SPE Thermoforming Quarterly

SPE Thermoforming Quarterly

Industry Takes on Thermoforming at NPE 2024 By Conor Carlin, Editor NPE returned to Orlando in May 2024 after a 6-year hiatus, so expectations were high leading up to the event. With over 50,000 attendees expected, this show was expected by many to be barometer for...
Training session boasts international attendees

Training session boasts international attendees

WILLIAMSPORT — The polymer technology workforce recently received a boost, thanks to recent training hosted by the Plastics Innovation and Resource Center at Pennsylvania College of Technology. The Hands-On Thermoforming Workshop covered the basics of thermoforming –...
OMV Technologies highlights sustainability efforts

OMV Technologies highlights sustainability efforts

Its use of Promix’s Microcell foaming technology enables lightweighting of extruded sheet for thermoforming. By Bruce Geiselman OMV Technologies, which designs and builds thermoforming machines, molds and extrusion in-line systems for rigid food packaging,...
OMV Technologies Gets New CEO

OMV Technologies Gets New CEO

Kooper brings 33 years of experience in the industrial and consumer packaging industries to OMV–the closed-loop, turnkey, inline extrusion, thermoforming and tooling systems manufacturer. Gary P. Kooper has been named the new CEO of OMV Technologies, a leading...
Rising Stars 2022: Brooke Maltun

Rising Stars 2022: Brooke Maltun

Brooke Maltun, 34, President, OMV Technologies LLC. Brooke Maltun, 34 President, OMV Technologies LLC Brooke Maltun is a second-generation thermoformer and entrepreneur living in Los Angeles. In 1993, her father purchased Harbor City, Calif.-based thermoformed...