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PlastiComp Inc. (Winona, MN) has increased production capacity for long-fiber thermoplastic (LFT) compounding with the installation of a new line of approximately 5 million lb/yr output.

Custom compounder and resin suppler A. Schulman Inc. (Akron, OH) has opened a new plastics masterbatch manufacturing facility in Vadodara, Gujarat, India to supply India's growing flexible packaging, appliance, and consumer products markets.

Polymer nanoparticles that are drawn to cancer cells could become an important detection tool, according to a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society.

The plastics industry is doing relatively well in spite of economic concerns and weakness in some sectors supplied by plastics processors. That's the analysis given by Michael Taylor, Senior Director of Internal Affairs & Trade for the Society of the Plastics Industry, speaking at the 'Business of Plastics @ ANTEC' conference.

DME Company will be presenting a number of new injection molding solutions at the upcoming Plast-Ex show (May 14-16; Toronto), Canada's largest and most important plastics industry event.

Among the mold equipment supplier's technology on display will be:

If you're familiar with Engel machines, you know that the company favors a green color theme. But green isn't just a bright color on an all-electric Engel e-cap injection molding machine—it appears the company has adopted a sustainable mentality for all of its packaging equipment.

I recently attended Engel Packaging Days 2013 (April 24-25) at the company's North American headquarters in York, PA. It was a great event full of not only Engel machines, but also several presentations from various levels of the supply chain.

Both sides of the plastic bottle battle aired their arguments for and against the PET packaging last week in an article by Packaging Channel Editor Heather Caliendo. On the one side, Erin McNally-Diaz of Corporate Accountability International, opened up with a biting, and common, accusation:

Bottled water corporations have attempted to change the way we think about water, which is a basic human right, to make it a commodity.

A new glass roving specifically designed and formulated for acrylic resins allows for the manufacture and production of glass reinforced PMMA (polymethyl methacrylate) thermoplastic composites.

From 3B-the fibreglass company (Battice, Belgium), the roving employs E-CR glass, which is an alumino-lime silicate with less than one weight-percent of alkali oxides that exhibits high acid resistance.

York, PA - "Is all-electric the future? We say, 'yes,'" Christoph Steger, head of the Engel packaging business unit, told attendees during Engel Packaging Days 2013 (April 24-25) at the company's North American headquarters in York, PA.

IPEG Inc. (Cranberry Township, PA) has acquired Thermal Care Inc. (Niles, IL), boosting its heat transfer presence in the plastics industry and building out its auxiliaries portfolio, which already includes The Conair Group, Rapid Granulator, and Republic Machine, which it acquired o