Good morning! On today's podcast, Editor Ron Shinn talks about some of the trends he heard about in the plastics machinery market at the K show. 

While nowhere near the scale of K, PMM staffers had a productive day at the AMI Plastics World Expos in Cleveland on Wednesday. See some images from the show, which continues today.

We have new products from Herbold, Inoex and E-Z Lok, and a look at the economic importance of manufacturing from our colleagues at IndustryWeek.

Lynne Sherwin, managing editor