Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Tokyo) plans to acquire a polyvinyl chloride compound plant in Bellevue, OH from A. Schulman, Inc. (Akron, OH) in a move to expand the presence of its North American ...

Lead's time in medical devices is quickly running out and opportunistic plastics suppliers are jumping into the void being left by out-of-favor toxic metal to offer polymer compounds that offer ...

Mount Vernon, Ill. — Manner Polymers has opened a $54 million, 100 percent solar-powered PVC compounding plant in Mount Vernon, expanding its annual production capacity by 100 million pounds and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some 13,000 chemicals are associated with plastic production, of which only 7,000 or so have been investigated for their health ...