by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Injection Molding
HAIYAN, China — German machinery manufacturer KraussMaffei Group has started construction of a new production plant at its existing location in Haiyan. The new intelligent manufacturing unit will cover an area of 1.3 million square feet and is expected to double the...
by Plastics.com Staff | Mar 19, 2019 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Profile
Nasdaq.com — Celanese Corporation CE is set to hike selling prices for Ateva EVA Polymers in Asia by $80 per MT. The company stated that the price hike is effective immediately for orders shipped to Asia or as contracts permit. Celanese is undertaking price-increase...
by Plastics.com Staff | Feb 20, 2019 | Asia/Pacifica, Consumer, Daily News, Recycling
Insidewaste.com — Chinaplas 2019, with its aim to promote the plastics and rubber industries’ development by focusing on technology and creativity, offers an international platform for the release and exchange of information relate to advanced new technologies. The...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 12, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
Thailand — A Thai policy restricting the import of scrap plastics has proved effective. U.S. scrap plastic exports to the country dropped by 94 percent after the ban took hold. U.S. exporters sent 1.5 million pounds of recovered plastic to Thailand in July, the most...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 11, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, North America
NEW YORK (ICIS) — As the third round of US-China tariffs looms, China finished plastics products will be in the crosshairs, along with additional US exports of commodity chemicals. The proposed third round of tariffs, which the US plans to put on an additional $200bn...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Extrusion, North America
A Chinese company will open a plastics recycling facility in Georgia, the latest instance in a growing trend of Chinese investment in North American processing infrastructure. Yunnan Xintongji Plastic Engineering plans to open a plant in Montezuma, Ga., where the...
