Plastics Insights Topic Preview
Issue 6/2026
Advertising deadline: August 17, 2026
Publication date: August 13, 2026
Topics in this issue:
Market & Management
- New Plastic Heroes: MicroBubbles
Focus: Batteries / E-Mobility
- Polymer-based aluminum/copper-coated foils as current conductors for the next generation of lithium-ion batteries
- Cost-effective performance improvements for electric motors and batteries
Special: Color and Design
- Trend Survey: Color & Design in Plastics
- 100 Years of Inorganic Pigments at Lanxess – On-Site Report
- Portable color and gloss measurement using digital standards
- Pigments for particle foams
Materials
- Structural Integrity of Soft TPEs in the Fused Granular Fabrication Process
Machines, Equipment, Processing
- Engel Clearmelt as a key technology for modern vehicle lighting
- Using WIT and hot runner technology to create lightweight youth bicycles
- Nova 5eT Series of Electric Injection Molding Machines Launched in Germany
- Compact injection molding machine with a large buffer tank
- Interview with Steffen Paul, Managing Director of SimpaTec in Weimar
- Another approach to mold venting
- Volume over downtime—it’s all about the coating
- New thermoforming press for aircraft structural components enables an 80 percent increase in output
- A novel electrophotographic powder application method (EPA) for laser-based powder bed fusion of polymers
Circular Economy
- Follow-up Report on the AI Circular Economy Conference