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COVER STORY

The Sporting Life

Polymers and composites are enhancing athletes’ performances and making sporting events safer for them – as well as for the fans

By Mike Tolinski

 

Innovating Inside the Mold

Creativity is popping inside the injection mold. Technology is enabling new in-mold functions, and leading to advances in heating, cooling, decorating and hardening techniques.

By Jan Schut

 

SPE Rotomolding Update

The diverse rotomolding process continues to show robust growth, due to various processing advances and its ability to help get products to market quickly. Learn how the some experts view the future.

By Geoff Giordano

AN APPRECIATION

Remembering Michael J. Tolinski

Plastics Engineering Managing Editor Mike Tolinski was taken from us far too soon. In this column, we remember Mike as a writer, editor, artist, humanitarian, engineer and so much more.

By Sue Milazzo Wojnicki

 

PLANT VISIT

Penn Color’s Framework for Growth

Doylestown, Pa.-based color and additives compounder Penn Color is expanding production capacity, investing heavily in R&D, and going green with its latest facility.

By Jennifer Markarian

 

ANTEC RECAP

Making (Three-Dimensional) Connections

This year’s ANTEC Indianapolis 2016 featured 550 presentations, 75 exhibitors, several prestigious awards, and nearly 1,400 attendees, plus a bevy of insights into additive manufacturing and technical developments that will help shape the plastics industry of tomorrow. Read all about it.

By Mike Tolinski

QUESTION EVERYTHING …

Pressure Loss Studies: Reassessing their real value on today’s shop floor

In this first edition of a regular new column, injection molding consultant John Beaumont wonders out loud about the real value of pressure loss studies in many instances on today’s shop floor.

By John Beaumont

 

Can Plastic Pipes Help Fix Our Water Infrastructure?

In this second of two articles on the subject, the ACC lays out a compelling case for greater use of PVC pipe to help fix the costly infrastructure problem plaguing U.S. drinking and wastewater systems.

By The American Chemistry Council

 

INSIDE SPI

Plastic Packaging’s Food-Saving Role; The FLiP Files

In this two-part column, SPI reports briefly on the key message about plastics packaging and food preservation from its Flexible Film & Bag Conference, and then also offers its latest in “The FLiP Files” via a Q&A interview with Beth Trenor, regulatory affairs specialist with Milliken & Company.

By SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association

DEPARTMENTS

Industry News

Briefs about the passing of Dr. A. Nelson Wright, plus news from Milacron, 3M, Lehigh Technologies, HERA Holding, Battenfeld-Cincinnati, DayGlo, Guill Tool, Branson Ultrasonics, and Kraiburg TPE.

 

Industry Patents

By Dr. Roger Corneliussen

 

Energy-Saving Tip

By Dr. Robin Kent

 

Upcoming Industry Events

 

Market Place

 

Advertiser Index 


About the cover:

The bottom of the Nike Superfly Spike that will be worn by sprinters at the Rio Olympics.(photo courtesy of Nike, Inc. and cover designed by SPE MarComm Team; see the original photo and our cover story).

 

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