While posting 11% year-over-year sales growth in the first quarter, Avient has announced its intent to purchase DSM Protective Materials for $1.48 billion in a move to expand its composites and fiber ...

UK-based RPC Group is set to purchase closure and dispensing systems manufacturer Global Closure Systems (GCS; Saint Cloud, France) for 650 million euros ($712 million) on a cash-free, debt-free basis ...

Design4Circularity, a personal care packaging concept, won this year’s Sustainable Packaging Award from Ecovia Intelligence announced November at the 2022 Sustainable Beauty Awards ceremony. Resulting ...

Organic gardening brand Back to the Roots is digging deeper into sustainability by transitioning its best-selling Organic Potting Mix to bags made of certified circular, 100% post-consumer recycled ...

A growing population of elderly patients using an array of remote diagnostics and other digital medical devices is driving demand for plastics in medical applications, which jumped 6.3% between 2017 ...

Editor's note: Longtime PlasticsToday columnist Clare Goldsberry wrote this article in 2018. It has since been updated. Clare retired in 2021. Can you believe that at one time plastic was too ...

Sustainability is dominating discussions in the packaging industry to the point that packaging success and sustainability are now inseparable. Brands, printers, packaging suppliers, and other ...

A new polyamide (PA) 11 developed for medical applications combines performance and lightweight properties with sustainability credentials. Part of Arkema’s Advanced Bio-Circular materials portfolio, ...

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BASF has entered into an agreement to divest its Neopolen expanded polypropylene (EPP) business to Knauf Industries GmbH. Neopolen enables the manufacturing of lightweight molded parts for the ...

Founded in 1978, Florida-based precision injection mold maker Cavaform is a family-owned business serving primarily medical device OEMs. It recently received a 2021 Sterling Manufacturing Business ...

On June 9, the management board of Grupa Azoty S.A. decided to discontinue its POM (polyacetal) business. The decision was prompted by the conclusion that the POM business would not be economically ...