This show hosted the highest number of exhibiting companies ever (2,407). After move in, the building was 76 million pounds heavier.

The Irvine, Calif. facility has tripled the local lab size and will offer increased technical support capabilities.

The event will offer solutions to the challenges that 3-D printing poses to the industry.

Through its memberships in America Makes, WMT&R joins other leading member organizations from industry, academia, government, non-government agencies, and workforce and economic development resources that are working together to innovate and accelerate additive manufacturing and 3-D printing.

The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Thermoforming Division has named Ian Strachan as Thermoformer of the Year.

Ray Products releases 2015 plastics manufacturing industry survey results.

The thermal properties of polymeric materials are important to the function of components and assemblies that will operate in cold or warm environments.

 In March 2015, the Alliance welcomed its newest member, the Asociación Nacional de Industrias del Plástico. 

Base salaries in the U.S. grew 0.7 percent from 2013 to $104,722 in calendar year 2014.

A surge in orders for plastics and metals have helped power the world’s largest economy past a global slowdown.