Many plastics processors are seeing an up-tick in business. The auto industry is finally growing, housing showed some signs of life last month and medical is always pretty stable. Regardless of what you are injection molding or extruding or blow…

The amount of money that can be lost in a manufacturing process such as injection molding (or extrusion) without even realizing it is being lost is truly staggering. Do you think the average molding technician really knows what a second…

For companies that are in the business of helping other companies (in our case plastics manufacturers) upgrade and maintain the knowledge and skills of their production teams, discussions about the REAL payback from training are problematic. What if there were…

As a company that has been intimately involved with training in the plastic's industry since the mid 1970's, Paulson Training has been asked this question quite a few times. However, it's probably not as often as you think. You see,…

If you're familiar with molding you know that voids (holes) inside molded parts usually occur where walls meet or ribs attach to walls. To scientifically analyze voids, or any molded part problem, look at the problem from “the plastics point…

It's All of Them. There is no question that injection molding began as an art.  In the early days of molding, the expert problem solver in your plant was “old Joe”, a 20 year veteran on the production floor. It…