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- Bag maker Hilex reorganizes under Chapter 11 (05-07-2008)
HARTSVILLE, S.C. (May 7, 11:05 a.m. EDT) -- Hilex Poly Co. LLC, faced with a debt-heavy balance sheet, is restructuring its senior secured debt under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The world’s biggest plastic bag maker says it will save annual interest costs of $17 million and significantly improve cash flow. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Georgia Gulf still selling assets, cutting costs (05-07-2008)
ATLANTA (May 7, 11:10 a.m. EDT) -- Continued poor results have led Georgia Gulf Corp. to close a PVC resin plant in Oklahoma City, and to sell a number of other assets, including its outdoor storage buildings business. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Q1 machinery statistics open to interpretation (05-06-2008)
NAPA, CALIF. (May 6, 1:20 p.m. EDT) -- Psychologists could have a field day with first-quarter 2008 U.S. plastics machinery statistics. How you might choose to interpret them would reveal a lot about whether you are a pessimist or an optimist. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Ossid exec White dies after motorcycle crash (05-06-2008)
FUQUAY-VARINA, N.C. (May 6, 10:30 a.m. EDT) -- Michael Steven White, 49, vice president and general manager of Ossid Corp., died April 21 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- ITW Foils relocating Canadian production (05-06-2008)
WINDSOR, ONTARIO (May 6, 11 a.m. EDT) -- ITW Foils will close its Windsor hot-stamping foils production operation and move it to three U.S. facilities in Michigan and Illinois. Production is scheduled to stop June 27. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- SCGM expanding in Malaysia, Thailand (05-06-2008)
GUANGZHOU, CHINA (May 6, 11:45 a.m. EDT) -- Malaysian thermoformer SCGM Bhd. plans to build a factory in Thailand and expand its extrusion capacity in Malaysia, using some of the nearly 12.9 million Malaysian ringgits (US$4.1 million) it raised from a public offering earlier this year. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- DuPont invests $150 million in ethylene copolymers (05-07-2008)
WILMINGTON, DEL. (May 7, 3:35 p.m. EDT) -- DuPont Co. is investing $150 million to grow its ethylene copolymer business in the U.S., Europe and Asia. In total, work at four sites is expected to increase DuPont’s total annual ethylene copolymer capacity by more than 200 million pounds. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Early thermoformer Glenn Blackburn dies at 84 (05-06-2008)
WINTER HAVEN, FLA. (May 6, 11:40 a.m. EDT) -- Glenn George Blackburn, 84, a thermoforming industry pioneer, died April 13. Blackburn developed processes for thermoforming, and helped develop packaging films. Beginning in 1966, he had several successful plastics companies including Haines Industries, Winter Haven Plastics, Rebel Plastics, Blackburn Industries and Progress Plastics. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Revcor VP Eschborn dies of cancer at 56 (05-07-2008)
CARPENTERSVILLE, ILL. (May 7, 8:45 a.m. EDT) -- Archie Helmut Eschborn, 56, vice president of sales and marketing for Revcor Inc., died recently at his home in Carpentersville, following a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Oak Engineered outsources its molding (05-08-2008)
OAKDALE, PA. (May 8, 9:05 a.m. EDT) -- Oak Engineered Products Inc. is no longer a manufacturer, but will continue to sell its product line. The firm now will rely on Penn North Plastics Inc. of Reno, Pa., to manufacture most of its lines. Oak sold most of its machinery at an April 3 auction, but kept its molds. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
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- Bag maker Hilex reorganizes under Chapter 11 (05-07-2008)
HARTSVILLE, S.C. (May 7, 11:05 a.m. EDT) -- Hilex Poly Co. LLC, faced with a debt-heavy balance sheet, is restructuring its senior secured debt under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The world’s biggest plastic bag maker says it will save annual interest costs of $17 million and significantly improve cash flow. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Georgia Gulf still selling assets, cutting costs (05-07-2008)
ATLANTA (May 7, 11:10 a.m. EDT) -- Continued poor results have led Georgia Gulf Corp. to close a PVC resin plant in Oklahoma City, and to sell a number of other assets, including its outdoor storage buildings business. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Silver Line laying off 60% of staff at Texas plant (05-08-2008)
GARLAND, TEXAS (May 8, 5:10 p.m. EDT) -- The nation’s largest vinyl window maker is laying off 251 workers at its Garland plant. Silver Line Building Products Corp. officials said the layoffs will be completed by June 30. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Constar´s Houston plant scheduled to shut (05-08-2008)
HOUSTON (May 8, 3:15 p.m. EDT) -- Bottle supplier Constar International Inc. will close its plant in Houston by the end of May, affecting 43 employees. Constar said it expects to save $2 million annually as a result. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Millennium to close if buyer can´t be found (05-08-2008)
EL PASO, TEXAS (May 8, 4:55 p.m. EDT) -- Automotive injection molder Millennium Plastics Technologies LLC of El Paso expects to close this summer, ending 185 jobs. The company will begin laying off workers June 30 at its 110,000-square-foot plant. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Q1 machinery statistics open to interpretation (05-06-2008)
NAPA, CALIF. (May 6, 1:20 p.m. EDT) -- Psychologists could have a field day with first-quarter 2008 U.S. plastics machinery statistics. How you might choose to interpret them would reveal a lot about whether you are a pessimist or an optimist. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- DuPont invests $150 million in ethylene copolymers (05-07-2008)
WILMINGTON, DEL. (May 7, 3:35 p.m. EDT) -- DuPont Co. is investing $150 million to grow its ethylene copolymer business in the U.S., Europe and Asia. In total, work at four sites is expected to increase DuPont’s total annual ethylene copolymer capacity by more than 200 million pounds. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Conn.’s Advance, Vision doubling capacity (05-08-2008)
MANCHESTER, CONN. (May 8, 2:55 p.m. EDT) -- Sister companies Advance Mold & Manufacturing Inc. and Vision Technical Molding LLC are used to sharing the same building. Now, they are embarking on a $4 million project to double their capacities by adding a 30,000-square-foot building, along with new machinery. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- BASF plans compounding plant in India (05-08-2008)
LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY (May 8, 8:25 a.m. EDT) — BASF AG plans to build a new engineering plastics compounding plant at its existing site in Thane, India, as part of a larger investment to expand its contribution to the automotive industry in the country. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
- Oak Engineered outsources its molding (05-08-2008)
OAKDALE, PA. (May 8, 9:05 a.m. EDT) -- Oak Engineered Products Inc. is no longer a manufacturer, but will continue to sell its product line. The firm now will rely on Penn North Plastics Inc. of Reno, Pa., to manufacture most of its lines. Oak sold most of its machinery at an April 3 auction, but kept its molds. hide summary | view story | e-mail this story
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