Modern Plastics Worldwide is the only plastics publication dedicated to covering global business management issues, key technologies, and the latest manufacturing management trends for the international plastics industry.

Topics range across all processes, including injection, extrusion, blowmolding, thermoforming, blown film, cast film, and compounding.

Modern Plastics Worldwide also covers the latest technology developments in materials, design, equipment, processing, and applications from a business strategy perspective, marketing information on new markets, industry trends, economic influences, forecasts and more. (Tradepub.com)

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10 Cover Story: Medical disposables
This month, MPW examines the medical disposables market, which is necessarily evolving in response to the economy, changing care patterns, and plastics’ successful track record.

14 Processing Trends
Injection molding: How would like your soft foam—thick, thin, or both? Novel slide mold makes it happen. Plus: In extrusion, coreless winding comes of age as waste and cost bear down; Highly filled compounds are gaining increasing favor via improved dispersion and lowered costs.

25 Product Focus: Pelletizing
Without perfect pellets, a processor has little to no chance of success, which means a number of signifi cant, recent developments are good news for processors in lean times.

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PC window glazing technologies continue moving forward
If slow and steady wins the race, then we can start waving the checkered flag now under the presumption that polycarbonate window glazing—after many years of development still a ‘next great thing’—is starting to limber up and hit its commercial stride.

Rapid prototyping slows for some, gathers speed elsewhere
Globally, the use of additive manufacturing (rapid prototyping and rapid manufacturing) grew well through 2008 in many countries, but there were some surprising downturns including very slow growth in the U.S. and a dramatic drop in new installations in Japan.

Q/A equipment for micro tools now available
Processing of micro-sized applications has grown by leaps and bounds in the past decade and seems certain to continue doing so. One German manufacturer claims to have developed the first Q/A system for proofing precision micro-sized machine tooling.

Blaige & Company report: Plastics M&A shows little sign of slowing
Blaige & Company recorded 244 plastics-industry M&A deals worldwide in the first six months of 2009, off only 2% from the same period in 2008. Not bad, all things considered, though more deals lately are for distressed companies.

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