The Plastics News Global Group — owned by Detroit-based Crain Communications Inc. — encompasses three print publications, three Web sites, five e-mail newsletters, two trade shows, more than a dozen conferences, and two industry award programs.

NORTH AMERICA:

Plastics News
PRINT: The group's flagship publication, Plastics News, is a 60,000-circulation, weekly newspaper serving primarily the North American market. Founded by Crain in Akron, Ohio, in 1989, it covers the business of the global plastics industry. Plastics News focuses on commercial, financial, legislative and market-related developments worldwide that affect North American plastic product manufacturers and their suppliers and customers. The publication's mission is to report completely, promptly, fairly and accurately, and to provide plastics industry officials with the market information and competitive intelligence they need to do their jobs more effectively.

DIGITAL: The April 1996 launch of the PlasticsNews.com Web site turned the weekly newspaper into a global daily news service. Various free e-mail newsletters include: Plastics News Daily NewsMail, the weekly Materials Alert, and the weekly Classifieds by E-mail. (See samples of all.)

EVENTS: Plastics News organizes several events, including its annual Executive Forum and its Plastics Encounter regional trade shows. These serve as forums for the presentation of new products and ideas and for independent discussion of issues of concern to the industry.

AWARDS: Plastics News presents two awards annually. Since 1996, it has given its Processor of the Year Award to a worthy North American plastics processor; the winner is crowned in a ceremony each year at the Executive Forum. Since 1998 PN also has honored the work of designers by presenting its IDSA/Plastics News Design Award at the annual conference of the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc.'s Alliance of Plastics Processors. The latter award is co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America.

EUROPE:

Plastics & Rubber Weekly and European Plastics News
PRINT: Crain acquired Emap Communications Ltd.'s polymer-related assets in July 2007. Those properties, headquartered in Croydon, England, include the two leading English-language plastics publications in Europe — Plastics & Rubber Weekly and the monthly European Plastics News. The 11,800-circulation PRW has been serving the U.K. plastics industry since 1964. European Plastics News launched in 1974, and is the only pan-European magazine serving the entire plastics manufacturing sector, including the growing industry in central and Eastern Europe. It circulates to 13,800 subscribers in 20 countries.

EVENTS: PRW launched the Plastics Design & Moulding exhibition in 2005 and stages it every 18 months in Telford, England. The event targets U.K. designers, specifiers and manufacturers of plastics molded products. EPN and PRW also organize about a dozen specialized business and technical conferences across Europe each year.

DIGITAL: The two European publications currently share an active PRW.com Web site, and produce a daily PRW.com Newsletter.

AWARDS: The Croydon group launched its annual, black-tie Plastics Industry Awards in London in 2001, to recognize the achievements of the U.K. plastics industry.

ASIA:

Plastics News China and Asian Plastics News
DIGITAL: Plastics News China eWeekly launched as a free, weekly e-mail newsletter in May 2005, along with a companion Web site, Plastics News China. Both are offered in English and simplified Chinese. PN broadcasts the eWeekly every Tuesday to about 15,000 subscribers worldwide.

PRINT: Via its 2007 deal with Emap, Plastics News also inherited a publishing licensing agreement with the management of the Singapore-based trade magazine Asian Plastics News. APN publishes 10 times a year and has 12,200 subscribers across Southeast Asia and beyond.

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