Good morning! Our annual Machinery Investment Survey, conducted in October every year, and the follow-up interviews with processors and OEMs give us a good idea of how the industry sees the year ahead. But so much has changed since then — the Iran war, resin price hikes, more tariff turmoil — so we decided to do a midyear check-in to see how things are going and what the rest of 2026 might bring. Below, find the poll results and perspectives on the second half of the year.

We also have new products from Hasco and Hennecke, and from our colleagues at Processing, a case study on improving polymer blending.

Lynne Sherwin, editor