This is what you will learn on today’s Machinery Minutes podcast with Ron Shinn, in which we round up three impactful stories from the past week:  - Can companies continue to make packaging profitably while heading off regulations that could put plastics on the chopping block?  - Russ LaBelle, the well-known founder of Wilmington Machinery, died at the age of 86. He developed specialized plastic machinery solutions that have since been adopted by companies around the world.  - Good news for injection molding machinery builders in third-quarter sales totals. Not so much for extrusion machinery manufacturers.