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Kraton Corp. will shutter the Dover, Ohio, site and discontinue production of dimer fatty acids and specialty nylon resins.
The drop in April comes after a 4-cent decline in March. Prices had been on the upswing in the first two months of 2025.
A national policy shift has reignited debate over plastic straws, as President Donald Trump’s administration defends ...
Texas, called the "largest untapped resource" for recyclables in the U.S., is debating a bipartisan bottle bill proposal.
Switzerland's Holcim Ltd. spent several years and billions of dollars building a company that could supply nearly all of the ...
Prices for post-industrial polypropylene have slightly decreased during the first weeks of the second quarter of 2025.
Flooring supplier Mohawk Industries Inc. expects to pay $50 million in 2025 because of tariffs placed on its luxury vinyl ...
A May 7 fire caused major damage to WD Plastics Ltd., a custom plastics solutions company in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
After 37 years in business, Hytech Tool & Mold Inc. is closing its doors. Owner Bill Swanson has decided to retire, and the ...
The plastics industry could get faster approval for new chemicals in an EPA reorganization, but others worry that newly ...
Years in the making, Plastics News is very pleased to provide all-access subscribers with the ability to download resin ...
"We didn't have capabilities of manufacturing PET bottles," said Bryan Thulin, president of Aaron Packaging. "So we're hoping ...