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  • Understanding Today’s Volatile Economy

    By Chris Kuehl, managing director, Armada Corporate Intelligence The textbook definition of volatile says it all: “likely to change rapidly and unpredictably – especially for the worse.” It has been…
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    Tame Out-of-Control Mold Storage with Engineered Racks and Cranes

    By Graeme Sands, general manager, Globeius One of the pillars of efficient, productive injection molding operations is the orderly and safe storage of all those intricate and expensive molds. Conscientious…
    Read More Tame Out-of-Control Mold Storage with Engineered Racks and Cranes
  • Creating Clarity: The Importance of Defining the Ideal Customer

    By Shelly Otenbaker, president, WayPoint Marketing Communications In today’s plastics processing landscape, activity is not the same as progress. Injection molders and their suppliers are investing more than ever in…
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    Plastics Manufacturers Facing New Cost Pressure: Energy

    By Liam Kelly, commercial solar account executive, Artisun Solar “When’s the last time you changed something in your business before you had to change something in your business?” said MAPP…
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  • Champion Plastics, Crescent Industries, Viking Plastics: Automation and Lights-Out Production

    By Liz Stevens, writer, Plastics Business Automation in plastics manufacturing is evolving from isolated tasks to fully integrated production strategies designed to reduce labor dependency, improve consistency and increase capacity…
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    APMC Automates with Integrated Innovations

    Many Manufacturers Association for Plastics Processors (MAPP) members are in the vanguard of companies exploring, embracing and implementing advanced automation in plastics processing. One outstanding MAPP member is striving to…
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  • From Chaos to Control: How MAPP Members Are Taking Charge of MRO Spending with Grainger

    In the world of manufacturing, most companies can quickly identify their biggest cost drivers: labor, raw materials and energy. But tucked behind the scenes, in storerooms and tool cribs, lurks…
    Read More From Chaos to Control: How MAPP Members Are Taking Charge of MRO Spending with Grainger
  • Four Drivers of the 2026 Economy

    To be fair, there likely are many additional drivers depending on the industry and line of business, but for this article, the focus is on the four drivers that stand…
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Plastics Business is a quarterly magazine with a distribution of 12,500, targeting the plastics processing business executive. It is distributed to corporate management as well as plant and production managers involved with all types of plastics processing and manufacturing, primarily in the United States. Learn more »

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MAPP was started in August 1996 as a not-for-profit trade association — by processors, for processors. MAPP now has over 1,000 industry executives in member companies actively benchmarking to improve their operations and communicating with one another to solve problems. Learn more »



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