Offering Employee Relocation Expenses

by Brittany Willes, Plastics Business As the job market becomes ever more competitive, recruiting the most qualified employees is essential. However, those employees may not...

Association Development Provides Entrepreneurial Master Class

by Dianna Brodine, Plastics Business Incorporated nearly 20 years ago, in 1996, the MAPP organization actually had its start two years earlier, growing from a...

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Manufacturers Association of Plastics Processors MAPP to Debut Online Resin Price Benchmarking System MAPP is excited to announce the development of a robust online resin benchmarking...

Change and Opportunity: Focus on Four Areas to Improve

by Laurie Harbour, Harbour Results, Inc. The 2015 calendar year certainly has started out with a bang for many processors. Business is up for most...

MAPP Survey Reports on 2015 Business Forecast

Plastics Business Nearly 85 percent of plastics processing executives are expecting their 2015 sales trends to increase during the next 12 months, according to the...

Automotive Insert Molding Drives Growth at Microplastics, Inc.

by Dianna Brodine, Plastics Business Growing complexity in the automotive, medical and electronic component industries is challenging molders across the country. Microplastics, Inc., in St....

Mobile Emissions and Fuel Economy Rev Up Lightweighting Initiatives

by Suzanne Cole, Miller Cole LLC The world is shifting into high gear on fuel economy. The US and Canada became the first countries to...

Make It Count at NPE2015

Plastics Business Professionals from every spectrum of the plastics industry and its vertical markets will assemble in Orlando, Florida, on March 23-27 to discover the...

Designing the Perfect SMED Cart

by Dianna Brodine, Plastics Business MAPP Completes SMED Cart Contest While the contest is over, the opportunity to learn from the entrants has just begun. Too...

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