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Chinese toy maker Sunshine invests $6 million in expansion


June 14, 2013 3:57 pm ET

Plastic processor Sunshine Inflatable Toys Co. Ltd. is like a lot of smaller Chinese manufacturers these days, staring at sharply rising labor costs and weaker export markets.

Pennsylvania molder C&J adds new equipment


June 11, 2013 12:36 pm ET

Pennsylvania-based custom injection molder C&J Industries continues to expand, this time adding $1.4 million in new machinery.

Filtrona renames itself Essentra


June 10, 2013 11:45 am ET

Filtrona plc, the Milton Keynes, England-based manufacturer and supplier of specialty plastics and foam, has renamed itself Essentra plc.

Cosmetics firms nixing exfoliation microbeads


June 7, 2013 3:43 pm ET

WASHINGTON — Gently exfoliating PE microbeads will soon be disappearing from cosmetics — and the watershed.

Motorola and Flextronics bringing smartphone manufacturing to Texas


May 30, 2013 4:43 pm ET

Google Inc.’s Motorola Mobility group and Flextronics International Ltd. are bringing the first smartphone manufacturing to the United States, building the new Moto X at a Texas plant that was once home to cell phone manufacturing for Nokia.

Management group buys Balda's injection operation in Malaysia


May 7, 2013 12:05 pm ET

IPOH, MALAYSIA — The Malaysian management of Balda AG's injection molding plant in Ipoh, Malaysia, have purchased the plant's production and services, effective March 31.

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Refillable bottle comes with app to find water fountains


April 19, 2013 1:30 pm ET

CHICAGO — A newly designed bottle is only part of Merijn Everaarts business plan to get consumers to ditch disposable water bottles. The rest relies on a smartphone app that leads consumers to public water spots.

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Yonwoo riding Asian 'cosmetics wave'


April 16, 2013 1:10 pm ET

INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA — South Korean cosmetics packaging maker Yonwoo Co. Ltd. has grown from $20 million in sales in 2002 to $150 million last year, and the company gives a lot of credit to one key strategy — a financial commitment to...

Lock & Lock building another Vietnam plant


April 16, 2013 1:03 pm ET

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Large South Korean plastic container maker Lock & Lock Inc. is investing $30 million in an injection molding factory in Vietnam — its fifth worldwide — as the company increasingly targets inland China and Southeast Asia for growth.

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