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Sweden’s Nefab Group AB is growing its already-sizable presence in North America with a just-announced purchase of PolyFlex Products Inc.

Procter & Gamble is bringing the packaging benefits of a concentrated product to the mouthwash category with its new palm-size Crest Scope Squeez package. The product is P&>’s first concentrated mouthwash. The squeeze bottle delivers the same number of mouthwash doses as a regular 1-liter bottle but with much less packaging. According to P&>, Scope Squeez uses 70% less packaging than a 500-ml Scope mouthwash bottle and provides up to…

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. (ADNOC) has offered more than $11 billion to acquire global plastics and chemicals firm Covestro AG, according to major media reports.

CG Roxane, the Novato, CA-based producer of Crystal Geyser Alpine Spring Water, has opened its second in-house recycled PET (rPET) plant. The new facility, in Benton, TN, supports CG Roxane’s goal of producing water bottles with at least 50% rPET content. The company’s original in-house rPET plant is in San Bernardino, CA. Together, the two facilities will supply CG Roxane’s bottlers nationwide with rPET pellets to create new bottles. By…

A new 25,000-square-foot facility will be equipped with seven new presses to manufacture control products, communication accessories for astronauts, first responders, military personnel and others.

The company is modernizing its Global Innovation Center in Ohio that works in material science research and development.

Even without controversial virgin resin production caps, some in the industry say the global plastics treaty being negotiated now will mean less virgin plastic use.

Materials maker Techmer PM has received a silver medal in the EcoVadis Sustainability Assessment.