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Processor of the Year

MOST-READ STORIES

Massive Toyota recall centers on plastic friction device February 03, 2010
Audi's Super Bowl commercials blast single-use plastic products February 07, 2010
WalMart food-bag consolidation wipes Glad, Hefty from shelves February 04, 2010
Silgan closing Port Clinton, Ohio, plant February 02, 2010
Dow to locate solar shingle plant in Michigan February 03, 2010

MOST E-MAILED STORIES

WalMart food-bag consolidation wipes Glad, Hefty from shelves February 04, 2010
Silgan closing Port Clinton, Ohio, plant February 02, 2010
Massive Toyota recall centers on plastic friction device February 03, 2010
Yazaki to make fuel tanks in Georgia February 03, 2010
PVC and PET prices rise in January February 04, 2010

Viewpoints

Do you need a bag? Yeah, make it plastic

It’s legislative season in most U.S. state capitals, so we’re starting to see a flurry of bills being proposed to tax or ban plastic bags.

Supply-chain trends among forum topics

The economic tsunami of the past year or so has prompted many North American manufacturers to reassess their strategies on outsourcing, offshoring and, now — using the term for the month — “backshoring.”

Private equity firms on prowl once more

Industry pros contacted by Plastics News for this week’s M&A special report said they expect private equity to play a larger role this year — and they apparently weren’t kidding.

Some good news in the plastics industry

Let's call this our “three cheers” column. I’ll highlight a few good-news stories featured recently in “The Plastics Blog,” ones about the Iowa Grocery Industry Association, Essel Propak Ltd. and Plastic Logic LLC.

Here are your picks: top PN stories of 2009

At the beginning of a new year, newspapers often take a moment to review the stories and headlines that editors considered most important in the previous 12 months. But rather than me telling you what I consider the top stories of the year, let me share what you, the readers of PlasticsNews.com, considered the biggest news. Here are the 20 most-read stories from our Web site last year.

Here's our wish list for industry health

With our first issue of 2010, Plastics News restates and updates its agenda for the industry.

As the Globe turns: a zany look back at '09

As the year winds down, we present our annual Plastic Globe awards, a celebration of dubious or otherwise unusual news from 2009.

Something needs to change in 2010

Plastics News senior reporter Bill Bregar checks in on the state of the U.S. plastics machinery industry is we head into the new year.

And now, for something completely different

Plastics News Managing Editor Don Loepp shares his thoughts on the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc.’s decision to move the 2012 and 2015 NPE shows to Orlando, Fla.

Can Chicago change enough to keep NPE?

Pressure is building on Chicago to find a way to keep the 2012 and 2015 NPE shows. On Nov. 11, news leaked out that the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society will hold its 2012 gathering in Las Vegas instead of Chicago, because of the high cost of labor at Chicago’s McCormick Place.

IP piracy undermines China's home market

Chinese leaders talk a lot about developing an innovation economy, but at least one expert on intellectual property policy believes that won’t happen unless China develops and enforces stronger laws to protect innovation.

Get ready for more machinery consolidation

In plastics, screw and barrel sales are a leading economic indicator for broader capital spending. I think there’s another predictive relationship between screws and barrels and consolidation in industries suffering from overcapacity.

North, South make plays for NPE show

Will the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. vote to move the NPE 2012 and 2015 shows to Orlando, Fla.? Or will Chicago manage to keep the show in McCormick Place? Not surprisingly, this story is getting a lot of attention. Almost everyone seems to have an opinion.

Plastics do a 180 during wild '09 ride

Investors skilled at buying “on the dip” profited handsomely from the plastics market this year. Once Wall Street decided that the world wasn’t going to end in early March, the market began a steady climb that peaked in mid-September and remains well above its earlier depths.

There's a method to resin-pricing madness

It’s time once again to pull back the curtain and reveal the mysteries of how Plastics News generates the prices on its resin pricing chart. This is an update of a column I’ve written twice since joining PN in 1997, but it remains a topic that I’m asked about fairly often.

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