Kevin Mekaru of RTI Global: "The [PET] bottle market has been off to a slow start for the season, and demand is not ...

A Fayetteville plastic manufacturer will close at the end of July, affecting 180 employees. In a May 30 news release, ...

Ineos listed 82 employees, by title, who will lose jobs. That’s down from 185, the number the company said it employed last ...

Materials maker Alpek SAB de CV is closing a plant that makes PET resin and recycled PET flake in Fayetteville, N.C. The ...

Now, they have created a glue from plant-derived ingredients. It is a two-solution mixing type epoxy resin glue with a plant biomass content of 30-50%. They are aiming to further increase the ...

Most widely used adhesives are toxic and derived from petroleum, but researchers have come up with a safe, recyclable ...

You can easily take Stewart’s decorating advice by checking out your local garden center for plants and planters — and ...

Alpek will shutter its Fayetteville, North Carolina plant by July 31. The site, acquired by Alpek in 2001, has an installed capacity of 170,000 tons of PET resin and approximately 35,000 tons of rPET ...

The Kearney plant will be its U.S. subsidiary and initial ... there already is a letter of intent to buy in hand — to resin compounders. They custom mix powdered components and turn them into ...