Plastic is a miracle material, shaped and folded into our lives in everything from cigarette filters to medical tubing to car bumpers. It’s in the toys we give our children; it keeps our food fresh ...

Humans buy 1 million plastic bottles every minute. Every. Minute. That equates to 1.3 billion bottles per day, 40 billion bottles per month, 480 billion bottles per year, and 4 trillion bottles over ...

Berry Plastics Group Inc. is pushing deeper into one business and retreating from another. The Evansville, Ind.-based company is no stranger to the merger and acquisition market, having made dozens of ...

Two new laser-markable acetal copolymers have been developed by Ticona to match selected colors in both etched marks and background. When etched with prescribed laser settings, custom-pigmented acetal ...

When China stopped importing waste two years ago, it may have inadvertently done the world a favor. China accepted two-thirds of global plastic waste as recently as 2016. So Beijing’s decision to halt ...