Good morning! Our focus on thermoforming innovations from K 2025 continues with the latest from WM: two new lines and an AI-powered smart solutions suite.
Commenting in late 2025 as PMM prepared its outlook for the year ahead, PLASTICS chief economist Perc Pineda warned that processors would likely need to spend more on employees in 2026. His latest economic analysis supports that prediction.
We have new machine vision lights from Advanced Illumination, and from IndustryWeek, the January report from ISM (Institute for Supply Management). It showed growth in nine out of 17 manufacturing industries it analyzes, but unfortunately, plastics and rubber was not one of them.
Lynne Sherwin, managing editor
