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Peter Mooney: Innovation, productivity the keys to success

Published: March 27, 2009 6:00 am ET
Updated: March 27, 2009 12:00 am ET

Plastics industry economist Peter Mooney, founder and head of Plastics Custom Research Services, suggests plenty of market opportunities await plastics processors, but he laments a lack of cooperation among supply-chain partners and the slow embrace of advanced and emerging technologies by many in the North American industry.

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