It’s been a long, long week out there for everyone. I wish we could say that things are about to get easier, but obviously, things may get even more complicated… Read more

As the remnants of Hurricane Ida continue to hit the U.S. far from the Gulf Coast — with record flash floods in New York and tornadoes in Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey… Read more

Well that retirement didn’t last long.Less than a week after LyondellBasell Industries announced that CEO Bob Patel would retire at the end of 2021, Standard Industries Holdings announced the 53-year-old… Read more

Here is one thing we know about how Hurricane Ida will affect the U.S. resin market: It will hit supplies, delivery and prices for materials.How much? For how long? How… Read more

About 17 years ago, I had a chance to visit the Gulf Coast as part of a story on the growth of the plastics industry in Mississippi. A year and… Read more

Several Plastic products have been named as conducted by R&D World magazine.The competition is in its 59th year. This year’s event received entries from 17 different countries/regions, officials said in… Read more

Right now, the is the most concrete thing happening in the business world to make plastics more circular.The group includes major consumer goods makers — who are also large buyers… Read more

It’s time to mark the career of an entrepreneur who brought to a wider market some of the most iconic Plastic housewares product lines of the 1970s. to resurrect plastic… Read more

One of the key U.S. Senate Republicans working on a bipartisan infrastructure package paid a recent visit to pipe extruder Advanced Drainage Systems Inc. to talk about both infrastructure and recycling.Rob… Read more

This is a story that will please a lot of folks in plastics. The New York Times has a story on how canvas reusable shopping totes really aren’t all that… Read more

ProPublica recently dug into the numbers behind in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017. Essentially, it notes that some people were… Read more

When Gordon Lankton, who had owned Nypro Inc., of this year, a lot of industry leaders mourned his death. But his work and vitality expanded far beyond plastics.On Aug. 14,… Read more

Our rotational molding ranking comes out in this week’s print issue of Plastics News. Let’s take a look behind the numbers that make up this special report.With combined sales of… Read more

Some of the world’s best athletes are about to show just what plastics can do to help them win.Not that I expect plastics will be mentioned specifically. Instead, the Tokyo… Read more

One of the smaller pieces of Plastic that consumers handle on a regular basis may be on its way out.Two major New Zealand bakeries have announced that they are eliminating… Read more

With the delta variant surging, should manufacturing companies and industry organizations require employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19?The National Association of Manufacturers has decided, at least for itself, the answer… Read more

A pair of designers are taking on the humble toothbrush, but rather than trying to add yet another tweak to its shape or function, they’re looking at a way to… Read more

Materials firm Kraton Corp. recently won a Platinum rating for its sustainability management system from EcoVadis.In a news release, Kraton Chief Sustainability Officer Marcello Boldrini said that the rating “highlights… Read more

If we’ve learned one thing from the past 18 months it’s this: People tend to believe things they read on social media. I’ve been guilty myself of seeing something cool… Read more