Article: California county makes plastics a priority.(News)(Butte County)

Byline: Roger Renstrom

A county, university and plastics-related firms in northern California are collaborating to boost local industry.

Meantime, a federal grant is pending to upgrade the plastics and polymer science program at the California State University campus in Chico.

Butte County "has a growing plastics industry in a very important location'' and an opportunity to benefit from the university's program, said Mike Donnelly, business development director for the county's Economic Development Corp. In October, EDC - the lead agency for attracting business - began knitting together a matrix of companies involved with aspects of polymer ...

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