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 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....
by Plastics.com Staff | Jul 3, 2018 | Daily News, Extrusion, North America, Profile
Robert Ackley, a longtime employee of Davis-Standard in Pawcatuck, was recently named to the Plastics Hall of Fame for his work at the company. Ackley, who retired in 2005 after 46 years, was honored at the National Plastics Exposition in Orlando on May 6. Ackley was...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 12, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Film Extrusion, Mergers & Acquisitions, North America, Packaging
There are certainties in life: birth, death and Sigma Plastics Group continuing to grow. The Lyndhurst, N.J.-based company is at it again, this time acquiring Poly Pak America Inc. of Los Angeles. Poly Pak extrudes, prints and converts heavy-duty outdoor bags as well...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 11, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Extrusion, Mergers & Acquisitions, North America
ALPHARETTA, Ga.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–May 24, 2018–Spectrum Plastics Group, the market leading medical extruder with complementary injection molding, silicone, and assembly capabilities, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Fermatex Vascular...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 17, 2018 | Business, Commodity Polymers, Daily News, Environmental, Film Extrusion, Global, North America
Quebec Government LCA proves the conventional plastic shopping bag is NOT single-use MONTREAL, May 9, 2018 /CNW/ – The first-ever Canadian scientific study of plastic shopping bags provides definitive proof that the conventional thin plastic shopping bag (17...
