The co-head of a new $144 million U.S. government research program on microplastics said the effort wants to "remove micro and nanoplastics as a future health threat." ...

PPG Industries plans to close the Alabama manufacturing plant it acquired through its $65 million purchase of Ozark Materials earlier this year, eliminating 52 jobs.

Plastics News Economics Editor Bill Wood expects the U.S. economy to remain on a positive but subdued path in 2027, with manufacturing continuing to face challenges from inflation, interest rates and ...

North American resin markets have swung sharply back in buyers' favor—Polymer Points explains why prices are falling, what it means for virgin and recycled resins, and whether producers can make the ...

Cola’s bottler in Southern Thailand, is scaling up a local bottle-to-bottle recycling partnership as virgin PET market volatility increases demand for alternative supplies.

The new sorting plant is the first in Singapore capable of sorting six material streams on a single automated line: aluminium, steel, clear PET, coloured PET, HDPE and PP.

Otto Environmental Systems' bankruptcy settlement creates a $2 million pool for creditors while allowing the trash and ...

Sabert Holding Corp., a plastics packaging maker, has a new owner as Butterfly Equity builds a packaging portfolio.

California's packaging EPR law includes a $150 million a year voluntary contribution from plastic resin makers to a pollution mitigation fund, but details remain uncertain.

U.S. Farathane plans to invest nearly $22 million in a new 230,000-square-foot logistics center in Port Huron, Mich., adding at least 115 jobs and supporting its existing local manufacturing operation ...

Russia has now taken over a plastic packaging plant owned by Aptar Group Inc., seizing control of the site as part of what some see as an effort to gain leverage regarding its war with Ukraine.

Greenback Recycling Technologies has made the first commercial shipment of pyrolysis oil from its flexible plastics recycling plant in Cuautla, Mexico, three years after the facility opened.