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SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF. (Feb. 3, 12:15 p.m. ET) -- The Save the Plastic Bag Coalition has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to overturn the ban on plastic bags in San Luis Obispo County, California.
February 3, 2012
ATLANTA (Feb. 3, 11:50 a.m. ET) -- Coca-Cola Co. is increasing the amount of money it allocates to its bin grant program that helps municipalities, communities, organizations, government agencies, schools, colleges and universities purchase recycling bins to $350,000.
February 3, 2012
MIDLAND, MICH. (Feb. 2, 4 p.m. ET) -- Dow Chemical Co. has wrapped up a 2011 financial year in which its company-leading Performance Plastics unit produced mixed results.
February 2, 2012
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. (Feb. 2, 2:30 p.m. ET) -- About six months later than anticipated, CarbonLite Industries LLC has opened its $58 million bottle-to-bottle PET recycling plant in Riverside. The 220,000-square-foot plant -- the largest PET recycling plant in the United States -- will initially produce 75 million pounds of food-grade resin annually.
February 2, 2012
BRANFORD, CONN. (Feb. 2, 2:20 p.m. ET) -- Canusa Hershman Recycling Co. has acquired a building, equipment and other assets of First State Plastics Inc. in New Castle, Del.
February 2, 2012
MUMBAI, INDIA (Feb. 2, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- Binani Industries Ltd., an Indian holding company with a range of commercial interests ranging from plastics to mining, has bought Battice, Belgium-based 3B Fibreglass for 275 million euros ($362 million).
February 2, 2012
AS, CZECH REPUBLIC (Feb. 2, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- Plastics packaging technology specialist Petainer Czech Holdings sro has developed a PET refillable bottle, claiming to “further improve the sustainability of what is already one of the most environmentally friendly forms of beverage packaging.”
February 2, 2012
SAN ANTONIO (Feb. 2, 1 p.m. ET) -- Plug-in electric cars and hybrids may be getting most of the attention now, but carmakers say they still are investing in future car developments that could use another technology that has been on the automotive back burner for years. “Hydrogen fuel cells are being talked about for the near future,” Hyundai Motor Co.’s North American leader John Krafcik said during the North American International Auto Show.
February 2, 2012
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
RICHMOND, IND. (Feb. 2, 10:15 a.m. ET) -- Perpetual Recycling Solutions will open its first plastics recycling facility -- a 110-million pound food-grade recycled PET plant in Richmond -- to fill what it sees as a void in the commercial market. The $30 million, 100,000-square-plant has been in the planning stages for more than 16 months and was announced at a Feb. 2 news conference
February 2, 2012
SAN ANTONIO (Feb. 1, 5 p.m. ET) -- Thermoset plastics are in a good position to capitalize on new markets in the auto, aerospace, electronics and other industries, but to take full advantage of that position, producers must learn to work together, some industry leaders say.
February 1, 2012
SAN ANTONIO (Feb. 1, 4:30 p.m. ET) -- Making a concept composite floor structure for sedans is one thing, but the engineers and companies involved with the Automotive Composites Consortium also wanted to make sure the concept could fit into existing auto-manufacturing lines. So as part of the nearly six-year project to develop a structural composite automotive underbody, the members also developed a process to attach it to a steel body structure.
February 1, 2012
HOUSTON (Feb. 1, 3:25 p.m. ET) -- Westlake Chemical Corp.’s second offer to buy competitor Georgia Gulf Corp. received the same response as the first did: A resounding “no.”
February 1, 2012
NEW DELHI (Feb. 1, 1:15 p.m. ET) -- If emerging markets are supposed to provide an economic lift to the world economy these days, India’s plastics sector seems ready to oblige, with its leaders opening the PlastIndia trade show Feb. 1 by predicting they’ll maintain double digit growth over the next decade. Led by that growth, they said that PlastIndia has now become the third-largest plastics show in the world, trailing Germany’s K Fair and the Chinaplas exhibition.
February 1, 2012
JHAGADIA, INDIA (Jan. 31, 6:50 p.m. ET) -- The western Indian state of Gujarat is fast emerging as the next major auto hub. Lanxess AG is tapping into the market with local production, opening an engineering resins compounding plant in Jhagadia on Jan. 31. The company also revealed plans to build a compounding plant in Brazil.
January 31, 2012
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