by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 14, 2018 | Additive Mfg, Additive Mfg, Business, Daily News, Global
Increasing industrialization efforts across various plastic printing technologies will result in $16 billion in industry revenues from the sale of printers and polymer-based print materials by 2027, according to a study published by SmarTech Publishing (Crozet, VA)....
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 14, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
China released a proposal to expand its scrap import ban beyond plastics and the other materials that are currently restricted. A new plan would ban every form of “solid waste” from import. The Ministry of Ecology and Environment on July 11 posted a draft document...
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 | Aug 13, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Mergers & Acquisitions, North America
A German company has bought 28 acres of the former DuPont plant site in Chattanooga where it plans to manufacture a product used in the plastics industry. Naprotec LLC, a subsidiary of Germany-based Nabaltec Group, also acquired 85,000 square feet in building space...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 13, 2018 | Business, Commodity Polymers, Daily News, Global, North America
LyondellBasell grew its second quarter earnings but reported lower profits from its plastics businesses as prices fell for certain base chemicals. The Houston-based petrochemicals company on Friday reported $1.7 billion in profits last quarter, up from about $1.1...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 13, 2018 | Business, Daily News, North America, Profile
Charles Sears, the president of dryer manufacturer Dri-Air Industries Inc., passed away on August 5 at age 78. An engineer with a BSME degree from Northeastern University in Boston and an MME degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Sears entered the plastics...
