Italian automotive interior-materials supplier Vulcaflex SpA will invest about $70 million to build its first North American manufacturing plant in Auburn, Ala., creating 130 jobs and producing ...

LEUNA-Polyamid GmbH has filed for insolvency less than three months after the newly formed company acquired the former Domo Caproleuna site in Leuna, Germany.

The Channahon, Ill., plant has been in operation since 1960 and employs about 100. Ineos says it will rely on two other facilities in North America to supply customers in the region.

Conservationists are bringing another lawsuit over plastic pollution from resin plants, suing an Alpek and Eastman PET plant in South Carolina. One new twist: the lawsuit alleges illegal discharges of ...

Gould Industries, a Canadian manufacturer of private-label bags and packaging products that recycles more than 55 million ...

IKO Industries has broken ground on a C$45 million (US$33.7 million) extruded polystyrene insulation plant in Brantford, Ontario, marking the company's entry into XPS manufacturing and creating about ...

After months of steep resin price increases driven by supply fears and geopolitical turmoil, Plastics News' Frank Esposito ...

A group of 50 Democrats in the House and Senate sent a letter to the EPA June 18 opposing changes to chemical recycling regulations.

Trex's latest sustainability report shows that film recycling can work at massive scale, but new research on agricultural mulch film is a reminder that collecting, cleaning and creating circular ...

Activist investor Mill Pond Capital is urging Rayonier Advanced Materials to pursue a sale after revealing the company rejected a $11-$12-per-share takeover offer from American Industrial Partners ...

The plastics industry is pushing the EPA to drop microplastics from a list of potential drinking water contaminants, but health and environmental groups want the agency to go further.

Homeland Vinyl Products Inc. will invest $5.5 million and create 50 jobs in Surgoinsville, Tenn., as the vinyl fencing, decking and railing manufacturer undertakes its third expansion in the state ...