Polyvinyl chloride pipes have become the backbone of modern plumbing, drainage, and irrigation systems worldwide. Understanding the intricate manufacturing process behind these ubiquitous construction ...

Danish plastics extrusion firm Primo A/S is opening its first U.S. plant in Mobile, Ala. The new 24,000-square-foot plant primarily will make PVC profiles for subsea cables, officials said in a news ...

Opening is the subject of this month’s column. I’m talking about the die opening, or die gap, out of which our extruded plastic comes, not the politically charged battle over opening the economy that ...

Planet Earth is spinning at a rate of 0.0007 rpm. Easy to calculate: One revolution per day, divided by 24 to get revs/hr and then by 60 to get revs/min = rpm. As for linear speed, it depends on where ...

Dickson, Tenn.-based window and door profile extruder Bavarian Polymers Inc. is growing again, this time at its satellite manufacturing site in Abilene, Texas, which is undergoing an expansion that ...