These stories are part of our 36,000-plus story archive online, dating to January 1994. Please remember to add news@plasticsnews.com to your address book or approved sender list to ensure you receive our e-mails.
| | Breaking News | Investors buying Camoplast's thermoplastic division
SHERBROOKE, QUEBEC (Oct. 3, 3:15 p.m. ET) -- Private equity firm Desjardins Group is buying the thermoplastic division of Canada’s Camoplast Solidealis. The division’s management team ... (more)
Germany's Wirthwein building $12 million molding plant in South Carolina
FOUNTAIN INN, S.C. (Oct. 3, 12:10 p.m. ET) -- German auto supplier Wirthwein AG is expanding its North American production with a $12 million plant in Fountain Inn. South Carolina Plastics LLC ... (more)
Private equity firm buying Bway for $1.24 billion
ATLANTA (Oct. 3, 12:05 p.m. ET) -- BWay Parent Co. Inc., a rigid packaging supplier that operates through its subsidiary BWay Corp., has been acquired by private equity firm Platinum Equity LLC in ... (more)
Westlake adding PVC capacity, switch to ethane feedstock
HOUSTON (Oct. 3, 3:05 p.m. ET) -- Westlake Chemical Corp. is increasing its investment in Calvert City, Ky., with plans to increase annual production capacities for PVC resin and ethylene ... (more)
Newsletter continued below...
| Today's sponsor: |  |  | Web tool helps grocers recycle rigid plastics
WASHINGTON (Oct. 3, 11:55 a.m. ET) -- New online tools designed to help grocery stores recycle more of the large bulky rigid plastic containers used in the backrooms of their deli, bakery and ... (more)
'Active grille shutters' find way into production cars
AURORA, ONTARIO (Oct. 3, 11:55 a.m. ET) -- The North American auto industry is adding another piece of technology to its stable of fuel-sipping ... (more)
Fire destroys Colt, Ark., molding plant
COLT, ARK. (Oct. 3, 11:50 a.m. ET) -- Fire destroyed plastics injection molder K-Tops Plastic Manufacturing Inc., according to several local news ... (more)
Azelis sells composites business to Velox
ANTWERP, BELGIUM (Oct. 3, 11:50 a.m. ET) -- Azelis Holding SA, the specialty chemical distributor, has sold its composites business to German raw materials firm Velox GmbH for an undisclosed ... (more)
New extrusion blow PET meets recycling protocol
KINGSPORT, TENN. (Oct. 3, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- Eastman Chemical Co. has debuted a polyester specifically designed for extrusion blow molding and ... (more)
| | Multimedia |  Video: PMD 2012: John Felton
Fluoropolymer resins also are gaining ground in the medical area through applications such as catheters, heat-shrink tubing, sutures, biocontainment vessels, pre-filled syringes and inhaler ... (more) | | | | | The Plastics Blog | Inteva's dapper demonstration of slush-molded TPO
Oct 3, 10:32 AM -- When it comes to business, Patrick Stewart doesn't wear his heart on his sleeve. Mostly because the thermoplastic polyolefin vest he had made doesn't have sleeves. The vice president and executive director for auto supplier Inteva Products LLC had a... (more)
| |
| Also of Interest | | Inteva's Stewart to Deliver "The Big Picture in Interiors" Pat Stewart, vice president & executive director of interior systems, for Inteva Products LLC, will provide "The Big Picture in Interiors" during Plastics News' Plastics in Lightweight Vehicles conference, to be held Nov. 6-7 in Livonia, Mich. Stewart leads the global interior systems product line team and is responsible for developing and executing global growth strategies, driving customer satisfaction, leading product and process engineering, advancing technology and innovation and managing financial business decisions for interior systems. Stewart will deliver his presentation on Wednesday, Nov. 7. Due to the great success of collocation last year, PN is partnering with SPE's Automotive Division, which will hold its annual Innovation Awards Competition & Gala on Nov. 7. See the full agenda at www.plasticsnews.com/plv2012 including coverage from last year's event. | |
E-mail this to a friend
No comments:
Post a Comment
Comment as Anonymous - no need your name...