Kickstart: Crocs adding more green to its colorful shoes

Crocs may not be your footwear of choice, but the Colorado shoe company with the comfy foam clogs is set on becoming the greenest shoemaker out there by using bio-based… Read more

The difference between die casting and stamping

Stamping is a process in which iron, stainless steel or copper sheets are punched out of parts with a punch. The stamping worker puts the iron sheet into the metal… Read more

Uniform Color donates school supplies

Materials supplier Uniform Color of Holland, Mich., recently collected school supplies and delivered them to local schools.Items collected by the Uniform Color team included 68 boxes of colored pencils, 48… Read more

How To Prevent Silicone Products From Getting Mouldy?

Recently, the weather contrast in many areas has been one of heavy rain and heat. It's a season when it's easy to catch a cold! During this season, many products… Read more

Kickstart: Beyond the paycheck

For CEOs, base salaries often are only a small part of their pay.There are stock awards and bonuses that often make up more of their compensation than their official paycheck.… Read more

$24M separates the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in latest CEO pay ranking

Plastics News intern Kelly Arndt takes over Hollee Keller’s spot for this week to talk CEO compensation.This week marks the annual CEO issue where current and retired CEOs are profiled. As… Read more

Clone of $24M separates the No. 1 and 2 spot in latest CEO pay ranking

Plastics News intern Kelly Arndt takes over Hollee Keller’s spot for this week to talk CEO compensation.This week marks the annual CEO issue where current and retired CEOs are profiled. As… Read more

Kickstart: The future hybrid office

Herman Miller Inc. knows that you’ve been working at home a lot, and that you expect you’ll still being working at home — at least part of the time —… Read more

Operation Clean Sweep Blue adds six members

Six more firms have joined Operation Clean Sweep Blue, an elite level of the voluntary Operation Clean Sweep Plastic resin loss prevention program.OCS is organized by the Plastics Industry Association… Read more

Kickstart: Enough already

It’s been a long, long week out there for everyone. I wish we could say that things are about to get easier, but obviously, things may get even more complicated… Read more

Kickstart: Ida continues to swamp US as Gulf Coast awaits recovery

As the remnants of Hurricane Ida continue to hit the U.S. far from the Gulf Coast — with record flash floods in New York and tornadoes in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey… Read more

Kickstart: So much for retirement

Well that retirement didn’t last long.Less than a week after LyondellBasell Industries announced that CEO Bob Patel would retire at the end of 2021, Standard Industries Holdings announced the 53-year-old… Read more

Are There Any Advantages Of Silicone Fresh-keeping Bags?

silicone products factories can make various types of silicone products, such as silicone ice trays, silicone spatulas, silicone brushes, silicone spatulas, as well as silicone fresh-keeping bags, silicone lunch boxes… Read more

Kickstart: The unknowns of Ida's impact

Here is one thing we know about how Hurricane Ida will affect the U.S. resin market: It will hit supplies, delivery and prices for materials.How much? For how long? How… Read more

Kickstart: Katrina, Ida and your company's most important resource

About 17 years ago, I had a chance to visit the Gulf Coast as part of a story on the growth of the plastics industry in Mississippi. A year and… Read more

A global response to a global pandemic

The global pandemic has presented manufacturing and logistical issues for companies all over the world. For MingheCast, the challenge has been to maintain the supply of components to critical industries… Read more

What Should We Know About Silicone Ice Tray?

silicone ice trays belong to the category of silicone kitchenware in silicone products. It is a mold made of silica gel raw materials for ice cubes. It has the high-quality… Read more

Kickstart: Manufacturing and tax policy

ProPublica recently dug into the numbers behind in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017. Essentially, it notes that some people were… Read more

What Are The Advantages Of Silicone Coin Purses?

Nowadays, silicone coin purses are very popular, they can easily store all kinds of things and hold small things, and they are humanized and have a high resistance to water,… Read more

Is it time for manufacturers to embrace vaccine mandates?

With the delta variant surging, should manufacturing companies and industry organizations require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19?The National Association of Manufacturers has decided, at least for itself, the answer… Read more