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Absolute Haitian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
absolutehaitian.com
Advantage Engineering, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
advantageengineering.com
AEC, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
aecinternet.com
Arburg GmbH & Co KG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
arburg.us
Athena Controls Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
athenacontrols.com
Boy Machines Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
boymachines.com
Busch LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
buschpump.com
Canon Virginia Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
cvi.canon.com
Chem-Pak, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
chem-pak.com
Comet Plastics Equipment LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
cometpe.com
Conair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
conairgroup.com
DAK Americas, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
dakamericas.com
Dri-Air Industries, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
dri-air.com
HammerTek Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
hammertek.com
Hosokawa Alpine American . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
halpine.com
IMS Industrial Molding Supplies . . . . . . . . . . 17 a,b
imscompany.com
Jomar Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
jomarcorp.com
Leistritz Extruder Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
leistritz-extrusion.com
MachineSense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
machinesense.com
Maguire Products, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
maguire.com
Maruka USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
marukausa.com
Novatec Inc. . . . . . Inside Front Cover, 43, 44, 45
novatec.com
NPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19, 70
npe.org
PCS Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
pcs-company.com
Pelletron Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
pelletroncorp.com
PFA Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
pfa-inc.com
Plastics Hall Of Fame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
plasticshof.org
Plastic Process Equipment, Inc. . . . . . . . . Inside
ppe.com Back Cover
Plastics Industry Association
. . . . . 19, 47, 53, 70
plasticsindustry.org
Plastrac Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
plastrac.com
Processing Technologies International LLC . . . 30
ptiextruders.com
PSI-Polymer Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
psi-polymersystems.com
Rapid Granulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
rapidgranulator.com
Refocus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
refocussummit.org
Republic Machine, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
republicmachine.com
Ross, Charles & Son Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
mixers.com
Sepro America, LLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
seproamerica.com
SmartAttend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
smartattend.com
SPE Automotive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
speautomotive.com
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery . . . .
sumitomo-shi-demag.us 33 a,b
TempTek Inc.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
temptek.com
Thermal Care, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
thermalcare.com
Wittmann Battenfeld, Inc. . . . 14, 15, Back Cover
wittmann-group.com
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