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March 2025

• News You Didn't Know You Needed
• Check Out Our Polyurethane Rollers & Wheels
• 3D-printed Bioresorbable Heart Valve May Represent ‘Paradigm Shift’
• Tariffs Unwrapped: How New Trade Policies Could Reshape the Packaging Industry in 2025

February 2025

• News You Didn't Know You Needed
• Polyurethane Foam Jounce Bumpers
• Is Lean Manufacturing Still the Answer?
• Research Predicts Major Technology-Driven Growth for Manufacturing Industry in 2025

January 2025 Product Spotlight

• Coal Mining Foam Fillers
• Reduce Your Downtime with Plei-Tech Foam Fillers
• What Does It Mean to Be MSHA Approved?
• Check Out Our Other Polyurethane Products

January 2025

• News You Didn't Know You Needed
• It's a New Year! Let Us Help With Your 2025 Projects
• Why I’m Optimistic About US Manufacturing in 2025
• USPS to Launch ‘Next Day Priority’ Shipping Service in 2025

2024

December 2024

• Happy Holidays
• News You Didn't Know You Needed
• High Density Flexible Polyurethane Foam Parts
• Collaborative Project Focuses on Smart Lightweight Plastic Structures
• New Printing Technology Claims to Bring Unprecedented Decorative Capabilities to Flexible Plastics

November 2024

• Happy Thanksgiving
• News You Didn't Know You Needed
• Our Products are Made in the U.S.A.
• The Labor Shortage Is About to Get a Whole Lot Worse
• Breaking News in Flexible Plastic Packaging

October 2024 Product Spotlight

• Mechanical Power Transmission Couplings
• Vulkollan® is the First Choice for Mechanical Couplings
• Check Out Our Other Polyurethane Products

October 2024

• News You Didn't Know You Needed
• Have You Ordered Your Snowplow Cutting Edges? Snow Isn't Far Off
• Hurricane Helene: FedEx, UPS and US Postal Service Still Disrupted
• What Will 2025 Bring to the Plastics Sector?

September 2024

• News You Didn't Know You Needed
• We Have Snowplow Cutting Edges
• The Role of Automation in Supply Chain Resilience
• Younger Workers Are Needed to Shore Up Shrinking Labor Force

August 2024

• News You Didn't Know You Needed
• Advantages of Polyurethane
• Shop Floor Scheduling: Are You Getting the Most out of Your Plant’s Production Capacity?
• Why & How Polyurethane is Environmentally Friendly for the Construction Industry

July 2024 Product Spotlight

• Coal Mining Foam Fillers MSHA APPROVED #MSHA IC-290
• Look For Us at These Trade Shows
• Check Out Our Other Polyurethane Products

June 2024

• News You Didn't Know You Needed
• The Solid Polyurethane Bumper
• Are You Overlooking the Benefits of Thermoset Molding?
• Common Plastics Could Passively Cool and Heat Buildings With the Seasons

June 2024

• News You Didn't Know You Needed
• Using Hydrocyclones
• Greenhouses Cover More and More of Earth's Surface
• The Only Thing Guaranteed is Uncertainty, What Should Supply Chains Do?

May 2024

• News You Didn't Know You Needed
• Screen Printing Squeegees
• Scientists Determine Disorder Improves Lithium-Ion Battery Life
• Firm Making Concrete Additive from Mixed Plastic Waste

April 2024 Product Spotlight

• Principles of Polyurethane
  What Polyurethane is and Why We Use it
• Check Out Our Other Polyurethane Products

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
  MSHA APPROVED #MSHA IC-290
• Check Out Our Other Polyurethane Products

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:
  • Polyurethane Engineering Services
  • Polyurethane Testing Labs Services
  • Prototyping Services
• 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 Product Spotlight

• Product Focus: Screen Printing Squeegee Selection
• Pleiger Squeegee Brochure

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