Canadian Plastics Raw Materials Handling

September 18, 2020
New vacuum pump simplifies material conveying to blenders, dryers, machine hoppers

Materials

September 18, 2020
Court orders recalculation of $1.4 billion in damages in lawsuit between Dow and Nova Chemicals

Economy Market Forecast

September 18, 2020
Retail sales rose 0.6% in July, Statistics Canada says

Recycling

September 18, 2020
Montreal’s Loop Industries, Suez to build first “Infinite Loop” recycling facility in Europe

Plastics Processes

September 18, 2020
Medical parts maker Saint-Gobain acquires France-based MS Techniques/Transluminal

September 17, 2020
Thermo Fisher investing $140 million to boost laboratory plastic production for COVID-19 testing

Raw Materials Handling

September 17, 2020
Industry-4.0-compatible mixer can accommodate three sizes of containers

Materials Recycling

September 17, 2020
Ineos Styrolution, Trinseo advance plans for polystyrene recycling plant in France

Packaging Recycling

September 17, 2020
Austrian packaging supplier Alpla Group building HDPE recycling plant in Mexico

Materials

September 16, 2020
Braskem’s $750-million polypropylene plant begins commercial production in Texas

Robots & Automation

September 16, 2020
ATS Automation gets $20 million order for COVID-19 vaccine syringe manufacturing line

Plastics Processes

September 16, 2020
Sumitomo Demag nears completion of relocation to larger parts, service facility in Cleveland

Canadian Plastics Construction

September 14, 2020
Nova Scotia’s RPS Composites acquires assets of FRP and piping maker Fabricated Plastics

Plastics Processes

September 14, 2020
Plastindia trade show postponed from 2021 to 2022

Canadian Plastics Plastics Processes

September 11, 2020
Ontario medical technology maker Smart Safe Science gets provincial funding to make masks

Canadian Plastics Packaging

September 11, 2020
Emmerson Packaging adding jobs and equipment in Ontario, Nova Scotia

Plastics Processes

September 10, 2020
Helmet maker Team Wendy to be acquired by Avon Rubber for $130 million

Moldmaking

September 10, 2020
CAMM golf tournament set for Sept. 27

Robots & Automation

September 10, 2020
ATS Automation announces closures, layoffs in transportation segment

Automotive Canadian Plastics

September 10, 2020
Magna to acquire majority ownership of Chinese seating supplier

Automotive Plastics Processes

September 9, 2020
KraussMaffei delivers 100th injection molding machine to customer Polycom

Materials

September 9, 2020
Solvay taps Vanderbilt Chemicals to distribute Tecnoflon fluoroelastomers in North America

Recycling

September 9, 2020
Plastics Recycling Show Europe postponed until 2021

Economy

September 8, 2020
Ontario announces $37 million for training in advanced manufacturing, other industries

September 8, 2020
Thermo Fisher Scientific opens new site for manufacturing COVID-19 sample collection products

Plastics Processes

September 8, 2020
Wittmann launches “Virtual Fakuma”

Materials Packaging Recycling

September 8, 2020
Coca-Cola to switch to 100 per cent rPET bottles in Norway and the Netherlands

Automotive Market Forecast

September 4, 2020
Canadian auto sales’ rebound “softened modestly” in August, report says

Plastics Processes

September 4, 2020
Engel to hold virtual trade show in October

Automotive

September 3, 2020
General Motors, Honda are partnering for product development in North America

Plastics Processes

September 3, 2020
Construction starts on new KraussMaffei production plant in Laatzen, Germany

Materials

September 3, 2020
Ascend completes purchase of Italian firms Poliblend and Esseti Plast