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Compounder Citadel makes acquisition, plans second plant in China

Published: Monday, December 09, 2013 9:37 PM Beijing Time

Citadel Plastic Holdings Inc. sure likes spending its money in Evansville, Ind. The company, which also is planning to build a second plant in China, has purchased compounder Lucent Polymers.


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Dow Chemical to separate chlorine business

Published: Monday, December 09, 2013 9:35 PM Beijing Time

Dow Chemical Co. is spinning off what it calls "a significant portion" of its chlorine value chain, including its global epoxy business and units that make feedstocks used in PVC production


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US molder with a plant in China adds technical center

Published: Monday, December 09, 2013 9:33 PM Beijing Time

Evco Plastics has converted 5,000 square foot of space into a technical center as it starts a program aimed at remaking its headquarters into an innovation center.


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US molder invests in its largest molding machine

Published: Monday, December 09, 2013 9:31 PM Beijing Time

SALINE, MICH. -- Officials of MMI Engineered Solutions Inc. showed off a large new Negri Bossi Bi-Power injection molding press at an open house Dec. 4 -- part of an expansion by the automotive molder that signals the robust auto sector will keep investing in machinery.


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As toolmaking in China changes, Cosmos moves factory, focuses on technology

Published: Monday, December 09, 2013 9:28 PM Beijing Time

Cosmos Tooling Solution Ltd., an American-Chinese joint venture mold maker, has a problem common to many factories in China's coastal manufacturing zones: keeping good staff in a place with rapidly rising wages and a transient workforce.


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Continental Structural Plastics targets China for acquisitions

Published: Monday, December 09, 2013 9:26 PM Beijing Time

AUBURN HILLS, MICH. -- Continental Structural Plastics is closing in on a deal that will take it to China as well as expand in the United States to make carbon fiber auto parts.


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India's plastics industry asks for government help

Published: Monday, December 09, 2013 9:24 PM Beijing Time

MUMBAI -- The All India Plastics Manufacturers Association is seeking government help -- so its members can invest in new technology, and in the form of new plastics parks all over the country.


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Study: Plastic consumption to double in India by 2016

Published: Monday, December 09, 2013 9:23 PM Beijing Time

MUMBAI -- Fueled by increasing plastics usage in automobiles, consumer packaging and government spending on infrastructure, India's plastics industry is set to double per capita consumption in next five years, according to a report from the Plastindia Foundation.


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Arburg roars into Shanghai warehouse

Published: Thursday, December 05, 2013 7:49 PM Beijing Time

Arburg GmbH & Co. KG has opened a 1,500-square-meter machine warehouse in Shanghai. The opening ceremony was attended by 100 customers who witnessed four diverse applications running on Allrounder injection molding machines.


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Plastics exporters to benefit from European Union-Canada trade deal

Published: Thursday, December 05, 2013 7:47 PM Beijing Time

European Union and Canadian plastics exporters are to benefit from a new free trade deal. Once the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has been ratified (probably in 2015), it will lead to all existing non-food duties imposed on good traded between the parties being scrapped.


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