Jeannie Reall

Correspondent

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Reall, a 1980 Ohio State University journalism graduate, was one of Plastics News' original reporters. She became a copy editor in 1990, was promoted to senior copy editor in 1996 and was named assistant managing editor in 1997. She joined Crain in January 1989 from the Vindicator daily newspaper in Youngstown, Ohio, where she had been a general assignment reporter. Prior to that, she served as United Press International's Akron, Ohio, bureau manager, and also had covered the West Virginia Statehouse for the State Journal weekly newspaper in Charleston.

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Recent Stories

Tennessee-based insulation maker adding equipment, jobs

Three years after launching, Dutch Tech Inc. is investing $755,000 over five years to expand its insulation manufacturing operations.

Thermal equipment supplier Big Chief sold to Gryphon Investors

Big Chief Inc., a fabricator and distributor of industrial thermal equipment for plastics processors, has a new private equity owner that intends to help it grow: Gryphon Investors.

Falcon Plastics upgrades its office space

Injection and blow molder Falcon Plastics Inc. has added office space to its plant in Brookings, S.D., and relocated its headquarters from across town into the new area.

Lockport, N.Y., keeps molder waiting for approval

A proposed SRI CV Plastics Inc. plant continues to generate controversy despite concessions the company offered at a Sept. 14 meeting of the Town of Lockport (N.Y.) Industrial Development Agency's directors.

Beyond Plastics still opposed to plans for new factory in Lockport, N.Y.

SRI CV Plastics Inc. is offering to abandon plans to make PVC pipe at a contentious Lockport, N.Y., site to build a plastics processing plant.

Axium Packaging investing C$80M to build in Brampton, Ontario

Axium Packaging Inc. is investing C$80 million (US$59.5 million) to build a plant in Brampton, Ontario, by next year.

ThermoFab fined $20K for environmental violations

ThermoFab Operating Co. LLC has been fined almost $20,000 as part of a settlement with the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

New processor MAKS Plastics planning to expand in Indiana

MAKS Plastics LLC, a rotational molder and thermoformer in Mishawaka, Ind., just launched in June and already is planning a $5 million equipment expansion.

Gemstar grows to make more Stronghold cases, add acetal fuel tanks

Gemstar Mfg. LLC, known for its rotomolded protective cases and custom parts, finished an expansion this year to pursue one of its newer endeavors: single-layer fuel tanks made with acetal.

DuPont sells majority of Delrin acetal business to private equity

Private equity firm TJC LP of New York has agreed to buy 80 percent of DuPont Co.'s Delrin acetal homopolymer (H-POM) business.

Bradley Corp. closing Marion, Ohio, plant, cutting 65 jobs

Bradley Corp. is closing its Marion, Ohio, plant and relocating the work to its corporate headquarters in Menomonee Falls, Wis.

NASA grant helps UMass student study polymer insulators, heat

Mechanical engineering major Brendan Scott isn't taking the summer off with other University of Massachusetts Amherst students this year.

Mattr Infrastructure Technologies expands and modernizes tubing business

Turkish firm buys US sheet extruder US Plast

UG Plast sells its products under the US Plast brand. It manufactures multiwall polypropylene sheet, and multiwall and solid polycarbonate sheet for end markets including automotive, medical, electrical, construction, packaging and others.

Cutting Edge Machining & Automation buys Comco

Cutting Edge Machining & Automation has acquired Comco Plastics Inc., a Huntington Station, N.Y., contract fabricator of tight-tolerance components including medical devices, semiconductors and analytical equipment.