The key objective of the manufacturing industry is to drive manufacturing forward: to be faster, more efficient, and customer-centric while pushing beyond automation and optimization to discover new business opportunities and models. In this year’s Materials Manufacturing Processes, we will look at the innovations that have been made in the last twelve months in forming, molding, extrusion, pultrusion and injection molding. Many of the advancements mentioned in our newsletter have been talked about at recent trade shows or have won awards for innovative design, while others are innovative patent pending technologies.