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Friday, January 27, 2012
Chairman Herman Lo displays Fu Hong Industries' food-dispensing teether. Hong says the firm began developing its own child-care brands for China's domestic customers in response to a declining export market. (Plastics News photo by Steve Toloken)

HONG KONG (Jan. 27, 2:10 p.m. ET) -- An ambitious but risky move into China’s domestic market making its own brand of plastic child-care products has given Hong Kong-based injection molder Fu Hong Industries Ltd. a solid growth strategy, the company says. (more)

GEORGETOWN, ONTARIO (Jan. 27, 4:50 p.m. ET) -- Mold-Masters Ltd. has just completed a $20 million expansion of its Kunshan, China, hotrunner plant. The firm added 68,000 square feet and a range of machinery including CNC lathes and mills at the site, which was established in 2005. (more)

KINGSPORT, TENN. (Jan. 27, 9:30 a.m. ET) -- Specialty plastics and chemicals maker Eastman Chemical Co. has acquired Solutia Inc. -- a maker of specialty plastic films and specialty chemicals -- for almost $3.4 billion. (more)

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