2024
April 2024
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Using Custom Molded Polyurethane
- Almost 2 Million US Manufacturing Jobs May Go Unfilled, Study Finds
- The Cost of Bad Communication in Manufacturing Plants
- Replacing Plastics With Alternatives Is Worse for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Most Cases, Study Finds
March 2024
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Polyurethane Rollers & Wheels
- Recycling Research Finds New Process to Transform Glass Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Into Silicon Carbide
- 7 Reasons Cloud Data is Driving the Future of Auto Manufacturing
- Industrial AI Begins: Blessing or Curse?
February 2024
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Polyurethane Foam Jounce Bumpers
- AI Disrupts the Workforce — But Not How You Think
- 'Complexity is the Enemy of Security'
- 3D Printing Trends to Watch in 2024
January 2024 Product Spotlight
- Coal Mining Foam Fillers
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January 2024
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- New Year, New Projects!
- Championing Safety From the Top Down
- Supply Chain New Year’s Resolutions: Things To STOP Doing In 2024
- To Fully Embrace the Future of Manufacturing, We Need to Take a Step Back
2023
December 2023
- From All of Us at Pleiger Plastics We Wish You a Safe & Very Merry Holiday
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Smarter Manufacturing: Improving Safety and Efficiency With The IoT
- U.S. Government Takes Action to Strengthen the National Supply Chain
- Google DeepMind Adds Nearly 400,000 New Compounds to Open-Access Database
November 2023
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Spotlight: Pleiger Products Made in the USA
- Is the Manufacturing Recession Almost Over?
- Plastic-Eating Bacteria Turn Waste Into Useful Starting Materials for Other Products
- More Big Companies are Investing in Carbon Removal
October 2023 Product Spotlight
- Have you checked out our Hydrocyclones?
- Check Out Our Other Polyurethane Products
October 2023
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Service Spotlight: The Pleiger Solution
- 8 Great Ways Modern Tech Can Boost The Efficiency Of Your Business
- How the UAW Strike Is Impacting Supplier Operations
- Predictive Maintenance Leads to Higher Production Output, Lower Maintenance Costs
September 2023
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Product Spotlight: Snowplow Cutting Edges
- Table Salt Could Be the Secret Ingredient for Better Chemical Recycling
- Read Past the Headlines When It Comes to the Labor Market
- Top 10 Plastics Developments
August 2023
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Product Spotlight: Engineering Services
- Why Manufacturing Leaders Should Embrace Data-Driven Manufacturing
- Flooding the Market with Cheap China-Made Machinery, Who Benefits?
- Sustainable Plastic Made More Compostable
July 2023 Product Spotlight
- Have You Checked Out Our Polyurethane Transport Rollers?
- Check Out Our Other Polyurethane Products
July 2023
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Featured Products: Durometer Gauge & Hardness
- Why Manufacturers Are Using a New Approach to Roadmapping
- 5 Ways Engineers Can Be More Sustainable
- Eye-Popping Data You Probably Didn’t See
June 2023
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Featured Products: Custom Polyurethane Products
- Top Technological Advancements To Watch In The Manufacturing Industry
- Mass Production: The Pros and Cons of This Common Engineering Practice
- Breaking Down Walls to Build e-Factories
May 2023
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Featured Products: Stock Shapes-Rod, Sheet, Tube & Bars
- The Five Most Modern Cities in the World
- Why Smart Interconnection Is Essential for Building the Factories of the Future
- Fungi Makes a Meal of Hard-to-Recycle Plastic
April 2023 Product Spotlight
- Effective Solutions to Complex Problems:
- Check Out Our Other Custom Polyurethane Products
April 2023
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Featured Products: Polyurethane Rollers & Wheels
- Material Management: A Critical Aspect of the Supply Chain
- Technologies are Disrupting the Manufacturing Industry
- “Very High” Accuracy – Machine Learning Helps Separate Compostable From Conventional Plastic Waste
March 2023
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Featured Products: Mechanical Power Transmission Couplings
- What Are the Differences Between Preventive and Predictive Maintenance?
