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The Importance of “Why?” in Plastic Decorating
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Plastics Decorating is a quarterly magazine with a distribution of 10,500 each quarter, targeting companies that decorate and assemble plastics. It is distributed to corporate management as well as plant and production managers involved in the plastics decorating process.
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