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The two largest cities in California have passed laws that put new limits on single-use plastics.

Nestlé is making packaging-sustainability strides in Central America, using collation shrink film with 25% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content developed jointly with its resin and film suppliers. The new film is the result of Nestlé’s collaboration with resin producer ExxonMobil; film producer Ternova Group; and Channel Prime Alliance International (CPAI), an ExxonMobil-branded distributor and resin supplier in Central America. Nestlé uses the PCR-containing shrink film to collate milk-powder and flavor-concentrate tins…

Battery maker Clarios, the former battery business of Johnson Controls Inc., already recovers 80 percent of the materials from lead-acid batteries. If it can hit those same numbers for lithium-ion batteries that will be a big step toward a sustainable supply chain.

Gary Plastic Packaging Corp. plans to pull up stakes from the Bronx and head to Florida, where it has been offered job, tax and training incentives worth almost $1 million.

“Recession risk is rising in the U.S. and Europe,” ACC Chief Economist Martha Moore said on a Dec. 7 video conference call. “We expect a shallow recession to emerge in the U.S. in early 2023, but a recovery should be in full swing in 2024.”

Digital solutions are making it easy to maximize the full potential of production cells. They deliver a major contribution in terms of saving energy and cutting carbon footprints. At the Swiss Plastics Expo 2023 event, which will take place in Lucerne, Switzerland, on Jan. 17 to 19, Engel will show how this works by running an all-electric, efficiency-optimized injection molding machine at stand A 1001 in hall 1. When all…

Asheboro, N.C.-based Technimark LLC is investing $27 million to expand operations in Longford, Ireland, doubling the size of its existing plant.