Good morning! Today we launch our seventh annual survey of processors' machinery investment plans for the coming year, and the issues affecting those decisions. Please take just a few minutes to help us take the pulse of the plastics machinery market. Your responses will be anonymous and no one will contact you without your permission. Thanks in advance!

We also look at a demonstration cell Netstal will be showing at K 2025, along with new equipment from Wittmann and Universal Robots, and news from Caracol.

Lynne Sherwin, managing editor