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CINCINNATI (Feb. 2, 12:45 p.m. ET) -- Procter & Gamble Co. gave Gillette Fusion ProGlide’s packaging a “future friendly” facelift by reducing plastic and incorporating moldable pulp. With 57 percent less plastic than the original clamshell outer packaging and razor tray, the redesign is made of fibrous materials such as bamboo, sugar cane and bulrush. The result is a 20 percent reduction in gross weight and overall reduction of packaging material.
February 2, 2012
LYNCHBURG, VA. (Feb. 1, 3:55 p.m. ET) -- Tessy Plastics LLC is expanding its Lynchburg plant by nearly 50 percent to take aim at the medical disposables market and so that it has more capacity to grow the other parts of its business.
February 1, 2012
DENVER (Feb. 1, 1:15 p.m. ET) -- When you double your business in one year, it is tough to say that you can do it again. However, that’s exactly what Intertech Plastics Inc. is saying it can do. With sales doubling to $20 million in 2011, President Noel Ginsburg says he expects the total to rise to $38 million to $40 million by the end of this year.
February 1, 2012
SHELTON, CONN. (Feb. 1, 12:15 p.m. ET) -- The first disposable razor in the U.S. to use 100 percent recycled materials in both its handle and its packaging is expected to keep more than 103,000 pounds of virgin plastics and 15,500 pounds of virgin paper from going into landfills each year.
February 1, 2012
LAS VEGAS (Jan. 31, 3:25 p.m. ET) -- Designers continue to use materials, including plastics, in creative ways
as they pursue cost-effective, customer-grabbing appearances for personal computers. “Some non-plastics material is harder to work” and may involve complex and costly casting and curing processes. Notebook vendors will continue to use plastic in mid- and low-end products, one expert said.
January 31, 2012
LAS VEGAS (Jan. 31, 2:50 p.m. ET) -- A subsidiary of Bayer MaterialScience LLC is exploring automotive and medical applications for its ViviTouch-brand actuator, now used in an external case for Apple Inc.’s fourth-generation iPod Touch device.
January 31, 2012
AKRON, OHIO (Updated Jan. 31, 2:40 p.m. ET) -- Newell Rubbermaid Inc.'s $25 million expansion planned for Mogadore, Ohio, will include work being relocated from the company's Greenville, Texas, plant, which is slated to close in mid-year. The former Rubbermaid Home Products unit is moving injection molding work from Greenville to plants in Mogadore and Winfield, Kan.
January 31, 2012
MIDLAND, MICH. (Jan. 31, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- Dow Chemical Co. plans to introduce an anti-scratch additive for compounding with polycarbonate to compete with ultraviolet-light-cured PC hard coatings. Potential applications for additive-enhanced PC include electronic-device housings and touch screens, automotive components such as knobs and dashboards, and eyeglass optics.
January 31, 2012
AKRON, OHIO (Jan. 30, 9:15 p.m. ET) -- Newell Rubbermaid Inc. is once again investing in one of its U.S. manufacturing plants -- this time the expansion will be in Ohio. The company announced on Jan. 30 that it will invest more than $25 million and add nearly 140 full-time jobs to its existing injection molding plant in Mogadore, Ohio, near Akron.
January 30, 2012
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.
January 27, 2012
HONG KONG (Jan. 26, 1:30 p.m. ET) — The classic American plastic yo-yo is becoming big business in China. With savvy promotion by Chinese toy companies, the market has grown from barely a blip six years ago to one of the largest, with one U.S. firm saying China is now the world’s top selling yo-yo market. Check out a
video interview with Duncan Toys Co.'s Mike Burke at the Hong Kong Toy Fair.
January 26, 2012
GHAZIPUR, BANGLADESH (Jan. 26, 12:30 p.m. ET) -- Meghna Group has set up a plastic hanger making joint venture with Italy’s Mainetti Group. The joint-venture, Meghna Mainetti Ltd., has the capacity to manufacture about 6.5 million plastic hangers per month.
January 26, 2012
VANTAA, FINLAND (Jan. 26, 11:45 a.m. ET) -- Uponor Deutschland GmbH is selling its Hewing GmbH unit, based in Ochtrup, Germany, for 11.9 million euros ($15.6 million).
January 26, 2012
WOODSTOCK, ILL. (Jan. 25, 11:10 a.m. ET) -- Daniel Slavin, the second-generation president and CEO of family-owned custom packaging thermoformer Dordan Manufacturing Co. Inc., wants more growth and more profits — just like anyone else who runs a company. But what is equally as important to Slavin, if not more important, is to make sure the company’s beliefs, culture and hard- work ethic stay ingrained in its workforce.
January 25, 2012
BILLUND, DENMARK (Jan. 24, 11 a.m. ET) -- Global toy maker Lego A/S is moving ahead with plans to build a 125 million euro ($162 million), 860,000 square foot factory in Nyíregyháza, Hungary, to mold Duplo and Lego products.
January 24, 2012
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