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LyondellBasell looks to add 1.2B pounds of new PE capacity

April 29, 2013 1:32 pm ET

AKRON, OHIO — Still more potential new polyethylene capacity for North America is featured in this week's Material Insights video. Also this week, we report on PlastiComp LLC's addition of a new compounding line, as well as news that Toray Industries Inc. is developing a PBT resin with some bio-based content.


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Speakers say veterans are largely untapped labor pool

April 24, 2013 1:49 pm ET

TAMPA, FLA. — Dennis May, above, a retired Air Force colonel, trains employers to hire veterans. May joined U.S. Army veteran Andy Corbett and Kim Miller of Uniform Color Co. in this Executive Forum video in which they suggest that veterans can be a good fit for plastics industry jobs.


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PE film grade prices rise in North America

April 22, 2013 12:37 pm ET

AKRON, OHIO — A price increase on film grades of North American polyethylene resin is featured in this week's Material Insights video. Another proposed materials plant for Appalachia also is featured, as well as news of a business uptick at International Process Plants.


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Flint sees service as key to good leadership

April 17, 2013 11:19 am ET

TAMPA, FLA. — “Servant leadership” is not a new idea, but plastics veteran Bill Flint believes the management style is needed now more than ever. Flint, above, detailed the style in this video from the Plastics News Executive Forum in Tampa.


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Kuraray building PVOH plant; PolyOne opens Middle East JV

April 15, 2013 3:39 pm ET

A shale gas-related expansion from Kuraray America and PolyOne's move into Saudi Arabia are featured in this week's Material Insights video. Also, A. Schulman releases financial results for the first half of its fiscal year and Sabic is working with MIT on processes using unconventional feedstocks.


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Recruiter Riendeau offers do's, don'ts of hiring

April 10, 2013 3:43 pm ET

TAMPA, FLA. -- Little things can make a big difference for plastics firms in the hiring processes, says industry veteran Russ Riendeau, above, in this PN Executive Forum video from Tampa.


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Contract for Schulman's Gingo could hinge on Ferro deal

April 8, 2013 3:11 pm ET

A possible contract extension for A. Schulman CEO Joseph Gingo is featured in this week's Material Insights video. Analysts offer outlooks for PVC, PET, polycarbonate and ABS resins, and International Process Plants hunts a buyer for two former Vinyls Italia plants.


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Panel talks recruitment, retention

April 5, 2013 6:00 am ET

TAMPA, FLA. — To attract the best talent, executives need to clearly communicate their companies' core values, encourage involvement in the community and go where the candidates are looking, said industry officials, including Dickten Masch's Doreen Lettau, above, in this video from the Plastics News Executive Forum in Tampa.


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PVC prices up, as PP loses February increase

April 1, 2013 3:00 pm ET

AKRON, OHIO — Opposite moves in North American PVC and PP resin pricing are featured in this week's Material Insights video. Also this week, news from the IHS World Petrochemical Conference in Houston, including about the shale gas boom that is fueling ExxonMobil PE expansion plans, and forecasts from IHS consultants on the future of polyolef...


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Keller details welfare-to-work effort

March 27, 2013 1:11 pm ET

TAMPA, FLA. — Cascade Engineering Inc. in Grand Rapids, Mich., is a pioneer in moving people from welfare to work, giving ex-convicts a chance and hiring military veterans. In this video from Plastics News' Executive Forum in Tampa, Fred Keller talks about understanding poverty, and explains how the so-called “soft skills” of huma...


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