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ICYMI: February 2026 Roundup
For the Valentine’s Day month, Plastics Technology readers picked a mixed bouquet of 10 stories from extrusion tips and troubleshooting to Top Shops and electric vehicle materials.
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People power the most progressive plastics processors, and that’s something our Top Shops intuitively understand.
Read MoreTop Shops 2025: Injection Molding Benchmarking Results Released
The 2025 benchmarking survey, based on 2024 data, found that processors gradually moved from defending their market positions to pursuing growth strategically — which continues today.
Read MoreLast Chance! Top Shops Survey Closes at Midnight!
The ninth annual Top Shops benchmarking survey for injection molders is now open, providing molders a free opportunity to see how they stack up with fellow molders via a customized report.
Read MoreTake Top Shops 2025 Injection Molding Survey Today
The Top Shops injection molding benchmarking survey could help you replace “I think,” “It seems,” or “I’d guess” with “I know” when it comes to how your operation stacks up with the competition.
Read MoreAnnual Benchmarking Survey of Injection Molders Released
Plastics Technology Top Shops Benchmarking Survey provided both unanimous responses and divided results, but pervasive throughout is the sense of an industry still grappling with the aftermath of 2020’s global pandemic.
Read MoreCOVID-19’s Long Shadow
More than four years on, there are aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic that linger in their impacts to the plastics market and are made visible in our annual survey.
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10 Years of Plastics Technology Top Shops
For the last decade, the survey, which is open until March 31, has gathered data, undertaken analysis and delivered insights to help injection molders improve operations.
Tony Deligio
Editor-in-Chief, Plastics Technology
New, Streamlined Injection Molding Benchmarking Survey Opens
The free, anonymous Top Shops Benchmarking Survey has been divided into core questions and modules, giving companies the option to complete a shorter questionnaire.
Read MoreTop Shops Benchmarking Report: Molding at the Margin
In a world of rising costs and uncertain market conditions, the ability to wring maximum profits from existing business was truly the mark of a Top Shop in 2022.
Read MoreMake Your Mark: Free Benchmarking Survey Remains Open
You have until April 30 to fill out your 2023 Plastics Technology Top Shops Benchmarking Survey, with no cost to you and a free analysis of your operations’ performance upon completion.
Read MoreTop Shops Time: Take the Injection Molding Benchmarking Survey Today
Plastics Technology has once again opened its annual survey of injection molders — participate in the anonymous benchmarking questionnaire today and reward your company with a free customized report.
Read MoreSharpen Your Pencils: Participate In ‘Top Shops' Benchmarking Survey
The free, anonymous survey of injection molders is open for responses, and all shops that complete the questionnaire will receive a customized report of the results. Honorees also will be recognized in the magazine.
Read More2022 Top Shops Benchmarking Survey: Cost Conquerors
Higher costs for materials, wages, utilities and more, coupled with delivery difficulties for both incoming supplies and outgoing production, posed unique challenges to 2022’s class of Top Shops.
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Top Shops Adapt, Evolve and Overcome
Like a stress test on steroids, the pandemic took full measure of Plastics Technology’s Top Shops as it exacerbated or revealed preexisting conditions around labor, the supply chain and more.
Read MoreTop Shops: Benchmarking Injection Molding in a Pandemic Year
At the start of 2021, as it does every year, Plastics Technology asked injection molders to look back on the year prior and take stock of their operations. The only difference this time: COVID-19.
Read MoreGardner Business Media Announces Inaugural Top Shops Expo + Conference
The new industrial event from the publisher of Plastics Technology will feature data, sourcing and technology updates for manufacturing businesses, including injection molders.
Read MoreRipped from the Pages of Plastics Technology
Already gathering entries for its 5th year, Plastics Technology’s Top Shops continues to shine a spotlight on plastics’ premier processors.
Read MoreTop Shops 2020: Molding More from Less
Plastics Technology’s 2020 Top Shops benchmarking survey reveals that the most effective molders are, not surprisingly, the most efficient, accomplishing more than their peers from a smaller manufacturing footprint.
Read MoreExclusive Benchmarking Report: Top Shops Are More Than Just Molders
The 2019 Plastics Technology Top Shops Survey shows that for its highest-rated respondents, injection molding is just one element in a growing suite of services and capabilities offered to customers.
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ICYMI: October 2025 Roundup
What’s more October-y than pumpkin spice? How about the K show, EPR, resin pricing, date stamps and tandem foam sheet extrusion, among other popular PT reads.
Tony Deligio
Editor-in-Chief, Plastics Technology
Think Your Molding Operation Is Productive? Find Out How You Stack Up Against Others
Participate in Plastics Technology’s ”Top Shops” benchmarking survey and gain access to a free customized report measuring your key metrics against the cream of the crop.
Read MorePinpoint Your Operation’s Strengths and Weaknesses
A new report helps injection molders find their facility’s relative strengths so they can keep them ‘humming’ and relative unmet opportunities so they can address them.
Read MoreWorld-Class Processors: Meet Plastics' Preeminent Processors
Plastics Technology’s second annual benchmarking survey is back with a new honor roll of companies from across the industry. One of the ties that binds these progressive processors is their reliance on data.
Read MoreTime’s Running Out to Prove You're World Class
Plastics Technology’s World-Class Processor survey will be closing soon; take the opportunity today lay your claim to the World-Class title.
Read MoreA Benchmark for Plastics Processors
benchmark noun: a standard by which something can be measured or judged.
Read MoreTop of the Class: Meet 2015’s World-Class Processors
Plastics Technology’s inaugural group of World-Class Processors—selected through an exclusive benchmarking survey—spans geographies, markets, processes, and materials. Diverse in size and capabilities, these companies have one key trait in common: efficiency. How do you stack up in comparison?
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