Robert Schad, the founder of Husky Technologies and a member of the Plastics Hall Of Fame, died July 11 in Toronto. He was 95. Schad's personal beliefs on responsibility guided how he ran Husky. Sustainable operations, orderly and clean shops and employee health were priorities.
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Plastics News is a weekly, 46,000-circulation trade newspaper delivering global news to a primarily North American market. Founded by Crain Communications Inc. in Akron, Ohio, in 1989, it covers the business of the global plastics industry. Plastics News focuses on commercial, financial, legislative and market-related developments worldwide that affect North American plastic product manufacturers and their suppliers and customers. The publication launched its PlasticsNews.com website in 1996, and today that audited site attracts more than 100,000 unique visitors per month. The company launched its bilingual Plastics News China newsletter in May 2005, along with a companion Plastics News China website. PN also organizes several events, including its annual Executive Forum, Caps and Closures, and various other conferences.
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Rapper-turned-recycled-trash-artist Thomas Dambo wants his 40-foot sculptures of trolls and other creatures to whimsically get us thinking, in his words, about how we keep from "drowning in trash."
Kickstart: A giant plastic rabbit and a reuse message
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Osaka, Japan-based Nipro Medical Corp. is investing $398 million to establish a new manufacturing facility in Greenville, N.C., to meet demand from the North American pharmaceutical and dialysis markets.
Japan's Nipro Medical invests $398 million to establish N.C. medical device manufacturing facility
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Bill Wood: The stock market was indeed beginning to look a bit irrational as we started the second half of 2024, but history has taught me the stock market tends to correct itself regardless of my opinion. Nevertheless, there are some other trends or risks in the overall economy that have me concerned at the present time because they do not appear to be self-correcting.
Numbers That Matter: Housing market still under stress, constraining growth for plastics
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The transaction adds 19 manufacturing locations and 4,000 employees.
Silgan adds to dispensers and closures business with Weener deal
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Poor housing start data and high federal budget deficits are two of the data sets that have PN Economics Editor Bill Wood concerned about the outlook for the rest of 2024.
Numbers That Matter Live July 2024: Bad signs in the economic data
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