Association News
MAPP Announces All 2019 Plant Tours
MAPP is excited to announce all plant tour events for MAPP members in 2019. Plant tours are key events...
Going All In on Manufacturing Day at Crescent Industries
by Lara Copeland, contributing editor
Plastics Business
“I had no idea manufacturing was this cool.”
“I had no idea how clean the factory was going to be.”
“I...
Reducing Scrap at Plastech Corporation
by Lara Copeland, contributing editor
Plastics Business
Frandsen Corporation, North Branch, Minnesota, has a family of businesses in the manufacturing and banking sectors. Each year and...
Learning from the Best: Building a Better Training Program
by Elizabeth Stevens, contributing writer
Plastics Business
In the plastics industry, as in every industry, people are among a company’s most valuable assets. Three companies in...
Quote, Price and Close Work Orders the Right Way
by Nick Knight, Senior Director of Customer Services
Global Shop Solutions
Every manufactured part has a story – the story of how something is made, how...
Increase Profits and Opportunities for Growth with Data-Driven Process Cooling
by Al Fosco, Marketing Manager
Frigel North America
Business-savvy plastics processors have long leveraged process cooling to gain a competitive advantage. And now, with readily available...
How to Become a Plastics Guru: What You Need to Know
by Jeremy Williams, Trainer/Consultant
RJG, Inc.
There are those who are good at what they do, and then there are those who are the absolute best....
2018 Benchmarking conference Brings 600 Manufacturing Leaders to Indianapolis
The Manufacturers Association for Plastics Processors (MAPP) brought nearly 600 manufacturing professionals to Indianapolis from October 10-12, 2018. MAPP held the record-breaking 2018 Benchmarking...
If You Can’t Convince Them, Confuse Them
by Chris Kuehl, managing director
Armada Corporate Intelligence
It often has been remarked there are two things that nobody should ever watch being made – sausage...
Plastics Processors Continue to Boost Compensation for Workers
by Ashley (Turrell) Burleson, membership and analytics manager
MAPP
When comparing wage data from 2017 to 2018, more than 75% of jobs in the US plastics...
