Metabolix Pulls Plug On Plant, Scales Back to Conserve Cash
Bioplastics development continues to sputter as the economics for volume applications weaken. In early November of last year, executives of bioplastics developer Metabolix said: “We remain on-track to...
View ArticleTwo Plastics DotComs Will Debut At The NPE Startup Garage
One of the interesting exhibits at NPE2015 next month in Orlando, Florida, will be the “Startup Garage” featuring new ventures aiming to get a foothold in the plastics [..]
View ArticleDow-DuPont Merger: What Would It Mean For Plastics?
The once stable world of engineering plastics took another crazy turn last night when the Wall Street Journal reported that Dow and DuPont are in the advanced stages [..]
View ArticleStrong Machinery Sales: Is The Party Almost Over?
The market for injection molding machinery in the United States was very strong for the past two quarters, according to data released this week by the SPI Committee On [..]
View ArticleWalmart’s Buy America Program Is Falling Woefully Short
With much fanfare, Walmart announced a buy America program in 2013. It was obviously an important development because Walmart after all was the company that created the “China [..]
View ArticleThe Trump Presidency: Be Careful What You Wish For
Amid optimism that the incoming Trump administration will boost American manufacturing, officials of the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), formerly known as SPI, are pressing for at least five...
View ArticleMexican Trade Issue Clouds US Plastics Outlook
President Trump’s Mexico policy is the elephant in the room as the U.S. plastics industry emerges from a difficult 2016. “Shipments of plastics equipment rose steadily during the [..]
View ArticleDuPont Takes Historic Exit From Plastics
For more than 80 years, The name DuPont was almost synonymous with plastics. Some of the industry’s greatest innovations emerged from the company’s famous labs in Delaware. Nylon, [..]
View ArticleWhere is Zytel Now? Back In Wilmington
DuPont’s Performance Plastics business is back in Wilmington, Delaware after a very brief 12 days as part of Dow’s Materials Sciences group in Midland, Michigan, where it clearly [..]
View ArticleThe Future of DuPont’s Global-Leading Bio Materials Looks Murky
As the DowDuPont saga unfolds, one of the more interesting story lines will be the fate of DuPont’s best-in-class biomaterials business, which began with a collaboration more than [..]
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