by Greg Kozera, director of marketing and sales, Shale Crescent USA A new study by Shale Crescent USA and Jobs Ohio directly shows the United States is the most profitable place to manufacture plastics products. For the past four decades, US manufacturers have migrated overseas to China primarily due to cheaper foreign labor and a decreasing US energy supply. Times have … [Read more...] about US is More Profitable Than China for Plastics-Based Manufacturing
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What’s New and What’s Possible in Additive Manufacturing for Plastics, Metal and More
by Liz Stevens, writer, Plastics Business 3D printing has come a long way from its origins in the 1980s when researchers, inventors and entrepreneurs in labs and garages imagined ground-breaking methods and built the first machines. At first a novelty and then embraced primarily by hobbyists, additive manufacturing has matured and become a workhorse in a growing variety of … [Read more...] about What’s New and What’s Possible in Additive Manufacturing for Plastics, Metal and More
Techniques for a Successful Mold-Building Partnership
by Gene Mussel, director, Harbour Results, Inc. Today, plastic processors have many challenges to manage to maintain a successful business – from raw material price increases to labor shortages – and, several of these issues are out of leadership’s control. However, one opportunity to drive efficiency and profitability improvement – and can be controlled – is the relationship … [Read more...] about Techniques for a Successful Mold-Building Partnership
Finding and Assessing New Business Opportunities
by Nicole Mitchell, editor, Plastics Business Manufacturing companies across the US are struggling to find the right new business opportunities for their teams – and those new opportunities have to be weighed against current capacity due to labor shortages, increased product cost, transportation issues and more. In the last two years, manufacturers have had to step back and … [Read more...] about Finding and Assessing New Business Opportunities
When Customers Hold Their Hands Up: Lead Response
by Troy Harrison, author of “Sell Like You Mean It!” In businesses around the country, conversations about prospecting (outbound lead generation) and inbound lead generation are happening nearly every day. What isn’t spoken about much is what happens to the lead after it comes in. Many times, incoming leads either are mishandled or not handled at all, and then the marketing … [Read more...] about When Customers Hold Their Hands Up: Lead Response