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Conveyor belting manufacturer efficiently recycles regrind with equipment that pays for itself
In an era of unpredictable material prices and routine supply chain challenges, it has never been more imperative to maximize resin usage in plastics processing. Re-entering regrind into production is one way to keep costs down and optimize material usage — and reduce the demand on natural resources. At one...
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How a leading manufacturer of plastic caps & lids transitioned to smarter plastics processing
The Mold-Rite Plastics (MRP) plant in Plattsburgh, NY, makes caps; millions and millions of caps, including the child-resistant caps for pharmaceutical bottles and the flip-top caps for liquid dispensing bottles like those used for hand-sanitizing solutions. Todd Duprey, Automation Supervisor, oversees a molding operation that has 90 molding machines running...