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LEADER OF THER YEAR: TERRY ELLIOTT TAKES CENTRE STAGE

Terry Elliott has spent over 30 years in Canada’s plastics industry, rising from the chemistry lab to sales and management positions to his current job as president of Scepter, while doing enough volunteer work along the way to fill a second career. In both areas, he’s used his team management techniques and transformational leadership skills to improve organizational health, and the bottom line. But for all his strategizing, he didn’t see the Leader of the Year award coming.

RAW MATERIALS HANDLING: Keep it moving

If you’re not conveying resin to your presses quickly and efficiently, you’re practically begging to go out of business. These latest raw material handling technologies can help get your materials from here to there on time and in good shape.

COLOURANTS: Drops of innovation

Unless consumer product makers want their goods to fizzle faster than the Washington Capitals in the Stanley Cup playoffs, they have to manufacture things that the marketplace actually wants. Developing products in the right colours is a good start. Here’s what colourant makers say are the hot trends for 2018-19.

SIZE REDUCTION: Best practices, best results

Whether you’re a plastics processer generating both startup waste and off-spec parts or a recycler dealing with scrap 24/7, how you handle regrind is a very big deal. Here’s how to get the most from your granulation and shredding equipment.

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