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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.
May 21, 2012
ATLANTA (May 21, 4:45 p.m. ET) -- Materials firm Georgia Gulf Corp. is producing new flexible PVC compounds using Javelin-brand bioplasticizers from Segetis Inc.
May 21, 2012
WASHINGTON (May 18, 2 p.m. ET) -- Deceuninck North America has introduced a new vinyl-framed interlinked double-sash window system that it believes exceeds anything on the market when it comes to thermal performance, energy efficiency, structural performance and sound performance.
May 18, 2012
FORT BRAGG, CALIF. (May 18, 1:50 p.m. ET) -- Fort Bragg, a city of 7,300 along the coast of California halfway between San Francisco and Redwoods National Park, has become the second city in Mendocino County to ban single-use plastic bags and charge 10 cents for paper bags.
May 18, 2012
PARIS (May 18, 1:30 p.m. ET) -- Environmental concerns and an overwhelming desire to be first with composite solutions were apparent at the JEC Europe 2012 show.
European Plastics News visited the Paris exhibition in March and reports on emerging trends in the sector.
May 18, 2012
SAN RAFAEL, CALIF. (May 16, 3:15 p.m. ET) -- Hey, Crayola: Some California elementary school students want you to listen to them.
May 16, 2012
WOONSOCKET, R.I. (May 15, 12:50 p.m. ET) -- Compounder Plastics Group of America will spend more than $1 million to restore a 105-year-old woolen mill complex in Woonsocket. The complex was built between 1907 and 1925 and operated for many years as the Jules Desurmont Worsted Mill.
May 15, 2012
GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. (May 15, 12:50 p.m. ET) -- Acrylic sheet maker Reynolds Polymer Technology Inc. has installed a solar panel array that’s saving the firm $1,000 per month in electricity costs.
May 15, 2012
DENVER (May 15, 12:30 p.m. ET) -- Alpine Waste & Recycling is now taking mixed rigid plastics for processing at its Denver recycling plant. Commerce City, Colo.-based Alpine Waste said it is the first company in the Denver area to actively seek mixed rigid plastics, such as lawn furniture, five-gallon buckets and pallets.
May 15, 2012
WASHINGTON (May 11, 2:20 p.m. ET) -- Four more communities, three of them in California, have banned single-use plastic carryout bags, bringing the number of communities with plastics-related bans in the United States to 74 -- almost two-thirds of them in California.
May 11, 2012
LOS ANGELES (May 11, 2 p.m. ET) -- A task force in Los Angeles County has shut down 24 illegal plastic grinding operations over eight months and received recognition for its efforts. But the five-person investigative team in the sheriff’s department said it needs more corporate or government financial support to maintain its momentum.
May 11, 2012
HEMSWELL, ENGLAND (May 11, 1:45 p.m. ET) -- Environment minister Lord Taylor officially opened the 15 million pound ($24.1 million) Continuum Recycling Ltd. plant in Hemswell on May 10, declaring the joint venture between Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd. and Eco Plastics as “an innovative partnership.”
May 11, 2012
LEVERKUSEN,
GERMANY (May 11, 1:45 p.m. ET) -- Bayer MaterialScience AG announced May 11 that it will set up a development center for wind energy at its site in
Otterup, Denmark. This center will spearhead and coordinate the global development activities for advanced materials used in wind-energy applications.
May 11, 2012
WASHINGTON (May 10, 5 p.m. ET) -- The American Chemistry Council has released a report that analyzes energy consumption, air and water pollution and solid waste from injection molded and thermoformed packaging. The report covers the North American production of injection molded and thermoformed packaging products such as lids, cups and containers like yogurt tubs and butter bins.
May 10, 2012
EUCLID, OHIO (May 10, 2:30 p.m. ET) -- Plastics scrap recycler InterGroup International Ltd. is riding a wave of growth that began late last year and is continuing on into 2012.
May 10, 2012
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