Good morning! Plastics machinery shipments rose in the third quarter, according to PLASTICS' Committee on Equipment Statistics. While extruder sales were down for the quarter and the year, injection molding shipments jumped. More numbers from the quarterly survey are below.

From The Journal of Blow Molding, we have a case study on automating production of large drums. Read the full issue here.

We have new products from Hydramotion and UltiMaker, and from IndustryWeek, a report about the Trump administration's latest effort to defund Manufacturing Extension Partnership programs.

Lynne Sherwin, managing editor