1:40 min Management
Court confirms Constar’s plan of reorganization
Constar International Inc. announced today that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware indicated its approval of Constar’s emergence from Chapter 11 in accordance with the Plan of Reorganization for Constar and its affiliated debtors. At the hearing, the Court ruled ...
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2:53 min Compression moulding
Sacmi at Chinaplas: Fastest compression moulding machine in the world for plastic cap production
Notwithstanding the current market slowdown, SACMI’s Closures&Containers team, international industry leader in the manufacture of complete lines for plastic cap production, has significantly accelerated development and research into state-of-the art technical and technological ...
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4:40 min Facts & Figures
2008 business year: Krones' profits up againFirst quarter 2009: Global recession hits performance
Global recession hits performance in 2009’s first quarter – Krones proposes 0.60 euros-per-share dividend for 2008Krones AG, the world’s market leader for beverage filling and packaging technology, had another highly successful year in 2008. At 2,381.4 million euros, consolidated ...
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2:56 min Additives
PolyOne extends sustainable PlanetPak™ Packaging System to color and additive concentrates
PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, today announced it will transition to the PlanetPak™ Packaging System as the standard container for color and additive concentrates in North America. The PlanetPak container ...
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2:39 min Facts & Figures
LyondellBasell adds holding company to Chapter 11 protection
LyondellBasell Industries today announced that LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A. has been voluntarily added to Lyondell Chemical Company's reorganization filing under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to protect the European holding company against claims by certain financial ...
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1:16 min Preform moulds
Mold-Masters provides online Hot Runner Justification Tool
For high volume molders, the decision to use a hot runner is an obvious one. The fact is with the high cost of plastic, energy and manpower, hot runners make sense even when small volumes of molded parts are required. Cold runners run slower cycles, consume more energy, use more ...
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0:41 min Regions
The Pepsi Bottling Group acknowledges receipt of unsolicited proposal from Pepsico
The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. (NYSE: PBG) confirmed that it received an unsolicited, non-binding proposal from PepsiCo, Inc. to acquire all the outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock not owned by PepsiCo for $29.50 per share. PBG said that its Board of Directors will ...
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