Consumer Products

Construction

Techmer PM Expands Operations with Production Facility in Mexico

Company aims to start up operations in second half of 2017.

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Packaging

Nylon 6 Producer AdvanSix Launched as an Independent Company

AdvanSix's competitive advantage includes its vertically-integrated manufacturing.

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Moderate Growth Ahead For Electronics Production

Signs suggest this market is poised for faster growth.

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economics

August’s Index—48.7

Custom processors grow for fourth month out of six.

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Automotive

Finnish Startup Gets IMSE Lighting Patent

TactoTek’s newly-patented technology available for licensing.

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Biopolymers

Metabolix Sells Bioplastics Business

With the sale of its ´óÏó´«Ã½ this month to food and bioengineering Korean giant CJ CheilJedang, Metabolix exits the bioplastics ´óÏó´«Ã½.

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Additives

Great Lakes Opens New Global Flame Retardant R&D Center

New center includes applications development area includes large-scale and molding equipment.

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Albis Plastic and Barnet Launch Recycling Joint Venture

The new Albis Barnet Polymers company will recycle, repelletize, and market post-industrial raw material, and use them to compound Albis' componds.

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Packaging

The Verdict Is In: Brand Owners Want Recycled PP

The Association of Postconsumer Recyclers surveyed 21 consumer brand companies regarding the potential for PCR PP.

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Materials

Sekisui Plastics Starts Up New Hybrid Foam Molding Facility in Mexico

Sekisui Plastics continues to expand its ´óÏó´«Ã½ both in the U.S. and in Mexico.

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Process Cooling
Blending & Dosing
Plastics Size Reduction