AutoPets thinks outside the litter box with rebrand, rapid growth

Injection molder Automated Pet Care Products Inc. has sold more than 600,000 self-cleaning cat litter boxes since it started 20 years ago, but the Michigan-based manufacturer is ready to be known for more than just its Litter-Robot.

Expanding the image of what women do, how they ‘break molds'

Wittmann Battenfeld shows Easy Cells to automate cramped factories

GM ups EV spending, expects to spend $35B by 2025

Tackling a new litter problem: Single-use face masks

Kickstart: Starting up soon in Texas

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Spectrum buys film maker KCS

Fire causes ‘significant impact' to specialty PVC production for Formosa

Chemours names Mark Newman as CEO

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Semperit eyes Georgia for U.S. plant, North American headquarters

Plastics pact presents a road map to a circular future for packaging

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Unilever joins recycled PP project for food packaging

Flambeau tackles increased demand with new equipment, ERP system

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SK Capital, Heubach pick up Clariant Pigments in $895M deal

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Injection Molding

Wittmann Battenfeld shows Easy Cells to automate cramped factories

Automotive

GM ups EV spending, expects to spend $35B by 2025

Blow Molding

Nissei ASB settles lawsuit with R&D Tool & Engineering

ST BlowMoulding fine-tunes dual-head technology

PlastiBlow focuses on processing recycled content

Petoskey Plastics expands to Texas with $30M plant

Film & Sheet

Spectrum buys film maker KCS

Soteria Flexibles makes second acquisition with film extruder Redi-Bag

Colorado adopts statewide plastics ban, hands cities reins to do more

Blogs

Kickstart: Starting up soon in Texas

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Mergers and Acquisitions

SK Capital, Heubach pick up Clariant Pigments in $895M deal

Materials

Fire causes ‘significant impact' to specialty PVC production for Formosa

Chemours names Mark Newman as CEO

SK Capital, Heubach pick up Clariant Pigments in $895M deal

Packaging

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Unilever joins recycled PP project for food packaging

Jabil to make hybrid, recyclable bottle for Vittel brand

Colgate launches toothpaste tube with LiquiGlide technology

Recycling

Tackling a new litter problem: Single-use face masks

Plastics pact presents a road map to a circular future for packaging

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Medical

Zeus Industrial Products to acquire CathX Medical

Medline buyout may set off private equity investment wave

Medline to be sold to private equity group for $30B

Medical molders expect higher surgical device demand, supply chain reevaluations following pandemic shifts

Machinery

KraussMaffei highlights a diversity of plastics recycling solutions

KraussMaffei boosts clamping force of GX press series for packaging, logistics

Hillenbrand turns to plastics machinery veteran Ryan as CEO plans retirement

Business picks up for Italian plastics machinery makers