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...
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 | May 8, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Engineering Plastics, North America, Part Design
Kingsport, Tenn., USA — May 1, 2018 — Launching a new toy company into the highly competitive global toy market presented Kando Concepts Ltd with a challenge — and an opportunity to take a fresh approach to toy manufacturing. Focusing on original, high quality designs...
by Plastics.com Staff | May 1, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Engineering Plastics, North America
KINGSPORT, Tenn., April 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Global specialty plastics provider Eastman announces three groundbreaking product developments marking the milestone 10th anniversary of Eastman Tritan™ copolyester, a clear, tough, chemical-resistant polymer found...
by Plastics.com Staff | Apr 10, 2018 | Daily News, Engineering Plastics, Environmental, Europe, Global, Recycling
The Netherlands: While polyethylene terephthalate is popular around the world as a plastics packaging material, only about 15% makes its way to recycling plants, so estimates Unilever. To help reduce landfilling and incineration of high-quality plastics, the...
