Browse through our manufacturing blog articles we release every now and then relating to the plastics manufacturing industry along with our sister company, HTI Plastics.
GEIST PLASTICS SEEN AS GLOBAL ECOSYSTEM PARTNER
Geist Plastics' President, Dominic Pynes, was recently interviewed by Jerry Hoffman for the Hoffman Strategy Group's blog. Click here to read...
GEIST PLASTICS CUSTOMERS BENEFIT FROM SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP
Call it the supply chain, call it the extended enterprise. At Geist Plastics, we refer to the role our suppliers play in assisting with the...
VALUING YOUR CUSTOMER YIELDS MORE BUSINESS
All business owners and managers say, "We greatly value our customers. Without them we wouldn't be in business." But we all know companies who fall...
GEIST PLASTICS PROVIDES PERSONALIZED SERVICE
We have customers who treat us like a partner. Contributor – Brian Havlat, Production Manager In March Brian celebrates his two-year anniversary...
COMMON PROBLEMS OF PLASTIC EXTRUSION
To ensure successful extrusion manufacturing, every parameter must be identified, controlled, and monitored. Some of the variables are based on...
ARE YOU USING THE RIGHT RESIN?
Several years ago while I was division president of Apex Plastics, our blow molding manufacturing division, we wrestled with a production problem...
FORM, FIT, AND FUNCTION IN PROFILE TOOL DESIGN
Know the Three F's Of Profile Tooling Design By Dan Cykana Reprinted with permission from the Author Designing an extrusion profile and...
How Plastic Extrusion Works
Plastic products take many different forms - known as plastic profiles to us - but they all start as raw material called resin. In plastic...