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Modern Edge's Angell offers lessons in creative thinking

TAMPA, FLA. — In this latest Executive Forum video, Charles Austen Angell of Modern Edge Inc. talks about establishing an innovation culture, whereby the creative process is enhanced by people from different departments working together. Read more

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Material Insights

N. American PET bottle resin prices fall 7 cents
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AKRON, OHIO — A recent drop in North American PET bottle resin prices is featured in this week's Material Insights video. Also this week, we... Watch Now

Automotive

S. Carolina firms merge to become Blue Ridge Thermoforming

GREENVILLE, S.C. — Two South Carolina thermoformers have merged and are moving operations to Greenville. The combined operation will be based...   Read more


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Medical-device OEMs look to the long run
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BOSTON — As the global health-care market continues to grow by nearly exponential rates, industry leaders are looking to move the U.S. medical-... Read more


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Film & Sheet

US demand for specialty film to reach $8 billion

CLEVELAND — Demand for specialty films in the US will grow 5.2 percent annually to reach $8 billion by 2017, buoyed by demand for high-...   Read more


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Mergers & Acquisitions

Ferro executives address company's future
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INDEPENDENCE, OHIO — Officials with specialty chemicals and plastics maker Ferro Corp. fielded questions from shareholders about the direction... Read more


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Machinery

KraussMaffei turns to service and financing in Brazil

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Expanding service staff and helping Brazilian clients find competitive financing overseas should help KraussMaffei Group...   Read more


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Which companies moved up in our 2013 recyclers' ranking?
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Plastics News has published our annual ranking of North American recyclers in today's print issue, so let's take the opportunity ... Read more


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Talent disconnect: industry/academia
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The competition for qualified workers is getting tougher. How can a manufacturer tackle the challenges?Read more

Injection Molding

Vanguard Plastics to get a Baxter robot
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SOUTHINGTON, CONN. — Vanguard Plastics Corp. in Southington will get one of the two-armed Baxter robots by late May or early June —... Read more


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Blow Molding

Amcor launches lightweight 64-ounce PET bottle

ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Amcor Rigid Plastics says it has created the lightest 64-ounce hot-fill PET container of its kind, weighing only 59 grams.   Read more


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Materials

Polyolefin supplier Borouge investing in Asia
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GUANGZHOU, CHINA — Polyolefin supplier Borouge has reorganized its China operations to reflect the growing importance of the region to its... Read more


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Recycling

Prime Plastic pursues scrap for recycling
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VISTA, CALIF. — Prime Plastic Products Inc. is not waiting for recycling sources to show up — it's going to them. Read more


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Recyclers & Brokers and Custom Compounders (Full Ranking and List) 2013

Access data on 224 recyclers including volume, percent reprocessed versus brokered, percent post-consumer versus post-industrial, and materials re-processed, as well as data on 237 compounders including materials processed and compounds manufactured.

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Plastics News' experts analyze North American thermoformed packaging sector performance and prospects for future growth. View analysis of processors operating within this segment as well as perspectives from industry though leaders on economic and political conditions, market trends, legislative/regulatory activity impacting supply and demand and manufacturing technology.

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