PolyOne Corp. donated hundreds of hours of design time and materials for the eyeglass project, PET bottle resin declines and Coca-Cola Co. loans money to PET recycler.
Updated: Bill Carteaux, the longtime head of the Plastics Industry Association, died Dec. 10 after a nearly three-year fight with acute myeloid leukemia.
Industry executives say the legacy of Bill Carteaux will be one of essentially saving the Plastics Industry Association in difficult times and building a foundation for future growth.
Bill Carteaux has been “Mr. Plastics” for the current generation. He was a mentor for many, and a leader who helped save the Plastics Industry Association and NPE. Bill won't be forgotten for a long time.
Working at Inline Plastics Corp. isn't a brand-new experience for Alicia Orkisz. She remembers working at the Shelton, Conn., thermoformer when she was in high school.
MTD Micro Molding customers turn to the Charlton, Mass.-based company to breathe commercial life into ideas for complicated medical products or resuscitate projects too challenging for other manufacturers.
A United Nations gathering in Geneva looked at whether new legally binding treaties are needed to manage plastic waste. Some advocated plastic taxes to fund waste management.
Seventeen is an important age in songwriting, so it seems, but the music industry isn't alone. Seventeen is also a highly cherished number in the car business. And for automakers and plastics machinery execs, reliving 17 again and again and again and again is a good thing.
Coca-Cola Co. has extended a loan to the Dutch company Ioniqa Technologies BV to accelerate the scale-up of Ioniqa's PET recycling process.
French software company Dassault Systèmes SE is buying manufacturing software provider IQMS Inc. for $425 million in cash.
Hourly workers at the Flex-N-Gate Corp. plant in Shelby Township, Mich., voted Dec. 12 to join the United Auto Workers union.
Tooling Technology LLC is relocating its headquarters from Ohio to Macomb Township, Mich., in a $19.9 million move it says will create 100 new jobs over five years.
Logoplaste SA already is working on renovations at an existing facility in an industrial park in Yorkville, Wis., to move manufacturing from Plainfield, Ill., and get closer to a major customer.
Graham Packaging Co. LP told the Kentucky Division of Workforce and Employment Services that one of its Florence, Ky., plants will close in January, due to the loss of a key contract.
BASF SE is advancing its plastics recycling ambitions with a new ChemCycling project, which involves using mixed plastic waste to produce virgin polymers.
Bill Carteaux, Plastics Industry Association president and CEO, died Dec. 10 after a battle with leukemia. Also this week, Unilever looks to reduce plastic waste and Plastic Man might be coming to the big screen.
North American prices for PET bottle resin fell 6 cents in November, reflecting an expected seasonal decline.
The number 180 is a significant one for KraussMaffei Group. The Munich-based company is delivering its 180th injection molding machine to German molder Wirthwein AG, to celebrate 180 years of KraussMaffei.
An environmentally focused business in Costa Rica has begun making construction blocks from a combination of recycled plastic and limestone.
JD Composites Inc., a Canadian startup company, is constructing a concept house using PET foam made from more than 500,000 recycled plastic bottles.
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