Every Link in the Chain

Within these pages, you hold a connection to every link in the plastics processing supply chain. The plastics industry is a dynamic, complicated ecosystem filled with specialized suppliers providing unique and customized products and services to help you convert pellets into product. Turn to this guide to help you map out that ecosystem in the most efficient manner possible.

Whether you are new to the industry or an old hand, use this Buyer’s Guide to inform your vendor decisions about the technologies and expertise you know you need to succeed and perhaps even some that you don’t.

Updated and curated to reflect changes inevitable in this dynamic space, whether it’s a new player offering new tech or an old player with a new name, all these key suppliers are organized by product category, which divvy up listings by primary processes; auxiliary equipment; molds; materials and more. You can also find all the suppliers featured in this guidebook listed alphabetically as well.

Keep this issue as a ready, tactile reference — any time you have a pressing supplier need, flip through its pages to a find your answer.

Tony Deligio