by Plastics.com Staff | Jul 17, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Extrusion, Injection Molding, Mergers & Acquisitions, North America
Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc. has agreed to acquire two components from Lauren International — Lauren Manufacturing and Lauren Plastics. This acquisition will aid the Novi, MI-based supplier of systems and components for the automotive industry to expand in markets...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jul 13, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Injection Molding, Mergers & Acquisitions, North America, Tool & Die
BROKEN ARROW, Okla.—Custom injection molder RL Hudson & Co. L.L.C. has acquired Rapid Production Tooling Inc., an injection mold tooling company based in Berthoud, Colo. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Rick Von Drehle, RL Hudson & Co....
by Plastics.com Staff | Jul 6, 2018 | Daily News, Engineering Plastics, Global, Injection Molding
Because of the growth of the plastics industry, there has been an uptick in number of new hires for processing plastics over the last few years. With new employees comes the challenge of training—not only on company policies and processing duties, but on safety. With...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jul 5, 2018 | Daily News, Environmental, North America, Polymer Science, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
Quebec startup Loop Industries has unveiled a more efficient technology for depolymerizing scrap PET. Loop uses a heatless, pressureless process to depolymerize PET, plastic with problematic inks, labels and other contaminants. The process generates monomers can be...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jul 5, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
UK: Pioneering UK company uses ‘clean hydrogen energy from waste plastic’ technology to provide electricity. PowerHouse Energy Group plc (“PHE”), a UK technology company pioneering clean energy production from waste plastic and end-of-life tyres, together with the...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jul 4, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Europe, Film Extrusion
Plastics is the unlikely celebration of plastic bags and, more generally, plastic objects that have caught photographer Michael James Fox’s eye over the years. Michael spent his childhood reading skate magazines and watching videos of peers with similar interests....
