Consumer Products
The world's largest toilet seat maker introduces bidet attachments, contour-padded seats and products aimed at dignified living.
Injection molder Home Products International Inc. plans to close its metal ironing board operations in Seymour, Ind., to focus on its plastics business.
John Kahl, CEO of the Avon-based Consumer & Craftsman Group of Shurtape Technologies LLC, the company best known for Duck brand duct tape and FrogTape brand painter's tape, will end his career there at the end of the year.
Let's cut up some potatoes in the Veg-O-Matic, take our Pocket Fisherman out to the lake and tell passersby via our Mr. Microphone that we'll be back to pick them up later to mark the life of Ron Popeil, who did more to promote plastic gadgets to late-night TV viewers than we can imagine.
Injection molder Automated Pet Care Products Inc. has sold more than 600,000 self-cleaning cat litter boxes since it started 20 years ago, but the Michigan-based manufacturer is ready to be known for more than just its Litter-Robot.
Continuing recent growth, Poly-Wood LLC plans to invest $43 million in a new Indiana facility to make its signature Adirondack chairs and other plastic furniture from recycled materials.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation said consumer product companies should dramatically quicken their work around plastic packaging sustainability to meet goals they've set for themselves.
Colgate-Palmolive Co. has developed a recyclable toothpaste tube and is willing to share the new packaging development with competitors.
Reynolds Consumer Products Inc., the owner of Hefty, Presto and Slide-Rite brands in the plastic business, is looking at a reported $7 billion valuation in a potential initial public offering.