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The 100,000-square-foot facility will create 60 jobs and house production of a new product line of heavy-duty underground utility enclosures.
The veteran- and family-owned company expects to create 26 new jobs meeting the HDPE pipe demand from telecommunications, utility, oil and gas markets.
Polypropylene, long popular in Europe as a substitute to PVC, is gaining popularity with customers in Mexico needing stronger, lighter-weight products, according to Stefan Lupke, executive vice president of Corma Inc., a manufacturer of corrugators based in Concord, Ontario.
The same Jabil Circuit Inc. facility in Wuxi, China that faced labor violation accusations last September just before the iPhone 5S and 5C release is facing similar charges this September, after the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus release.
Bigger than its predecessors, the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus will pack more pixels and power into a thinner design that has a glass face curving around the sides to meet an aluminum enclosure. Not a lot of plastic compared to last year's unveiling of the one-piece polycarbonate outer body of the iPhone 5C.
Bright Plastics Inc. is taking steps to add 48,000 square feet of production capacity by the end of the third quarter of this year, according to President Kirk Sparks.
Last July, when Motorola Mobility launched its newest phone, the Moto X, it went full-on patriotic. Then Google-owned, the company ran a sweeping print campaign on the July 4th weekend, emblazoned with the copy for the "first smartphone designed, engineered and assembled in the USA."
ResTech Plastic Molding Inc. is adding two-shot molding capability to its portfolio with the acquisition of Northeast Mold && Plastics Inc. of Glastonbury, Conn.
In a bid to enhance its service to customers in Eastern Europe, the German plastic component molder Inotech Kunstofftechnik GmbH is constructing a new plant at Kostinbrod, Bulgaria.
Motorola Mobility is not making its newest smart phone, the Moto G, in the United States, but it is keeping some of the plastics design flexibility it introduced with the Texas-made Moto X earlier this year.
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