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Processor of the Year

MOST-READ STORIES

North American suppliers report shortages of polyethylene and ABS March 12, 2010
A123 signs auto battery deal March 15, 2010
Superb vision brings Ohio molder success despite the recession March 12, 2010
IBM and Stanford tout catalysts for creating recyclable, biodegradable polymers March 11, 2010
Recycling plant to help AERT control costs March 11, 2010

MOST E-MAILED STORIES

North American suppliers report shortages of polyethylene and ABS March 12, 2010
Superb vision brings Ohio molder success despite the recession March 12, 2010
Pallet maker Greystone forms recycling division March 11, 2010
Danafilms doubling Ky. plant size, adding W&H extruder March 12, 2010
Forward thinkers: Skills take GW from automotive into medical March 16, 2010

Viewpoints

Award winner, finalists share top qualities

Vermont custom injection molder GW Plastics Inc., the latest Plastics News Processor of the Year, is best known for its transformation from mainly an automotive supplier into a well-known medical molder. But there’s much more to the GW story. (Videos about GW and each finalist can be found at plasticsnews.com/video.)

Electronics waste: agree to disagree

Electronics recycling in the United States suffers from the same maddening conflict as national health-care reform: Almost everyone agrees it needs to happen, and no one is able to build a real consensus to make it happen.

Mood melancholy at Fencetech show

The atmosphere in the building and construction industry is quite different from a decade ago when housing starts were booming. Nowhere was this more apparent than the show floor at Fencetech.

Will consumers get police state humor?

Humor is a big part of Super Bowl advertising. This year, one of the jokes was on the plastics industry in the form of an ad showing politically correct “Green Police” arresting users of PET water bottles, polystyrene foam drinking cups and other plastic products.

Rx: Medical sector a remedy for some

For all the hand-wringing amid the current economic malaise, there is one group of plastics processors who, generally speaking, seem to be weathering the storm better than most — those serving the medical market.

Do you need a bag? Yeah, make it plastic

It’s legislative season in most U.S. state capitals, so we’re starting to see a flurry of bills being proposed to tax or ban plastic bags.

Supply-chain trends among forum topics

The economic tsunami of the past year or so has prompted many North American manufacturers to reassess their strategies on outsourcing, offshoring and, now — using the term for the month — “backshoring.”

Private equity firms on prowl once more

Industry pros contacted by Plastics News for this week’s M&A special report said they expect private equity to play a larger role this year — and they apparently weren’t kidding.

Some good news in the plastics industry

Let's call this our “three cheers” column. I’ll highlight a few good-news stories featured recently in “The Plastics Blog,” ones about the Iowa Grocery Industry Association, Essel Propak Ltd. and Plastic Logic LLC.

Here are your picks: top PN stories of 2009

At the beginning of a new year, newspapers often take a moment to review the stories and headlines that editors considered most important in the previous 12 months. But rather than me telling you what I consider the top stories of the year, let me share what you, the readers of PlasticsNews.com, considered the biggest news. Here are the 20 most-read stories from our Web site last year.

Here's our wish list for industry health

With our first issue of 2010, Plastics News restates and updates its agenda for the industry.

As the Globe turns: a zany look back at '09

As the year winds down, we present our annual Plastic Globe awards, a celebration of dubious or otherwise unusual news from 2009.

Something needs to change in 2010

Plastics News senior reporter Bill Bregar checks in on the state of the U.S. plastics machinery industry is we head into the new year.

And now, for something completely different

Plastics News Managing Editor Don Loepp shares his thoughts on the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc.’s decision to move the 2012 and 2015 NPE shows to Orlando, Fla.

Can Chicago change enough to keep NPE?

Pressure is building on Chicago to find a way to keep the 2012 and 2015 NPE shows. On Nov. 11, news leaked out that the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society will hold its 2012 gathering in Las Vegas instead of Chicago, because of the high cost of labor at Chicago’s McCormick Place.

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