The Los Angeles City Council today voted to ban single-use plastic grocery bags. The city becomes the largest in the country to adopt an ordinance to phase out plastic grocery bags.
WASHINGTON – With the relaunch of its Web site and growing the ranks, the polyethylene film recycling working group within the American Chemistry Council expects to see growth in thin film recovery and recycling.
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.
Tech II Inc., which has pioneered in-mold labeling for thermoforming in North America, has bought a second TSL thermoforming machine. The company also is now extruding its own polypropylene sheet.
SHANGHAI — At the China International High Performance Film Manufacturing Technology Expo, protective film converters were talking about the current state of the smartphone market.
GUANGZHOU, CHINA — Three executives of the DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers business – which encompasses flexible packaging film applications and glass-laminated solutions – sat down for an interview with Plastics News at the ...
Focusing on clean polyethylene film is the best way to boost recycling rates of the post-consumer material, according to a study led by the Canadian Plastics Industry Association.
Materials maker RTP Co. has entered the sheet market by opening a production facility in its hometown of Winona, Minn.
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO — Tech II Inc., which has pioneered in-mold labeling for thermoforming in North America, is now extruding its own polypropylene sheet on a new coextrusion line from Welex Inc.
French medical products firm Actimed Group has bought a majority stake in plastic film and stock shape maker Westlake Plastics Co. for $6.5 million.
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