PMM Insight: A Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing Podcast

Analyzing the advanced recycling market; Hillenbrand sold for $3.8 billion: Machinery Minutes

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What you'll learn on today’s Machinery Minutes podcast from Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing: 

  • The recycling industry has been stuck in a perpetual cycle of volatility for years. Its future depends on overcoming technical, economic and legislative challenges, alongside investment in infrastructure and recovery efforts, according to an ICIS analysis.
    • Hillenbrand, which owns Mold-Masters, DME, Tirad, Herbold Meckesheim and Coperion, has been acquired by Lone Star Funds in a $3.8 billion deal. 
      • The U.S. plastics industry accounted for $154.3 billion in trade volume in 2024 but turned from a trade surplus in 2023 to a deficit in 2024, according to the annual Global Trends Report from PLASTICS. 
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