Flooring maker Mannington Mills Inc. is investing $22 million in an expansion in Georgia to produce luxury vinyl tile. The project will create 268 jobs.

California's Bye Bye Mattress program recently reported it has now recycled more than 5 million mattresses since 2016. That's enough to span nearly 6,000 miles, or the length of a bridge from California to Hawaii and back, according to the Mattress Recycling Council. It also adds up to 26.3 million pounds of polyurethane foam.

A New York company thinks that parents are ready to leave disposable diapers behind, Steve Toloken is in Tennessee this week, covering the Plastics Recycling Conference and Trade Show and a lurking alligator.

My mother is still teaching me lessons. This time about packaging. 

How has China built new hospitals so quickly? With some prefabricated polyurethane sandwich panels, produced by Chinese supplier Jingzheng.

The National Association of Manufacturers and the Manufacturing Institute have unveiled a $14 million "Creators Wanted" project that aims to attract a new generation of industrial workers.

This Kickstart also mentions bears. 

United Kingdom-based Garçon Wines has developed a new kind of wine bottle: rectangular, made of recycled PET, 87 percent lighter than traditional glass bottles and still able to hold the same amount of wine.

Houston-based Texas Injection Molding is moving into a new, larger facility that will provide it with room for growth in a variety of industrial sectors

Consumer electronics giant HP Inc. has been using bottles collected from the island nation of Haiti and using them in cases for its ink cartridges, along with other items, as part of its drive to use 30 percent recycled plastics in all of its computers and electronics

The University of Toronto Scarborough is turning used McDonald's cooking oil into a high-resolution, biodegradable resin for 3D printing.

British television icon Doctor Who has found something other than Daleks and Cybermen to terrify us: microplastics.