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Meena Banasiak of Phoenix Closures tells attendees of the Women Breaking the Mold Networking Forum how to reframe decision making when balancing their priorities.

This week we have pricing news on three commodity resins, including a surprising change for polystyrene. Also, congressional Democrats introduce the Protecting Communities From Plastics Act, which industry officials say would cripple the U.S. plastics industry and worsen the climate crisis.

It’s only the first of five rounds of talks toward a global plastics treaty, but from the session wrapping up in Uruguay, it’s clear that the agreement could substantially reshape the plastics industry.

As the plastics industry grapples with solutions for a circular economy, low-constant-pressure molding is stepping up with breakthrough advances to run difficult sustainable materials, reduce energy use and offer design flexibility to lightweight parts. Developed by Hamilton, Ohio-based Imflux Inc., a software and engineering firm that is subsidiary of Procter & Gamble, the processing software called Imflux uses low pressure and low heat to mold while taking advantage of the…

The world isn’t as flat as it used to be. Back in 2005 when The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman hit bookstores, the one-two punch of globalization and China’s emergence as the world’s workshop seemed an unstoppable force. The view is very different from the perspective of 2022, and a report from Shale Crescent USA (SCUSA) released last month makes the case that offshoring…

Trenton, N.J. lighting manufacturer Tektite Industries Inc. has acquired the assets of Pennsylvania-based C&M Mold and Tool Co. effective Sept. 1. The “strategic move for both companies,” Scott Mele, president and owner of Tektite told Plastics News in an email, was “up and fully running” by Nov. 15. C&M’s equipment was consolidated and moved into Tektite’s Trenton, N.J., facility. All of C&M’s employees now work for Tektite and no jobs…