Sales of presses and extruders are up along with calls for technical support from a plastics industry in flux because of the pandemic, consolidation, mergers and acquisitions.
The preliminary estimate of shipment value from reporting companies totaled $333.8 million for July through September 8.8 percent from the same quarter of 2020.
Strong sales of injection molding machines continued into 2021 with solid demand again from the medical and home goods markets as well as businesses bringing back production from overseas and it's almost all in response to the pandemic.