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By Design: IDSA 2010
Local Motors' CEO Rogers describes radical new car design/build process.
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Material Insights
PolyOne to rate suppliers; American Compounding, Intergroup moving.
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By Design: IDSA 2010
Geocell Systems' Al Arellanes on its award-winning PCTG flood wall.
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By Design: IDSA 2010
Modo Inc.'s Bob Marchant on design's role in medical environments.
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Material Insights
LyondellBasell overseas; DuPont PVF; Kraton Asian copolymer plant.
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By Design: IDSA 2010
Incoming IDSA president talks about using plastics materials to teach.
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Material Insights
N. American PP/PS; Braskem strike; LyondellBasell earnings.
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News & Features
Supplier Cooper Standard works out post-recession automotive scene.
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Plastics News' weekly series is about anything related to North American materials: supply, demand, pricing, mergers and acquisitions, novel applications, new resins, compounding or distribution news or trends, etc. Akron, Ohio-based senior reporter Frank Esposito, who covers those topics, is the program's primary host.
This weekly series of Plastics News videos was produced as the result of interviews with industry presenters and attendees at the Industrial Designers Society of America 2010 conference in Portland, Ore.
These features from Plastics News Global Group's inaugural North American medical devices conference, held in April 2010 in Westlake, Ohio, focus on the supply chain -- from polymer and equipment suppliers and plastics processors to product designers, device makers and pharmaceutical OEMs.
This video series includes interviews with several speakers at PN's annual industry conference in March 2010 in Tampa, Fla., discussing the latest developments in emerging Asian and Middle Eastern markets, as well as bioplastics' future and resin trends.
These video features offer a glimpse into the production facilities and the business philosophies of the four 2009 finalist companies: GW Plastics Inc. of Bethel, Vt.; Montrose Molders Corp. of South Plainfield, N.J.; Plastikos Inc. of Erie, Pa.; and repeat finalist PolyPipe Inc. of Gainesville, Texas. Top executives from all four firms share their recession-fighting techniques in interviews with Plastics News.
These videos were culled from interviews and speaker presentations the Dulles, Va.-based Industrial Designers Society of America's 2009 conference in Miami. This PN original weekly series features design leaders from North America and beyond, as well as materials and plastics industry officials, educators and students.
Plastics News Global Group posted 17 news and feature videos from the show floor during the NPE2009 exhibition in Chicago. PN's team of reporters worked with videographer Steve Raddock to help tell the story from McCormick Place.
This series, shot at PN's 2009 Executive Forum, offers insights from industry executives, consultants, analysts and attorneys on everything from coping with bankruptcy pressures and supply-chain disruptions to entering new markets.
These features offer a glimpse inside the plants and into the managerial approaches of the top executives from the three 2008 finalist companies -- Sherl Hill of Freelin-Wade Co., Jim Moore of Polypipe Inc., and Tom Duffey, of POY award winner Plastic Components Inc.
Skillful design is the engine driving many products to market. In these clips -- shot primarily at the Industrial Designers Society of America's 2008 annual conference in Phoenix -- designers, educators, students and several OEMs discuss concept, strategy and execution, as well as the plastics industry's interaction with the design community.
Hear about sustainability and "green" practices from processors, OEMs, resin suppliers, designers, consultants, recyclers and an FTC official who spoke at the Plastics News/SPI Sustain '08 conference in Chicago.
Recorded at TEMPI 2008, the "Townsend Emerging Markets for the Plastics Industry" conference in Las Vegas, this seven-part series offers insights into some of the world's most-promising plastics markets.