WASHINGTON -- Dropping their dueling bills, two senators on Wednesday introduced a new measure that would modernize the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) by requiring new tests for chemicals already on the market and granting broad new regulatory authority to the Environmental Protection Agency.
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Two South Carolina thermoformers have merged and are moving operations to Greenville. The combined operation will be based in the former PFC-Systems Inc. plant, which had specialized in heavy-gauge thermoforming for a range of industries. PFC merged with Blue Ridge Packaging, which focused on thin gauge thermoforming in...
INDEPENDENCE, OHIO — Officials with specialty chemicals and plastics maker Ferro Corp. fielded questions from shareholders about the direction of the company at the firm's annual meeting, held May 22 in Independence.
SOUTHINGTON, CONN. — Vanguard Plastics Corp. in Southington will get one of the two-armed Baxter robots by late May or early June — putting the small custom molder on the map as an early adopter of the brand new technology.
GUANGZHOU, CHINA — Materials firm A. Schulman Inc. is in the midst of an expansion that is more than doubling capacity at its compounding plant in Dongguan, China, part of a broader effort to make Asia a much larger portion of global sales.
GUANGZHOU, CHINA — Chinese compounder Kingfa Sci. & Tech. Co. Ltd. is in advanced negotiations to make an investment in Indian compounder Hydro S&S Industries Ltd., in what would be its first production outside China, executives from both companies said May 22.
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL — Pavan Zanetti, one of the Brazilian market's top producers of injection and blow molding machines, displayed new models and renewed confidence in Brazilian demand bouncing back this year after two straight years of sales declines.
GUANGZHOU, CHINA — Polyolefin supplier Borouge has reorganized its China operations to reflect the growing importance of the region to its global business.
CLEVELAND — Demand for specialty films in the US will grow 5.2 percent annually to reach $8 billion by 2017, buoyed by demand for high-performance barrier films, according to a new report.
SCHAFFHAUSEN, SWITZERLAND — Global pipe systems group Georg Fischer has announced it is purchasing a majority stake in Hakan Plastik, a leading supplier of plastic pipes to the growing markets of Turkey, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
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