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Plastics Business is a magazine targeting the plastics processing business executive. It is distributed to corporate management, plant managers and production managers involved in all types of plastics processing and manufacturing.

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Conquering Complexity at Plastikos
With an astounding amount of complexity driving its operations, the success of Plastikos’ 105 employees begins with a solid training program that has admittedly been ‘ramped up’ over the past five years.
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In-line or Off-line Decorating: A 10-Step Analysis 
Should we run our decorating system in-line with our molding machine? Furthermore, should we run our molding machine and decorating system in-line with our assembly machine and subsequent packaging system? These are significant questions that are deliberated when proposing the lowest possible unit cost system that will operate in an efficient and economical fashion. More...


Supply Chain: What You May Not be Thinking About
Most organizations are unprepared for a major supply chain disruption. Companies don’t have supply chain continuity plans, they don’t ask themselves the right questions and basically have a policy of, “I hope that doesn’t happen to us.” If Japan has taught us anything, it should be that hope is not a plan.
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Tekleen Develops Low Pressure Water Filter
A new line of fully automatic self-cleaning water filters from Tekleen Automatic Filters, of Los Angeles, CA, are ideal for a variety of plastic processing applications. The LPF Series Filters, which can work with pressure as low as 15psi, save time and money, and utilize new screen cleaning technology called Tekrinse. The filters range from 1”to 36” line size and can filter down to 2 micron. See Tekleen at NPE 2012 in booth 3992 at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL. For more information, visit www.tekleen.com, email info@tekleen.com or call 800.336.1942.

 

Conair Doubles Capacity of Material-Handling Control
The FLX material-handling control system from The Conair Group, Cranberry Township, PA, now is available in a new larger configuration to serve up to 64 loaders and 20 vacuum conveying pumps. This top-end capacity is double that of the original FLX system. Designed to be affordable and easy to install and expand, a processor could start with an FLX system to manage just eight loaders and two pumps (one primary pump and one back-up pump), and then increase capacity and capabilities in manageable increments when necessary, simply by adding input and output cards. The system can include such high-level functions as multi-source/multi-destination loading, purge, ratio loading, ratio loading with purge, reverse conveying for regrind recovery, loader fill sensing, output sharing between FLX control panels, Ethernet communication and more. For more information, visit www.conairgroup.com.

Chroma Expands its Production Capabilities
Chroma Corporation, McHenry, IL, has added six new extruders to its production facility to enable the company to offer quicker turn around and shorter lead times on the continually growing small order segment of the business, particularly in the area of small lot color concentrates. The company also recently completed a laboratory expansion that more than doubled the size of its color development lab and added six new 38-ton injection molding machines. In the past several years, the thermoplastic compound raw material provider has introduced photoluminescent products, antimicrobials and glow putty. For more information, visit www.chromacolors.com.

Frigel Announces Joint Venture to Begin Manufacturing in Asia
Florence, Italy-based Frigel Firenze SpA has announced its intention to form a joint venture with Hong Kong-based Chudleigh-Sutch Technologies Co., Ltd. and Osaka, Japan-based Matsui Mfg. Co., Ltd. to form Frigel Asia Pacific Co., Ltd. The new company will be based in Bangkok, Thailand and will provide centralized sales, service and manufacturing support for all of Asia Pacific. In addition to Frigel’s industry leading expertise in the design and manufacture of process water cooling equipment, Frigel Asia Pacific will add Chudleigh-Sutch’s turn-key systems and customized automation handling equipment product lines to Frigel’s global product portfolio. In addition to forming a joint venture to commence operations in Asia Pacific, Frigel has recently announced plans to begin manufacturing in both North and South America, to complement their existing established sales and service channels. For more information, visit www.frigel.it.