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 | Jun 11, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Environmental, Global, Scrap Plastics
I haven’t seen Blue Planet II. I may be the only person in the country who hasn’t. But I’ve heard about it. Of course I have. Because now we are at war with plastic. We will fight plastic on our streets, we will fight plastic in our supermarkets and we will fight...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 11, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Environmental, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
Major Vietnam shipping terminals will temporarily stop accepting imports of scrap plastic, citing an overload of the material that has caused backups and delays. The move is a significant development for the global recycled plastics industry, because Vietnam has...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 8, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Medical, North America
MILTON, GA, May 24, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Attis Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATIS) (the “Company” or “Attis”), a diversified innovation and technology holding company, today announced its participation in the innovative Plastics Industry...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jun 8, 2018 | Business, Daily News, North America
Let’s highlight some emerging plastics technologies at NPE and ANTEC, starting with what’s leading the 3-D printing plastics revolution. In the traditional 3-D printing area of FFF, or fused filament fabrication, novel open-source software has come to the forefront. A...
