by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 7, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Engineering Plastics, Europe
Leading European PET resin producer NEO Group has responded to growing regional PET demand with the inauguration of a new 160,000 tpa line at its Baltic plant at Klaipėda in Lithuania. With the line’s launch in June, overall output at NEO’s port city site which...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 3, 2018 | Automotive, Business, Composites, Daily News, Engineering Plastics, Europe, North America, Thermoset
AUBURN HILLS, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Continental Structural Plastics (CSP), a Teijin Group Company, today announced it will be installing a sheet molding compound (SMC) line at its facility in Pouancé, France, to support the need for its industry-leading...
by Plastics.com Staff | Aug 2, 2018 | Daily News, Engineering Plastics, Europe, Injection Molding
NIEDERZISSEN, Germany — Akro-Plastic GmbH is touting a special grade of nylon 6 that could be a replacement for nylon 6/6, a widely used engineering thermoplastic. The Niederzissen-based company said in a news release that it developed Akromid B+, a modified nylon 6...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jul 17, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Engineering Plastics, North America
The struggling PET resin production markets in Europe and the Americas are likely to take another hit after a devastating fire at Alpek’s Altamira Mexico purified terephthalic (PTA) facility last weekend caused significant damage. Although the extent of the damage...
by Plastics.com Staff | Jul 13, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Engineering Plastics, Global, Mergers & Acquisitions, North America
In 2011, an Italian plastics giant surprised the market with plans to build the one of the world’s largest PET plastics plants in Corpus Christi, an enormous undertaking that would shift global trade patterns and vastly expand the U.S. capacity to produce the...
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...
