Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing is a monthly business-to-business magazine and website dedicated to innovations in plastics processing machinery, tooling technologies and equipment.
The brand covers a wide range of topics, including injection molding, extrusion, blow molding, thermoforming, additive manufacturing, recycling and manufacturing strategies.
Our readers are corporate executives, engineering leaders, production and plant managers, procurement officers, sales leaders in plastics processing businesses and other industry stakeholders.
PMM, founded in 2014, is part of Endeavor Business Media, the largest B2B media company in North America. EBM has more than 90 media brands and 60 conferences and exhibitions.
What we offer
Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing’s print magazine is published 12 times per year. It contains easy-to-read descriptions of new products, profiles of industry leaders and stories focusing on technologies, management and best practices.
PlasticsMachineryManufacturing.com contains content from the magazine and much more, including the latest daily news from the plastics industry.
PMM Insight podcasts are posted every Monday morning, rounding up the Top 3 stories of the week, and the second and fourth Thursdays every month, with editorial commentary and interviews.
Newsletters include PMM Update three times per week, Top Stories once each month and Recycling Update once each month.
Follow us on social media.
Webinars: Featuring industry experts with a PMM host.
eHandbooks: Covering a wide range of plastics industry topics.
Meet the team
Ron Shinn, editor, has more than 35 years of experience covering the plastics industry and was one of the founders of PMM. Email.
Lynne Sherwin, managing editor, has been covering the industry for six years after a 30-year daily newspaper career. Email.
Karen Hanna, senior staff reporter, has more than 10 years of experience as an editor and writer with PMM. Email.
Bill Rodman, sales manager, has more than 30 years of experience in the plastics industry. Email.
Editorial contributions
PMM welcomes original, bylined contributed articles for publication, provided the material is non-commercial and first run. For consideration, please send a brief abstract to Ron Shinn.