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NEW DELHI (Feb. 3, 12:50 p.m. ET) -- India’s largest plastics trade association and two American universities with prominent plastics engineering and material science programs signed an agreement Feb. 3 to help build an international-level university for polymers in western India.
February 3, 2012
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
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
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
BRUSSELS (Jan. 31, 1 p.m. ET) -- More than 70 percent of people surveyed in the European Union support a ban on plastic bags. The survey was done to explore options to reduce the use of plastic bags and how to improve the requirements of biodegradability under EU law, according to a news release.
January 31, 2012
TOLEDO, OHIO (Jan. 31, 1 p.m. ET) -- Canadian foamer Domfoam International Inc. has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US after flagging sales and a million-dollar fine over price-fixing led the company into insolvency.
January 31, 2012
MADRID (Jan. 31, 1 p.m. ET) -- Inspectors from the Investigations Division of Spain’s antitrust authority, the Comisión Nacional de la Competencia (CNC), have conducted inspections in various companies that produce and market elastomeric and polyurethane foam insulation.
January 31, 2012
BRUSSELS (Jan. 30, 3:15 p.m. ET) -- The European Commission is concerned that France has incorrectly implemented the definition of packaging and packaging waste in its national law, as required by European Union waste legislation.
January 30, 2012
DETROIT (Jan. 30, 2:50 p.m. ET) -- Denso Corp. and Yazaki Corp., two of Japan's largest auto-parts suppliers, have agreed to plead guilty in a widening multicontinent bid-rigging case, the U.S. Department of Justice said today.
January 30, 2012
WASHINGTON (Jan. 30, 1:20 p.m. ET) -- The amount of activity at the federal level affecting the plastics industry isn’t expected to be high this year, as election-year politics are likely to slow things to a crawl. But the industry has its eyes on several key issues, and is watching for new regulatory challenges and initiatives, particularly from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
January 30, 2012
WASHINGTON (Jan. 30, 1:05 p.m. ET) -- Plastic bag bans won’t be the only issue on the state and local legislative fronts that plastics will have to contend with this year. A number of communities are looking to ban PS takeout containers, several states are considering extended producer responsibility laws and many are looking to tax businesses. There are also issues involving access to energy and the cost of energy.
January 30, 2012
HOUSTON (Jan. 27, 12:30 p.m. ET) -- Window and door manufacturer Atrium Corp. of Dallas has agreed to pay $2 million in forfeited funds to settle a case of employing illegal immigrants.
January 27, 2012
CHICAGO (Jan. 27, 12:15 p.m. ET) -- A paper published in the
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports that elevated exposures to perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) in children are associated with reduced immune response to routine immunizations (tetanus and diphtheria) in children between 5-7 years old.
January 27, 2012
WASHINGTON (Jan. 26, 2:10 p.m. ET) -- If there was any question about whether plastic bag bans would continue to be the most visible and vexing issue that confronts the plastics industry at the local and state level, those doubts were erased in late January.
January 26, 2012
HOUSTON (Jan. 26, 1 p.m. ET) -- Kevin Swift, chief economist for the American Chemistry Council, will discuss shale gas and anticipated manufacturing renaissance in North America at FlexPO Houston 2012, scheduled for March 29-30.
January 26, 2012
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