There’s been an interesting M&A battle happening between suppliers of automotive Plastic components in Europe.The founding family owners of Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. of Lippstadt, Germany, a maker of… Read more

Hoffer Plastics Corp. is turning to its existing workers to help it recruit new ones.The South Elgin, Ill.-based molder has launched a initiative to “rebrand” the image of jobs in… Read more

Injection molder Matrix 4 — or — and its owner, Patricia Miller, have done a lot of work to change the image of what manufacturing looks like. Now they’re taking… Read more

Let’s call 2021 the year of big decisions for CEOs.Here are just a few of the questions they face: Do you require masks and vaccinations, encourage them, or make them… Read more

Let’s call 2021 the year of big decisions for CEOs.Here are just a few of the questions they face: Do you require masks and vaccinations, encourage them, or make them… Read more

One summer during college, I worked at a fruit packing plant. This was the 1980s, and in retrospect the safety precautions weren’t really that great. As in the training was… Read more

Here’s a pandemic story you can jot down in ink. Preferrably with one of Newell Brands Inc.’s many brands of pens.With most students headed back to in-person school this fall,… Read more

Stock prices of publicly held plastics materials firms have continued to recover in the first seven months of 2021.Prices of many of the 15 materials firms tracked by Plastics News… Read more

The pandemic has changed a lot of consumers’ buying habits.Just recall early 2020 when there was a toilet paper shortage, along with a lack of both cleaning supplies (like hand… Read more

Plastics News readers have seen a lot of coverage in our pages about marine pollution, both in oceans and inland lakes.When our sister publications Crain’s Chicago Business and Crain’s Detroit… Read more

The Society of Plastics Engineers’ PlastiVan program has visited hundreds — if not thousands — of classrooms over the years to introduce kids to plastics and STEM programs in general.But… Read more

Plastics News tackles the issue of diversity this week in our first special report on the topic. We plan to make it an annual feature.I’m glad that we got to… Read more

Almost every company likes to brag that it has a long and storied history. Trilogy Plastics Inc. just happens to have one that stands out a little more.The rotomolder was… Read more

Welcome to August, where staycation season remains a big driver for consumer dollars.Just in the past few days, Plastics News has run stories on a $61 million expansion for ,… Read more

Let’s cut up some potatoes in the Veg-O-Matic, take our Pocket Fisherman out to the lake and tell passersby via our Mr. Microphone that we’ll be back to pick them… Read more

The labor shortage is prompting more investments in automation, with companies buying equipment that can pick up the slack on shop floors.At least that’s the take from Wittmann Battenfeld Inc.,… Read more

Supply issues are continuing to dominate the economic outlook for global businesses, with issues related to shipping continuing to add to earlier shortages of materials.And some top executives are warning… Read more

Global plastics companies have been responding to help regions hit with catastrophic flooding in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands as well as China earlier this month.Twenty members of Klöckner Pentaplast… Read more

This week’s print issue of Plastics News features , 50 women from a wide range of backgrounds and experience filling jobs at every level of the industry. You can also… Read more