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CLIFTON, N.J. (Feb. 3, 12:15 p.m. ET) -- Injection molder Polymer Technologies Inc. has acquired injection molding toolmaker Polmold Tool Inc., adding new capabilities in tooling that will allow PTI to bring increased understanding and capabilities in mold-making in-house.
February 3, 2012
MOUNT GILEAD, OHIO (Feb. 3, 12:10 p.m. ET) -- After a year of investigation, the Morrow County Prosecutor’s office has decided not to file charges against Christopher Filos, the former owner of the now-shuttered HPM machinery company.
February 3, 2012
HUDSON, WIS. (Feb. 3, 12 p.m. ET) -- Giant injection molder Phillips Plastics Corp. -- which gets 75 percent of its $500 million in annual sales from the medical business -- is changing its name to Phillips-Medisize Corp.
February 3, 2012
BATAVIA, OHIO (Feb. 2, 2:45 p.m. ET) -- Milacron LLC is adding production of its Magna Servo injection presses to the United States.
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
TAMPA, FLA. (Feb. 1, 10:15 a.m. ET) — Steinwall Inc. of Coon Rapids, Minn., is
Plastics News’ latest Processor of the Year, the newspaper announced at a Jan. 31 ceremony and reception during its Executive Forum. Check out video features of POY winner
Steinwall, as well as finalists
Bemis Manufacturing Co. and
Rodon Group LLC.
February 1, 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
LAKE FOREST, ILL. (Jan. 31, 2 p.m. ET) -- Solo Cup Co. has hired CBRE Inc. to auction its former headquarters in Highland Park, Ill, about three years after the collapse of an earlier deal to sell the property.
January 31, 2012
BRUSSELS (Jan. 31, 1 p.m. ET) -- In Brussels in December, many speakers at the Plastics in Medical Devices conference agreed that the developed markets, unlike in many other areas of the plastics industry, will lead growth in medical plastics.
January 31, 2012
DETROIT (Jan. 31, 1 p.m. ET) -- On top of the of the $548 million in fines issued by the U.S. Department of Justice Monday, executives from Denso Corp. and Yazaki Corp. will take temporary pay cuts due to their involvement in global antitrust investigations.
January 31, 2012
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA (Jan. 31, 8 a.m.ET) -- The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has delayed releasing its findings into three separate proposed acquisitions of plastics companies.
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
KRONACH-NEUSES, GERMANY (Jan. 30, 3:30 p.m. ET) -- German auto supplier Dr. Schneider Group will spend 5 million euros to open new manufacturing facilities in China and Mexico. CEO Klaus Fricke said the plants answer requests from customers to expand with them in China and North America. "We are following them and becoming one of the very few automotive plastics suppliers with a global production network," Fricke said.
January 30, 2012
JABLONEC NAD NISOU, CZECH REPUBLIC (Jan. 30, 3:15 p.m. ET) -- Automotive plastics parts processor Megatech Industries has got the green light to expand production at its Czech Republic molding plant in Jablonec nad Nisou.
January 30, 2012
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