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Graham Packaging to close 2 plants
USA-Graham Packaging Company, L.P., will close two plants - one in Lakeland, Florida, and the other in Montgomery, Alabama - as customer volume has shifted to other locations. Approximately 20 jobs will be affected.The company's McCue Road container plant in Lakeland is scheduled to ...
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Carbonated soft drinks segment continues to struggle, BEVERAGE MARKETING CORPORATION study shows
The U.S. carbonated soft drink market's long struggle to achieve growth persists. After six straight years of sub–1% growth, volume declined for the third straight year in 2007. Prior to 2005, the market had not declined in at least 20 years. U.S. carbonated soft drink volume has not ...
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new Biodegradable Plastic study
Demand for biodegradable plastic in the US is projected to rise more than 15 percent annually to 720 million pounds in 2012, valued at $845 million. Although representing less than one-half of one percent of all thermoplastic resin demand in 2007, biodegradable plastic will have ...
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New study: Shipping of plastic bottles to China produces less CO2 than sending them to UK landfill
A new WRAP study released today, 19th August 2008 has found that selling the UK’s used plastic bottles and paper for recycling in China actually saves carbon emissions. Shipping these materials more than 10,000 miles produces less CO2 than sending them to landfill at home and using ...
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new Plastic Containers study
US demand for plastic containers will advance 5.4 percent annually through 2012 to nearly $32 billion, creating demand for 15.7 billion pounds of resin. Gains will be bolstered by plastic’s many benefits relative to other packaging media, including light weight, shatter resistance, ...
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European PET bottle collection increases by nearly 20%
Petcore announced today that European post-sorting PET collection reached 1.13m tonnes in 2007, an increase of about 20% on 2006.In 2007 just about 40% of all PET bottles in the market were collected for recycle.The overall share of fibres as an end use for recycled PET decreased ...
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Rexam closes manufacturing plant in US, further aligning plastic packaging operations
Rexam, a global leader in consumer packaging, today announced the closure of the Bowling Green, Ohio, plastic packaging manufacturing plant. The closure further aligns the company's manufacturing capabilities, improves overall asset utilization and helps balance industry capacity and ...
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PolyOne announces formation of PolyOne Polymers India Pvt. Ltd.
PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, announced today that it has formed PolyOne Polymers India Pvt. Ltd. to import, manufacture and sell PolyOne products in India and neighboring markets.The Company’s new ...
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Rosti adds India to Asian site map
The new subsidiary, Rosti Technical Plastics India PVT Limited, has already signed a three-year lease on a purpose-built, 28,000 sq ft facility in the Poonamalee District of Chennai.In a similar move to the Company’s start-up in China, the decision to invest in India was prompted by ...
