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.
Boston-based Lux Research has ranked the 19 technologies that will reshape the world in 2019.
Investment firm Spell Capital Partners LLC is taking a stake in Polar Plastics Inc. of Oakdale, Minn.
Northbrook, Ill.-based M. Holland will distribute polyethylene and polypropylene resins, as well as polyolefin plastomers and elastomers and filled PP compounds for Vienna-based Borealis.
Covestro AG took more than 100 people on a road trip to the future on Dec. 3, with discussions on self-driving vehicles and ride-sharing services among the major topics at the event.
German auxiliary equipment supplier Werner Koch Maschinentechnik GmbH has acquired a 51 percent stake in its representative in Mexico as part of a strategy to open new markets in North, Central and South America.
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