Crain Communications Inc., founded in 1916, is the parent company of Plastics News. One of North America's largest and most respected family-owned business publishing companies, Crain has 30 publications and more than 1,000 employees. Based in Detroit, Michigan, USA, the company continues to provide readers with the best in unbiased business news publishing. Newspapers published by Crain Communications include Advertising Age, Automotive News, Rubber & Plastics News and Urethanes Technology, as well as a business paper in Germany. Visit the Crain corporate Web site for more information.

About Plastics News

Plastics News Plastics News, a weekly newspaper founded in Akron, Ohio, in 1989 by Crain Communications Inc., covers the business of the global plastics industry. It focuses on commercial, financial, legislative and market-related developments worldwide that affect North American plastic product manufacturers and their suppliers and customers. The publication's mission is to report completely, promptly, fairly and accurately, and to provide plastics industry officials with the market information and competitive intelligence they need to do their jobs more effectively. Plastics News has a 14-person editorial staff, plus news correspondents around the world. With more than 60,000 weekly print subscribers, it is the North American plastics industry's leader in readership, circulation and advertising revenue. PlasticsNews.com & related e-mail products The PlasticsNews.com Web site, launched in 1996, is a global channel for daily - and sometimes hourly - news updates in English. Various free e-mail alert services (including Plastics News Daily NewsMail and the weekly Plastics News Materials Alert) provide regular English-language headlines and summaries to interested readers worldwide. Plastics News China eWeekly is a free, weekly e-mail newsletter and Web-based news service in both simplified Chinese and English, targeting plastics and design managers in Greater China. PlasticsNews.com/China is a companion Web site Plastics News events Plastics News organizes several events in the United States, including its annual, CEO-level Executive Forum and its Plastics Encounter regional trade shows and conferences. These serve as forums for the presentation of new products and ideas and for independent discussion of issues of concern to the industry. Plastics News-sponsored awards Plastics News presents two awards annually – its Plastics News Processor of the Year Award, delivered to a worthy North American plastics processor in a ceremony at the Executive Forum, and the IDSA/Plastics News Design Award, given out each spring at the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc.'s Structural Plastics Division Conference. The latter award is co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America. Contact us Click here if you have a question or need further information about Plastics News or its products and services.