by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 14, 2018 | Blow Molding, Business, Consumer, Daily News, North America
The chances are good that someone very close to you left the state … a brother or sister, a son or daughter. Over the past 40 years, Western New York has lost 214,000 people. The City of Niagara Falls alone saw its population drop from just over 100,000 down to 48,000...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 8, 2018 | Blow Molding, Commodity Polymers, Daily News, Engineering Plastics, Environmental, North America
DuPont and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) on Monday announced the opening of the world’s first biobased “furan dicarboxylic methyl ester (FDME)” pilot production plant in Decatur, Illinois. FDME is a molecule derived from fructose rather than fossil fuels that’s...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 23, 2018 | Blow Molding, Daily News, Global, Packaging
The company –a subsidiary of an Italian based Petro-chemical plant– was supposed to produce more than one million tons of plastic used to make soda bottles but was closed after multiple companies took out liens against the plant leaving them unpaid. The...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 21, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Blow Molding, Daily News, Injection Molding, Packaging
Imphal, (Manipur): Keeping in mind Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Start Up India’ mission, an entrepreneur from Manipur made it big in the business of plastic. Manipur’s very own industrialist Kshetrimayum Ibochou Singh has also made a name for himself among the...
by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 27, 2018 | Blow Molding, Daily News, Film Extrusion, North America, Packaging
Robots were hot in 2017 and they’ll be hotter still in 2018. It was impossible to turn around without seeing a story about them. Often it was about how robots and artificial intelligence were going to put everyone out of work and that the world would end. Some of the...
by plastics editor | Jan 23, 2018 | Blow Molding, Business, Daily News, Extrusion
Extrusion blow molding machinery maker Kautex Maschinenbau Group has a new majority owner. Vienna-based investment firm Plastech Beteiligungs GmbH has purchased a 74.9 per cent stake in Kautex, which is headquartered in Bonn, Germany. Plastech takes over from the...
