Stephen Downer

Partners in the Enval Ltd. plant aim to process 6,000 metric tons of flexible packaging in the plant's first year of operations.

Mexican specialty chemicals maker Orbia Advance Corp. SAB de CV has acquired the fumaric acid business of Neotrimental SA de CV, a subsidiary of Grupo IMSA SA of Colombia.

Swedish compounder Polykemi AB opened a sales subsidiary in Mexico March 1, describing the move as a "natural step in the globalization of the company."

Giant Mexican processor Grupo Ortiz is investing $50 million in new stretch film technology.

Mexican auto supplier Certus Automotive's manufacturing assets are to be auctioned June 6 via a webcast.

Global automotive parts supplier Novares Group has consolidated tube assembly manufacturing in a new $1.75 million plant in Santa Ana, Mexico.

British multinational chemicals company Ineos Group Ltd. has made a formal £4.25 billion ($5.54 billion) bid for world soccer club champion Chelsea FC.

German extrusion blow molding equipment maker Kautex Maschinenbau GmbH is stepping up its activities in Latin America but says trade restrictions in the region have been a hindrance.

Plastimagen México 2022 is "the starting point towards the economic reactivation of our industry," one leader says.

Ascend Performance Materials LLC is expanding its production operations into Latin America for the first time, it said Dec. 8.

Mexico-based Rotoplas sold all its manufacturing assets in the U.S. to Tank Holding Corp. in July 2019 to concentrate, it said, on its e-commerce platform north of the border.

Mexican legislators have unanimously endorsed a proposed law that will require numerous plastic products to contain 20 percent recycled materials by 2025, and 30 percent by 2030.

Austrian packaging giant and recycler Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG opened a 20 million euro ($22.9 million) high density polyethylene recycling plant in central Mexico Nov. 10 and promptly announced it will double the facility's capacity to 66.2 million pounds a year by the second half of 2022.

Thermoformed plastics packaging specialist Direct Pack Inc. (DPI) has started operations at a $25 million manufacturing plant in Baja California, Mexico, its fourth such facility in North America and its second in Mexico.

To be built over three years, the terminal will be able to supply Braskem Idesa's $5.2 billion Ethylene XXI petrochemicals complex in nearby Nanchital with the 66,000 barrels a day of ethane needed to run the complex at full capacity, the company said.