VALUING YOUR CUSTOMER YIELDS MORE BUSINESS

by lincoln | Apr 5, 2013

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 short – be it in attitude, professionalism, product quality, customer relations, or delivery. When it...

GEIST PLASTICS PROVIDES PERSONALIZED SERVICE

by lincoln | Feb 18, 2013

We have customers who treat us like a partner. Contributor – Brian Havlat, Production Manager In March Brian celebrates his two-year anniversary with Geist Plastics. His primary responsibility is handling our agriculture customers. It all starts with a guy in the...

COMMON PROBLEMS OF PLASTIC EXTRUSION

by lincoln | Jan 21, 2013

To ensure successful extrusion manufacturing, every parameter must be identified, controlled, and monitored. Some of the variables are based on equipment, others on operating conditions. The variables range from the quality of the die and materials to temperatures and...

ARE YOU USING THE RIGHT RESIN?

by lincoln | Oct 10, 2012

Several years ago while I was division president of Apex Plastics, our blow molding manufacturing division, we wrestled with a production problem for a few weeks. We had a fairly new technician who struggled with unacceptable variations in the wall thickness of a...

FORM, FIT, AND FUNCTION IN PROFILE TOOL DESIGN

by lincoln | Mar 22, 2012

Know the Three F’s Of Profile Tooling Design By Dan Cykana Reprinted with permission from the Author Designing an extrusion profile and ultimately the die design and sizing equipment cannot be executed successfully without a full understanding of the...