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International Plastics Design award winners announced
 Hospira's award-winning iSecure syringe
Rubbermaid to use Mirel bioplastic in consumer product
CHICAGO (June 26, 2009) -- Bioplastics maker Metabolix has landed a pretty big fish in the sea of consumer products: Consumer and commercial products maker Newell Rubbermaid, which will use
Mirel-brand bioplastic made by Telles -- the bioplastics joint venture between Metabolix and Archer Daniels Midland -- in an unspecified consumer-based, retail product.
Silcotech targets India's domestic market with new JV
CHICAGO (June 23, 2009) -- Canadian liquid silicone molder Silcotech North America Inc. and India’s Bonny Products Pvt. Ltd. have formed a joint venture aimed at tapping India’s domestic market,
the latest step in Silcotech’s push into developing economies, following startups in China and Bulgaria.
China’s manufacturers mull ways to boost industry
 Chan
PTI to introduce Globaline extrusion system at NPE
CHICAGO (June 16, 2009) -- Processing Technologies International LLC (PTI) is unveiling its new Globaline extrusion system that allows efficient short-run production of sheet at NPE2009. The system is
especially designed for PTI’s strategy of expanding into areas such as Russia, Eastern Europe, South America, China and India where an extrusion line needs to handle a variety of jobs.
German molder Oechsler optimistic in China
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Fathead wall graphics’ popularity a slam dunk
 Fathead graphic of U.S. basketball player LeBron James
Resin makers realizing China’s import potential
 Hanck
Nanocyl technology helps make plastics electric
GUANGZHOU (May 26, 2009) -- Displayed inside a glass case at the Nanocyl SA’s booth at Chinaplas was a large-scale model of the company’s product -- a bunch of white tubes connected at the tips to
form a web. It could have been an anonymous model inside a high school science lab, but for Nanocyle, the potential of its product depends entirely on its shape.
U.S. judge drops case alleging Teflon health risks
DES MOINES, IOWA (May 19, 2009) -- A lawsuit claiming health risks connected to DuPont Co.’s Teflon-brand fluoropolymer has been dropped by a U.S. District Court.
MGA says Bratz ruling won’t impact other brands
HUDSON, OHIO (May 5, 2009) -- A judge has ruled that MGA Entertainment Inc. has to stop making its landmark Bratz dolls, in the legal battle pitting MGA with Mattel Inc. and its rival Barbie. MGA said
the court ruling will not impact its other brands, including products made by rotational molder Little Tikes Co.
Japan’s Teijin to restructure some plastics businesses
TOKYO, JAPAN (May 5, 2009) -- Hit by what it calls sharply deteriorating performance in recent months, diversified Japanese chemical firm Teijin Group said it wants to “drastically restructure”
some plastics businesses, including PET film and fibers and polycarbonate resin. Teijin said it wants to make a long-term shift away from those commodity materials, which now are 50 percent of sales,
and seek to boost business with high-performance materials, pharmaceuticals, home health care and “green chemistry.”
Hong Kong rotomolder endeavors to build its brand
 Li Kam of MP Engineering Co. Ltd.
Niches paying off for some Chinese housewares molders
HONG KONG (April 28, 2009) -- One key gauge of the health of China’s housewares industry -- exports through the port of Hong Kong -- dropped 26 percent in the first two months of the year, and many
plastics suppliers in that sector say they have seen a similar drop off. Not everyone is declining, but many export-oriented companies interviewed at the Hong Kong Houseware Fair last week said the
sector overall has been hit hard and it’s not clear if it’s reached the bottom yet.
Underwriters Laboratories buys Bayer plastics testing lab
NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS (April 28, 2009) -- Underwriters Laboratories Inc. has purchased a plastics testing lab in Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany, from Bayer MaterialScience AG. The deal will allow
Northbrook-based Underwriters Laboratories -- an independent organization that tests more than 19,000 products, components, materials and systems each year -- to expand its services in the plastics
market.
China’s plastic toy exporters remain hopeful
GUANGZHOU (May 19, 2009) -- Maybe the best that could be said for China’s export-oriented plastic toy makers is that they are hopeful for a rebound this year. With retail toy sales in its largest
market, the United States, falling 3 percent in 2008, many firms are in the position of injection molder New Element Toys Co. Ltd., which cut its workforce from 300 before the financial crisis to
under 200 today.
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Valerie Casey, global practice leader for design firm IDEO, discusses the Designers Accord, which some have described as the
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