Asahi Kasei Corp. Honorary Fellow Akira Yoshino has been chosen for the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of his achievements in the research and development of the lithium-ion battery. He will share the prize, worth around 1.16 million euros ($1.27 million), equally with John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas at Austin and M. Stanley Whittingham of Binghamton University.

Italy-based bioplastics maker Bio-on says its sales took a nosedive in the first half of 2019, reaching only 917,000 euros ($1 million), compared to 6.1 million euros ($6.7 million) a year earlier.

Amid the general euphoria about the opportunities presented by additive manufacturing, there are those who take a more level-headed view of the disruptiveness of the technology.

Advances in additive manufacturing technology have not always led to bigger and bigger builds, as Tel Aviv-based Nanofabrica demonstrates.

Bioplastics company Total Corbion PLA has officially inaugurated its 75-kilotonne-per-annum (ktpa) polylactic acid (PLA) production plant in Rayong, Thailand.
 

Illinois-based Hilco Industrial Acquisitions has purchased the assets of a bankrupt Dutch film processor and is seeking to sell them either as a "turnkey" package or through individual sales.

The former Milacron blow molding unit, purchased by private equity groups in July, will underscore its return to Europe by taking part in K 2019 in Düsseldorf, Germany in October, the company announced Aug. 9.

There are two factors propelling the use of thermoplastic composites in automotive applications, says Norbert Müller, head of Engel’s Centre for Lightweight Composite Technologies.

After a great 2018, materials supplier Radici Group is seeing a drop in sales as tariff battles and an automotive slump spell uncertainty. 

The fifth generation for mobile broadband is moving forward and polycarbonates will be likely be used in the making of new devices. 

Global chemical company Huntsman Corp. will put a focus on additive manufacturing and the needs of a growing, but still young, branch of the plastics industry during K 2019 this year in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Construction has started on a new production hall at extrusion machinery maker Reifenhäuser Group's headquarters in Troisdorf, Germany.

Netststal-Maschinen AG, the injection press business in Nafels, Switzerland, will be called KraussMaffei High Performance AG, although the Netstal name will still appear on the machinery.

While plastic has been described as the "success story of the 20th century," this is often lost sight of in the course of the plastics-bashing discussions taking place today.

When styrenics giant Ineos Styrolution needed a packaging solution at its Luran S1 facility in Germany, producing about 35,000 metric tons of packaged goods per year, a European supplier of flexible films ended up turning to a styrene-based solution.