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From the cover Enrollment at many college and university plastics programs around the country is failing dramatically, and educators are blaming a one-two punch of COVID-19 and society's growing distrust of plastics.
Also The Polymers Center in Charlotte, N.C., is helping companies outside the United States offer their equipment to the U.S. market at a new 12,000-square-foot nesting ground that landing its first tenant in a subsidiary of Schoenberg, Germany-based sesotec GmbH.
And Work is well underway at a former Walmart store in rural Arkansas where the new owners of America's oldest, and arguably most famous — duck decoy company are transforming the site to restart production.