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Material Insights: May 31, 2011

Published: May 31, 2011 6:00 am ET
Updated: May 31, 2011 12:00 am ET

Dow Chemical's successful test of using plastic film scrap as a fuel source is featured in this week's Plastics News' Material Insights. The video also covers Bayer Material Science's groundbreaking for a new polyurethanes systems house in Qingdao, China. Also, the former controller of compounder Gitto Global was sentenced to four years in jail for his role in a multiyear fraud at the now-defunct firm. Senior reporter Frank Esposito has the latest on the long-running federal case.

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