Here's what you'll learn on today’s Machinery Minutes podcast, in which PMM editor Ron Shinn rounds up three top stories from the past week:

• Are you familiar with PWDS, SFDR or WDLS? If you are in the blow molding business, you know they are acronyms for equipment to optimize thin bottle walls. But you might be surprised where this equipment came from.

• Tobias Baur is Arburg’s managing director of sales and after-sales, plus he is president of Euromap. Hear what he has to say about leadership, innovation and the future of plastics.

• Recyclers may be the biggest losers in the collapse of talks on an international plastics treaty.

On this episode of PMM Insight, a commentary by Editor Ron Shinn about hot topics heard on the show floor at K 2025:

• Competition – particularly from Asian machinery manufacturers – has caused Arburg to build a lower-cost molding machine.

• Artificial intelligence is coming, but machinery manufacturers are very divided on when it will get here.

• Aftermarket parts and service have become more important for machinery manufacturers’ bottom line.

What you will learn on today’s episode of PMM's Machinery Minutes podcast, in which we round up three top stories from the past week in five minutes:

• Injection molding equipment manufacturer Husky Technologies has been acquired by CompoSecure, a financial technology services firm. Husky will continue to operate under current management as a standalone company.

• The Plastics Industry Association announced the theme for NPE2027. It is “Next is Now.”

• The American Injection Molding Institute (AIM) has launched a plastics technology certificate training program that consists of 64 hours or instruction, available in person or online.