Tue, 22 May 2012 23:08:33 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/ http://www.plasticsnews.com/images/smpncom.gif http://www.plasticsnews.com/ 144 Plastics News http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25512 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25512 SCHAFFHAUSEN, SWITZERLAND (May 22, 3:55 p.m. ET) -- For the second time in six months, Swiss industrial firm Georg Fischer AG has purchased a U.S.-based plastic pipe maker. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Tue, 22 May 2012 15:57:00 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25503 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25503 CHICAGO (May 21, 5:05 p.m. ET) -- PET recycler Pure Tech Plastics LLC has slowed production as it looks for a buyer, just two months after it was sued by beverage giant Coca-Cola Co. for breach of contract. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Mon, 21 May 2012 17:03:18 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25494 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25494 KENOSHA, WIS. (May 21, 12 p.m. ET) -- Xten Industries LLC has expanded its injection molding business by acquiring Paramount Plastics LLC of Lockport, Ill. Paramount, with annual sales of $18 million, specializes in large-tonnage molding using engineering resins, especially for automotive markets. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Mon, 21 May 2012 12:09:44 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25493 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25493 WESTLAKE, OHIO (May 21, 12 p.m. ET) -- Nordson Corp. has entered into an agreement to purchase Extrusion Dies Industries LLC, which makes flat dies and extrusion coating dies, Westlake-based Nordson announced May 21. Nordson is paying $200 million for EDI Holdings Inc., but the final price is subject to adjustment, as provided in the purchase agreement. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Mon, 21 May 2012 12:02:49 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25487 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25487 CLEVELAND (May 18, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- An investor lawsuit centers on this question: What caused financial problems that led to the sale of Wisconsin pallet thermoformer TriEnda LLC a year ago? The legal fight pits some of the thermoforming industry’s best-known people: Curtis Zamec, Donald Kruschke and his late brother, Neil Kruschke Jr. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Fri, 18 May 2012 14:14:51 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25483 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25483 CALGARY, ALBERTA (May 18, 1:30 p.m. ET) -- Nova Chemicals Corp.’s UPES-brand additive resin is not included in the recently announced sale of Nova’s performance styrenics business to PFB Corp. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Fri, 18 May 2012 13:34:26 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25479 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25479 ASHLAND, OHIO (May 17, 2 p.m. ET) -- Rotational molder Hedstrom Plastics, in recent years, has purchased small custom molders, an exercise ball business, and now something really big -- rotomolded trash dumpsters. Hedstrom recently bought Nuwave Container LLC from Richard Maggio, who will stay on as a consultant. Terms were not disclosed. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Thu, 17 May 2012 14:08:13 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25469 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25469 WILKESBORO, N.C. (May 16, 3:35 p.m. ET) -- Flexible packaging convertor Interflex Group Inc. has been purchased by private equity firm Nicolet Capital Partners LLC of Chicago. Interflex was previously by Red Diamond Capital Inc., a private equity firm based in New York. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Wed, 16 May 2012 15:38:24 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25467 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25467 TOKYO (Updated May 18, 2:20 p.m. ET) -- Prime Polymer Co. Ltd. -- a resin and compounding joint venture majority owned by Japanese conglomerate Mitsui Chemicals Inc. -- has acquired a controlling stake in a Brazilian compounder. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Wed, 16 May 2012 15:32:00 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25466 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25466 WORMS, GERMANY (May 16, 3:15 p.m. ET) -- German plastic films producer Renolit AG is reinforcing its position in the global medical sector by acquiring the medical films division of China-based Austar Pharma & Medical Consumables. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Wed, 16 May 2012 15:26:29 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25462 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25462 ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. (May 15, 5:40 p.m. ET) -- D&W Fine Pack LLC has purchased Clear Lam Packaging Inc.’s thermoforming division. The thermoforming division has annual sales of approximately $80 million and is a major supplier of PET and PLA food packaging. The sale includes facilities in Elk Grove Village; Vernon, Calif.; and Nanjing, China. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Tue, 15 May 2012 17:40:02 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25450 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25450 CHICAGO (May 14, 5:30 p.m. ET) -- Container and closures supplier Berlin Packaging LLC has acquired Lerman Container, a packaging distributor based in Naugatuck, Conn. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Mon, 14 May 2012 17:28:33 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25447 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25447 MASON, MICH. (May 14, 3:55 p.m. ET) -- From a cinder block building in Mason, the Dart family built an industrial monolith from humble beginnings and a humble product: the foam cup that lets a person hold hot coffee. But while that ever-reliable cup, made from expandable polystyrene foam, has served Dart Container Corp. well over the past 50 years, a question mark looms large as the company begins the next 50. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Mon, 14 May 2012 15:58:09 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25430 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25430 BAXTER, MINN. (May 11, 2 p.m. ET) -- Thermoformer Lindar Corp. has purchased neighbor and rotational mold maker Lakeland Mold Co. The acquisition opens up the possibility of synergy between the two companies. Lakeland offers some services that Lindar had previously outsourced, and the two companies will be able to share people and talent across boundaries. info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Fri, 11 May 2012 14:11:12 -0400 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25422 http://www.plasticsnews.com/headlines2.html?ncat=271&id=25422 MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (May 10, 3:20 p.m. ET) -- Industrial services company Spotless Group Ltd. has bowed to shareholder pressure and agreed to sell 100 percent of its shares to Pacific Equity Partners Pty. Ltd. (PEP). info@plasticsnews.com (Plastics News) Thu, 10 May 2012 15:21:13 -0400