Stephen Downer

A flexible packaging company in central Mexico has become the first to purchase the Reifenhäuser Group's environment-friendly Evo Fusion extrusion technology in the Americas.

Orbia Advance Corp. SAB de CV's Polymer Solutions' business group AlphaGary is boosting annual production capacity at its manufacturing facility in Altamira, Mexico, by 22 percent.

Polymers supplier Geon Performance Solutions LLC of Westlake, Ohio, has launched a new thermoplastic elastomer manufacturing line at its facility in Ramos Arizpe in northern Mexico.

Coca-Cola bottler Fomento Económico Mexicano SAB de CV has agreed to sell its plastics processing operations to AMMI, a U.S. food and beverage conglomerate, for $157.8 million.

Icelandic rotational molder Rotovia hf has acquired Mexican rotomolder Ollin Plastics. It describes the transaction as a "significant milestone" in its strategic growth plan.

An executive at Industrias Ferroplásticas survived an assassination attempt Sept. 6 when his armored SUV was ambushed on the outskirts of Querétaro.

In an Aug. 22 statement, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said proposed reforms to the Mexican judicial system threatened "the historic commercial relationship" between Mexico and the United States.

Alcamare International Recycling Group S de RL de CV says it has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce food-grade recycled polypropylene.

The government of the state of Tamaulipas on the Gulf of Mexico has officially declared an end to the severe drought that played havoc with industrial operations, including plastics, for more than a month.

Cabot Corp., which makes carbon black additives at its facility in Altamira, Mexico, said it expects to resume full operations at the plant within a few days as a severe drought in northeastern Mexico continues to ease.

National water commission Conagua reported on June 23 that only one of seven dams in the state region is operating at above 50 percent of its capacity.

In public, members of Mexico's plastics industry are contemplating the economic consequences of another six years of populism imperturbably.

Geon Performance Solutions LLC plans to invest $1.3 million to expand compounding capacity of its plant in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico.

Prominent Mexican food packaging thermoformer Goplás SA de CV has ordered two additional machines from West Palm Beach, Fla.'s OMV Technologies USA LLC as it eyes increased business in the United States.

Orbia Advance Corp. is pausing plans for a 1.1 million-tonne-per-year PVC resin project on the U.S. Gulf Coast "until prices stabilize above $1,000 per metric ton."