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K 2025 Launches AI Chatbot To Optimize Show Experience
K Assistant is designed to help attendees navigate hall plans, explore exhibitor product offers, and locate supporting programs or services, 24/7.
Read MorePrivate Equity Firm Buys Majority Stake in ENTEK
I Squared’s $800 million investment comes as DOE releases $77 million loan to help finance ENTEK’s new battery separator plant in Indiana.
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Introducing GROW Industrial: A Full-Funnel Marketing Solutions Provider
GROW Industrial is the newly formed marketing services arm of Gardner Business Media. Offering custom content, marketing, creative, research, and data services, GROW Industrial expands and builds on the company’s deep first-party reach into the discrete parts manufacturing sector.
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Merger Consolidates Polyolefin Supply in Japan
Sumimoto’s PP and PE production will be integrated into Prime Polymer, a joint venture of Mitsui and Idemitsu.
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Arburg Discontinuing Additive Manufacturing
Company will continue to provide service support for Freeformer machines.
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Xaloy Gets into Twin-Screw Business With UTS Acquisition
Purchase of Canada’s Ultimate Twin Screws rounds out company’s product line.
Read MoreShell To Provide Charter Next Generation With Advanced-Recycled PEs
Film processor to utilize recycled PEs in demanding applications. CNG also launches matte-finish MDO sustainable film line.
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K Offers Guided Tours on Hot Topics
K 2025 offers free thematic guided tours in English and German on topics like digitalization, materials, sustainability and next-generation workers.
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Peter Gardner To Retire from LS Mtron Injection Molding USA
The 37-year plastics veteran began his career in Chicago in 1988 and will retire as the current president of the South Korean press maker’s U.S. subsidiary.
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Plastics Equipment Shipments Inch Higher in Q2
The second quarter’s total shipment value came in at an estimated $253.8 million — up 0.7% from the previous quarter and the same period last year.
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