters ...

Prices for all volume resins through the fourth quarter are generally expected to be flat if not down, particularly as companies enter contract negotiations for 2026. This trend will continue, despite ...