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News Round Up 10/24/2016

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Radici Group celebrates 75 years

BASF confirms 3rd death from fire at German plant

Weekly resin report: Spot PE prices could start to slip

Celanese purchases SO.F.TER

Solvay plans facility in Mexico

Material prices higher the year

Here’s What Happened Last Week

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US PET recycling rate dips

Albis launches new TPV that bonds to nylon

BASF enters long glass nylon market

PE overcapacity could become a problem

UBE expanding nylon production in Spain

Weekly Resin Report-there might be another PP price increase coming

Techmer PM to expand in Mexico

Here is What Happened Last Week

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KraussMaffei develops new polyamide reaction process

Dow announces start-up of Sadara mixed feed cracker

Ravago buys recycler and compounder Industrial Resin Recycling

Polyplastics buys Teijin share of Win Tech PET, PBT joint venture

Sonoco sells its blow molding operations to Amcor

Albis to open a compounding plant in US

Double digit PP price increases in the offing?

Nantucket Island to ban all plastics packaging

Demand for recycled polypropylene robust

Have a Great Labor Day Weekend!

Integrated Assembly Line 1913 — 1913: At the Highland Park Plant in 1913, Henry Ford introduced the first moving assembly line for cars. Within 18 months it took only 1.5 man-hours to build a Model T. The modern auto industry was born.

A Little Piece of Plastics Industry History

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Back in the pre-internet days, this is the book that we all used to look up materials and find property data sheets. The Plastics Materials Digest: International Plastics Selector.

I have been looking for one of these old books on Ebay for a couple of years now and I finally came across this near perfect copy dated 1988 which happens to be my first year in the industry.

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