Plastics News Now
Brightmark Energy is teaming up with a workforce training program for former inmates, Barbie gets more inclusive and Dow Chemical is turning hard-to-recycle plastics into schools.
House Democrats announce USMCA agreement with Trump administration, raccoons helping Michiganders recycle and tequila-maker Jose Cuervo using agave material to make bio-based drinking straws.
Houston Community College hosted plastics industry executives during an October manufacturing conference on how technology is changing the industry, a polycarbonate peek at Corvette's jewel and Sotheby's has the toys and props you're looking for.
A new project is collecting trash from fishing boats catching marine debris, Scotland’s MacRebur Plastic Road Company paves a way to plastic roads in the U.S. and LOL Surprise’s tiny toys now have a more sustainable solution for their packaging.
A new edible and biodegradable material, made of fishing waste and algae, was designed by the 2019 James Dyson Award winner for design, Hillenbrand completes nearly $2 billion Milacron acquisition and get your plastic toy fix on a new season of Netflix’s “The Toys That Made Us.”
A Bubble Barrier installed in Amsterdam’s Westerdok will collect plastics throughout the water, Hyatt joins other global hotels to phase out single-use plastic toiletry bottles and WeatherTech will air a 30-second ad during SuperBowl 54.
Adidas is sending Boost plastic pellets into space, GM’s CarbonPro composite truck bed wins SPE award and Lego incorporates iconic plastic bricks into new campus design.
Attendance down but international visitors rose at K 2019, plastics popped from U.K. Christmas crackers and plastic molds for "pumpkinsteins."
KraussMaffei launched Polymore, an online material marketplace, Italian artist Lady Be turned discarded plastic objects into art and Miss K 2019 was crowned.
Audrey LaForest reports from Düsseldorf, Germany for K 2019. Economic and environmental concerns for plastics are having an impact on machinery, Arburg is demonstrating using recycled materials at its K exhibit and Covestro unveiled an automotive interior concept.