Gardner Business Index moved up slightly at year-end with positive fundamentals signaling growth potential in 2026.

Borealis has announced a 49 million-euro investment to increase production of Borstar Nextension polypropylene (PP) at its site in Burghausen, Germany. This will expand commercial production of single ...

Traditional paint booth operations add significant time, capital investment and logistical challenges to production.

At last fall’s K 2025 fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, a Cyprus-based builder of injection stretch-blow molding machines (ISBM) showed off its latest developments in PET containers of up to 1,000 liters ...

The facility, which includes 88,000 square feet of manufacturing space, will support scalable production, cleanroom ...

German investment firms to buy European Petrochemical business as well as Engineering Thermoplastics business in the Americas and Europe.

Automotive manufacturers are under increasing pressure to deliver premium surface quality while reducing process complexity, cost and environmental impact. Traditional paint booth operations add ...

Automotive manufacturers are under increasing pressure to deliver premium surface quality while reducing process complexity, cost and environmental impact. Traditional paint booth operations add ...

In our 2024 Top Shops injection molding benchmarking survey, Philip Katen of Plastikos talked about a “grind-it-out” phase for processors working out post-COVID inventory overcorrections. In 2025’s ...

Prices for all volume resins through the fourth quarter are generally expected to be flat if not down, particularly as companies enter contract negotiations for 2026. This trend will continue, despite ...

Global private equity firm I Squared Capital has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority interest in ENTEK Technology Holdings LLC, a manufacturer of battery separators and twin-screw ...

At K 2025, Progressive Components will introduce the latest version of its ProFile unified platform, which combines asset management, real-time data and key performance indicator (KPI) reporting from ...