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Global Polymer Group Publisher Brennan Lafferty talks COVID-19 with Troy Nix on our first edition of the What Keeps You Up At Night? Podcast.
Ben Harp at Polymer Conversions was stumped on rising premium costs for health care for his employees. So he took on the health care industry. And won.
Plastics additive maker Carolina Color has a unusual workforce pipeline: the local prison. Two-thirds of its factory employees are former inmates. We look at how that both helps the company's bottom line, and helps employees get their lives back on track.
After several years of increased sales, Hansen Plastics Corp. in Elgin, Ill., decided they weren't getting enough profit out of the new sales. So the company decided to do a deep dive into lean manufacturing. We go inside the injection molder to find out how it completely changed its company culture.
Can apprenticeships that mix on-the-job-training and college can create a pipeline of skilled workers? We visit several North Carolina plastics firms that say yes. And we see how apprenticeship advocates look to Germany's industrial training model.
At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, several companies discussed the automotive interior of the future. In this month's Plastics News Radio, we examine plastics' role in the future of the interior.
The CEO of the Plastics Industry Association says the Trump administration will be 'much more business friendly.' But talk of tearing up trade deals is a concern. And we discuss the President's habit of tweeting to pressure specific companies.
Seisa Group wants to build a medical manufacturing base on the border city of Juarez. The company's president talks about the vision of a medical device manufacturing cluster in El Paso/Juarez. This episode is sponsored by the Plastics In Automotive conference. To register, visit: http://www.plasticsnews.com/auto
The world's largest plastics trade show recently concluded, and Steve Toloken goes inside K 2016 to see what's on the mind of attendees, exhibitors and Engel Machinery's outgoing CEO Peter Neumann. This episode of Plastics News Radio is sponsored by the Plastics In Automotive Conference. To learn more, or to register, visit: www.plasticsnews.com/auto
Writer, storyteller and design evangelist Gaylon White interviewed Bill Moggridge, co-founder of design firm IDEO, in September 2007 in Palo Alto, Calif., soon after the publication of Moggridge's book-DVD set, called Designing Interactions, which combines traditional print and new digital media. Moggridge died last September at age 69, and that interview was never published – until now. For the first installment in his new monthly Plastics News column called Design Stories, White dug out the tapes from that 90-minute interview, and sifted out some nuggets of classic Moggridge wisdom. This edited highlight audio runs just over 23 minutes, and covers such topics as the merging of print and digital media, the impact of Apple's iPhone on society and what businesses need to know and understand about sustainability, innovation and design. Listen to the voice of a design master in his own words in this exclusive audio clip.