1:70 min Management
Husky names Carmen Lowe Vice President, Service and Sales, North America
Husky Injection Molding Systems today announced that Carmen Lowe has been named its new Vice President, Service and Sales, North America. Mr. Lowe takes on leadership responsibility for building Husky’s business in the region. He succeeds Mike Diletti, who has left the ...
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1:27 min Management
Klaus-Dieter Kapp appointed as New Business Division Manager, Automotive
Effective August 1 2008, Klaus-Dieter Kapp has become the Business Division Manager Automotive for Mold-Masters Europa GmbH in Baden-Baden. In this new role he is responsible for, among other strategic tasks, the development and further improvement of Mold-Masters’ activities in the ...
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1:51 min PET materials
Eastman Tritan™ copolyester receives favorable opinion from Health Canada
Eastman Chemical Company announced today that Eastman Tritan™ copolyester received a favorable opinion for use in contact with food from the Food Directorate of Canada’s federal health department, Health Canada. Tritan™, a new-generation copolyester, is used in a broad range of ...
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2:43 min PET materials
Highly clarified, high flow polypropylene grades from PolyMirae offer customers cost-saving potential
PolyMirae Company Ltd, a joint venture of LyondellBasell and Daelim, has developed two new PP resins, Clyrell RC5003 and Moplen RP5007, which aim to address the increasing demands of customers in high transparency and high flow applications.Given its high transparency, Clyrell RC5003 ...
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2:46 min Regions
new Plastic Containers study
US demand for plastic containers will advance 5.4 percent annually through 2012 to nearly $32 billion, creating demand for 15.7 billion pounds of resin. Gains will be bolstered by plastic’s many benefits relative to other packaging media, including light weight, shatter resistance, ...
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2:80 min Regions
European PET bottle collection increases by nearly 20%
Petcore announced today that European post-sorting PET collection reached 1.13m tonnes in 2007, an increase of about 20% on 2006.In 2007 just about 40% of all PET bottles in the market were collected for recycle.The overall share of fibres as an end use for recycled PET decreased ...
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1:35 min Regions
Rexam closes manufacturing plant in US, further aligning plastic packaging operations
Rexam, a global leader in consumer packaging, today announced the closure of the Bowling Green, Ohio, plastic packaging manufacturing plant. The closure further aligns the company's manufacturing capabilities, improves overall asset utilization and helps balance industry capacity and ...
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