- Researchers Build Hard, Self-Healing Plastic That Can Be Reshaped and Recycled
- A Wholly Sustainable Plastics Economy is Feasible
February 2023
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Featured Products: Scrapers & Belt Cleaners
- Artificial Photosynthesis Uses Sunlight to Make Biodegradable Plastic
- 2023 Outlook: Is This the Year Supply Chains Stabilize?
- Digital Transformation: How Manufacturing Is Riding the Cloud to New Heights
January 2023
- Message from Our President
- News You Didn't Know You Needed
- Fixing the Broken Supply Chain
- Solar-Powered System Converts Plastic and Greenhouse Gases Into Sustainable Fuels
- Turning Plastic Waste Into a Valuable Soil Additive
2022
December 2022
- From All of Us at Pleiger Plastics We Wish You a Safe and Very Merry Holiday
- It's Time to Prepare for Tractor Trailer Snow Removal
- New Process Shows Promise Turning Plastic Trash Into Pharmaceuticals
- It’s Cheaper to Manufacture Plastic Products in Ohio than in China
November 2022
- Did you Know? Pleiger's Custom Polyurethane Products are 'Made in the USA'
- Egg Whites Can Be Transformed Into a Material Capable of Filtering Microplastics From Seawater
- Scientists Astonished by Strange Material That Can Be Made Like Plastic but Conducts Like Metal
- Scientists Successfully Create Diamonds Out of Bottle Plastic
October 2022
- Featured: Prototyping Services
- 3 Ways the Inflation Reduction Act Impacts Manufacturing
- US Manufacturing Roars Back in 2022
- First Chemical Recycling Program for Synthetic Turf Launched in US
September 2022
- Featured: Meet Our Team
- Yikes!: No Pooh-Poohing Poo: Researchers Envision an Extreme Circular Economy
- Self-Sterilizing Plastic Film Kills Viruses Using Ordinary Light
- The Real Reason: Shining Light on Why Plastics Turn Yellow
August 2022
- Featured: Custom Polyurethane Products
- Engineers Repurpose 19th-Century Photography Technique to Make Stretchy, Color-Changing Films
- Plastics’ Positive Impact on Climate Change
- Is There Another Factory Hiding Within Your Factory?
July 2022 Product Spotlight
- Product Focus: Polyurethane Scrapers
- Polyurethane Scrapers Cut and Abrasion Resistance
July 2022
- Feature: Take a Look at Our NEW Website
- Engineers Create Single-Step, All-in-One 3D Printing Method to Make Robotic Materials
- Mitigating the Labor Shortages in Manufacturing With Plant Management Software
- New PET-Like Plastic Made Directly From Waste Biomass
June 2022
- Featured Product: Squeegee Pit-stop Pack
- Got Coffee? Here’s How to Screen Print With It
- Versatile Plastics Inspire Innovations
- Chip Shortage Drives Up Payment Card Costs
- Plastic-Eating Enzyme Could Supercharge Recycling and Eliminate Billions of Tons of Landfill Waste
May 2022
- Featured Product: Vulkollan®
- Key Trends In Manufacturing Plastic Products In 2022
- A Car Made From Recycled Plastic? This Could Be the Future
- History of Friday the 13th
April 2022 Product Spotlight
- Product Focus: Automotive Aftermarket - Polyurethane Foam
- Vulkollan (PT-15 Foam)
April 2022
- Featured Product: Plei-Tech 15 (Vulkollan) Foam
- Shutdowns in China Leave Things Open-ended for Supply Chain Stakeholders
- Treated Plastic Waste Good at Grabbing Carbon Dioxide
- Major loT Trends to Expect in 2022
March 2022
- Featured Product: Pleiger Plastics Polyurethane Balls and Check Valves
- Mussels' Underwater Glue Inspires Synthetic Cement
- Sustainability in the Screen Printing Industry
- Polypropylene Recycling from Carpet Waste
February 2022
- Letter From Our President
- U.S. Plastics Pact Calls for Elimination of 11 Products and Materials
- Shortages 2022: 5 Products Expected to be in Tight Supply this Year
- The Winter Olympics: Going for the Gold by Way of Plastics
January 2022
- NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Successfully Deploys 70-Foot Sunshield – Here’s What’s Next
- Sustainable Food Packaging that Keeps Harmful Microbes at Bay
- Breakthrough in Separating Plastic Waste: Machines Can Now Distinguish 12 Different Types of Plastic
January 2022 Product Spotlight
- Pleiger Capabilities: Engineering and Rapid Prototyping Services
2021
December 2021
- 3D Printing Platform Could Shape the Future of Spare Part Production
- Supply Chain Chaos to Persist Through to Next Summer
- Amazon Making Its Own Ocean Containers, Chartering Ships, Using Smaller Ports
November 2021
- Featured Employee: Ron Beiersdorf
- From Medical Applications to Sporting Goods: Biocompatible and Sustainable Plastics
- Supply Chain Uncertainty Gives Workers a Chance to Shine
- Why The Manufacturing Sector Needs to Go Digital – Quickly
October 2021
- Carbon Dioxide Reactor Synthesizes Martian Fuel
- Coronavirus: A Lesson in Supply Chain Risk Management
- Return To Work: Dog Owners Will Miss Pup More Than Spouse, Children
September 2021 Product Spotlight
- Pleiger Capabilities: Plei-Tech Polyurethane Rollers & Wheels
September 2021
- 6 Marketing Trends to Prepare For in 2022
- Proposed Plastic Excise Tax Would Hurt Consumers Without Fundamentally Reducing Plastic Waste
- Plastics Aren’t What We Think. New Study Finds They’re a Tad Rubbery, Paving the Way for Better Products
August 2021
- Product Spotlight: Screen Printing Squeegee Profiles
- Scientists Develop Tougher, Safer Bicycle Helmets Using New Plastic Material
- 3D Printing Our Way Out of the Housing Crisis
- Microbes Engineered to Convert Sugar Into a Chemical Found in Tires
July 2021
- Spotlight: Urethane Molding Methods
- Solving the Plastic Shortage with a New Chemical Catalyst
- Microbes in Cow Stomachs Can Break Down Plastic – Sustainable Way to Reduce Plastic Litter
- How the World Ran Out of Everything
June 2021 Product Spotlight
- Pleiger Capabilities: Polyurethane Scraper Blades
June 2021
- This is Pleiger Plastics' 35th Anniversary!
- Innovative New Technology Converts Waste Plastics to Jet Fuel – In Just an Hour
- The World’s First Ink Made From Air Pollution
- ‘Floating’ Swimming Pool Made Possible by Plastics Engineering
May 2021
- Pleiger Product Spotlight: Plei-Tech® Polyurethanes
- Supply Chain News: Plastics, of All Things, Now in Very Short Supply
- How COVID-19 Did (and Didn’t) Change Automation in Plastics
- North American Manufacturing on the Rebound, But Headwinds Are Gathering
April 2021
- Pleiger Custom Polyurethane Product Spotlight
- Turning Wood Into Recyclable, Biodegradable Plastic
- Unique Method to Fabricate Freeform Structures of Thermoplastics in Microparticulate Gels
- Manufacturing’s Perfect Storm - US Manufacturing Supply Chain Unprepared for Record Surge in Demand
March 2021 Product Spotlight
- Pleiger Capabilities: Advantages of Polyurethane Products
March 2021
- Pleiger Product Spotlight: Leg Pocket Fillers
- Leveraging Reverse Logistics is Key to Profits This Year
- Plastic Packaging Has the Power to Solve Food Waste Challenges
- Life's Rich Pattern: Researchers Use Sound to Shape the Future of Printing
February 2021
- Pleiger Product Spotlight: Screen Printing Squeegees
- Molecule from Nature Provides Fully Recyclable Polymers
- Catalyst Transforms Plastic Waste to Valuable Ingredients at Low Temperature
- Mysterious Organic Scum Boosts Chemical Reaction Efficiency – Discovery May Reduce Environmental Impact of Manufacturing
January 2021
- Letter From Our President
- Pleiger Education Spotlight: Durometer Hardness for Polyurethanes
- Will 2021 Be the Breakout Year for Additive Manufacturing?
- 3 Steps to Supply Chain Resilience and Digital Transformation in Manufacturing
- 6 Challenges Facing Plastics Manufacturing in 2021
