Recently added articles from Plastics News:
Conair drops lawsuit against rival Novatec.(News)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Bill Bregar The Conair vs. Novatec dryer lawsuit has ended with a mere change to product literature wording but the war of words goes on. Conair Group Inc. of Cranberry Township, Pa., dropped its patent infringement lawsuit against Baltimore-based Novatec ...
PET recycler plans for growth.(News)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Mike Verespej Strong demand for food-grade recycled PET is triggering another expansion, this time by Custom Polymers PET LLC. The firm's $10 million food-grade recycled PET pellet plant in Athens, Ala. with an annual capacity of 25 million pounds opened in ...
HTP-Meds is thriving on medical tubing.(News)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Bill Bregar Enjoying rapid growth, medical tubing extruder HTP-Meds LLC has moved into a new 169,000-square-foot factory in Ashaway, R.I., just across the border from Connecticut. "We're working with all the major medical device manufacturers, President Ray ...
Feedback comes fast for IQMS.(News)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Rhoda Miel Software developers at IQMS Inc. are always looking for ways to tweak their work, sending updates to customers of its enterprise resource planning systems and creating new ways to track the wealth of details available from the factory floor. Now ...
Milacron poised for stalking horse sale.(News)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Bill Bregar Milacron Inc. is asking U.S. Bankruptcy Judge J. Vincent Aug Jr. to approve its sale to two investor groups that bought the plastics machinery maker's debt at a court hearing scheduled for June 26. If the judge agreed at a court hearing that was ...
NatureWorks ramping up 2nd PLA line.(News)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Mike Verespej NatureWorks LLC's long-awaited second line to make polylactic acid comes on stream this week, boosting annual capacity for Ingeo PLA resin at its plant in Blair, Neb., from 150 million to 300 million pounds. At a June 24 luncheon at NPE2009, ...
Nova sets sights on Middle East.(News)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Nova Chemicals Corp. plans to invest significantly in Middle East polyethylene production, said recently installed CEO Chris Pappas. Speaking June 23 at NPE2009 in Chicago, Pappas said plans include a 1.1 billion to 1.2 billion-pound-per-year Advanced Sclair PE plant, and a 10 ...
Index of pipe, profile, tubing extrusion firms.(News)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Following is an alphabetical index of all 218 pipe, profile and tubing extruders in our ranking, along with page numbers for the top 100 firms in this issue. An asterisk (*) indicates a firm appearing only in our online ranking. For data on all the companies, go to www.plastics ...
R&B Plastics introduces new Max extruders; Company debuts single-screw line.(News)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Bill Bregar R&B Plastics Machinery LLC, known for making high-volume extrusion blow molding machines, chose NPE2009 to launch a new line of Max single-screw extruders. R&B displayed a Max machine with an extruder diameter of 21/2 inches. On the ...
Sabic to boost US imports.(News)(Company overview)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Frank Esposito Saudi Basic Industries Corp. isn't letting short-term economic woes slow down its global plans. Petrochemicals company Sabic, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has contracted with warehouses in Texas and New Jersey to import commodity resins from ...
New plastics stats: more US jobs lost.(News)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Plastics industry exports bottomed out in January and have been experiencing a steady increase since then, but the industry has lost more than 100,000 jobs in the past eight months, reducing employment to slightly less than 1 million. Both exports and imports rose in 2008, but ...
Vinyl window makers expect sales stimulus.(News)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Matt Griswold Businesses serving the window industry have been working to position themselves to take advantage of an anticipated upswing in window buyers. The reason for the expected surge is the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which includes ...
Report blasts fiber cement's "green' claims.(News)(Report)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Matt Griswold As the battle for a share of the "green marketplace rages, opponents are going to ever more detailed lengths to prove each other's environmentally friendly claims false. A recent example is the war over vinyl siding. Despite its being derived ...
W&H sells three-layer line off show floor.(News)
Jun 29, 2009 ... Byline: Michael Lauzon Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp. sold a three-layer blown film line on the second day of NPE2009. The Varex line is a high-output version with a 134-inch layflat, officials said at W&H's booth. The identity of the buyer was not immediately ...
AEP targets 2 plants for closure.(News)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Byline: Kelsey Henninger Film extruder AEP Industries Inc. has closed one plant and will close another as it continues to realign production following its 2008 acquisition of Atlantis Plastics Inc.'s films business. South Hackensack, N.J.-based AEP said in its ...
Albright strengthens medical capabilities.(News)(Albright Technologies Inc. )(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Byline: Frank Antosiewicz Albright Technologies Inc. is boosting its medical-device capabilities with the addition of a 1,000-square-foot ISO 7 clean room. "We want to make it very easy for a customer to deal with us, said President David Comeau. Albright, ...
Buckeye Composites founded for military nanotech business.(News)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Byline: Frank Esposito A pair of technology firms has joined forces to create Buckeye Composites, a business that will make nano-based plastic materials for the U.S. Air Force. The National Composite Center and NanoTech Labs Inc. are linked in the project, which is ...
Survey names San Francisco as costliest area for factories.(News)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Byline: Frank Antosiewicz The average annual cost of operating a plastics manufacturing plant in North America can range from a high of $20.7 million a year in the San Francisco area to a low of $10.7 million annually at a Mexican maquiladora site, according to a new study by ...
NEWSCLIPS.(News)
Jun 22, 2009 ... Husky grants Pelco technology license BOLTON, ONTARIO Pelco Tool & Mold Inc. has received an exclusive license for Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.'s patented technology for rotating ratchet rings in North America. Husky developed the system for unscrewing ...
Colby barrels along.(News)(Paul N. Colby)
Jun 22, 2009; ... Byline: Bill Bregar Paul N. Colby knew early on that he wanted his own company, to make his own decisions. That dream came true in 1978 when he founded Spirex Corp. in an unassuming building in Youngstown, Ohio. Colby designed and patented some landmark screws, ...