Key market trends through 2024 include continued down-gauging by film producers, which will drive demand for multi-layer films, according to Freedonia Group analysts.

Michigan-based packaging and automotive component group companies utilize resources to manufacture and donate PPE gowns for local hospitals.

General Motors has agreed to manufacture 30,000 ventilators, but there’s a hitch: Some of the parts it needs come from China and are subject to Trump-imposed tariffs.

Do all that you can to retain your current employees. The cost of hiring and training when the economy rebounds is significant, certainly far greater than the cost of keeping your employees on the payroll for a couple of months.

Market watcher IHS Markit predicts 2020 sales of 73.3 million units; with the U.S. hit particularly hard—a 26% vehicle sales decline year-on-year to 12.6 million units.

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Silicon Valley–based digital manufacturing company Carbon announced today that it is producing more than one million 3D-printed nasopharyngeal swabs per week for COVID-19 testing. It has also partnered with adidas to print and donate PPE face...

To help plastics processors deal with the unprecedented challenge of keeping a business running during the COVID-19 pandemic, Asaclean-Sun Plastech Inc. will provide free technical support by phone and via online platforms.

While environmental groups accuse the plastics industry of exploiting a health emergency, industry advocates see an opportunity to advance a fact-based discussion of the benefits of plastics.

Belgium’s 3D-printing pioneer Materialise has developed a device that can bring relief to patients awaiting a ventilator while an Israeli startup recruits a “Maker Army” to print and deliver protective gear.