Catherine Kavanaugh

A three-year consent decree resolves the case, requiring Pretium to pay more than $125,000 to two female machine operators as well as $2,500 each to an additional group of former female employees.

A metal trash interceptor that collapsed in a flash flood in Guatemala has been replaced with a plastic boom system with parts made in Ohio.

Layoffs begin in August at the facility that employs 274 people.

Maag's Martin Baumann to succeed Friedrich Kanz, who is retiring after 23 years with the German machine builder.

The facility under construction in Lubbock, Texas, will serve the natural gas distribution, power, communications markets in North America.

VasanthaTech USA gives the company a foothold in North America as it eyes a long-term goal to build molds in the U.S.

The expansion will help parent company Azek boost recycled content of decking and other building materials.

The deal was announced on the heels of Uponor Oyj rejecting a sweetened purchase offer worth $2.06 billion.

The value of shipments increased by 1.6 percent but that's likely due to higher prices more than higher demand.

The deal brings Milacron owner Hillenbrand Inc. more processing technologies for food and plastics as well as cross-selling opportunities.

Recipients of the funds are developing ways to take back PVC roofing, siding, billboards and medical products.

The American Mold Builders Association revises the procurement process protocols and terminology guidelines that had been in place since 1996.

Belgium's Aliaxis SA — the owner of pipe maker Ipex — is now offering 25.75 euros per share for Uponor Oyj, up from 25 euros offered in April, but Uponor still says there's no deal.

AMBA trade group lobbyist Omar Nashahib: "What we heard from you all is that the molds, dies and tooling is already underpriced by China probably 40-60 percent. So 25 percent doesn't even get you whole, but it does help."

Yushin sells similar take-out robot products in Asia and North America and will operate Wemo as a subsidiary.