The majority of the 300 million tons of plastic produced every year isn’t recycled, and recycling that does happen typically happens at an industrial scale in factories using equipment that can cost ...

ROSEMONT, ILL. — While it may seem like injection molding is the only way to produce caps and closures, it turns out to be far from the truth. Compression molding is offering many companies another ...

Düsseldorf, Germany — More than 65 percent of caps in the plastics industry are made by compression molding, according to machine maker Sacmi Imola S.C., which aims to increase that market share for ...

About 50 billion plastic screw caps are made annually, and demand is rising all the time. In the game between the two rival production processes, neither holds all the aces. When it comes to choosing ...

The SOTOP Recycling team, consisting of Manuel Maeder, Benjamin Krause, and Nadina Maeder, have developed an innovative automated injection molding machine that uses waste plastic to create new ...

If all goes as forecast, this summer processor Owens-Illinois will begin commercial processing of compression molded PET preforms. The Toledo, OH company says it has taken shipment of a compression ...