Good morning! PMM senior reporter Bruce Geiselman has been at the Annual Blow Molding Conference this week, and we're sharing some of his pictures from the floor today. More coverage is coming up on PMM's website and in the fall issue of The Journal of Blow Molding.

Greg Graham of Kent Elastomer Products details the steps that go into the production of high-performance tubing. Husky has a new tooling system for closures. And our colleagues at IndustryWeek report the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers on manufacturing jobs, which showed positive trends for plastics and rubber.

Lynne Sherwin, editor