Plastic is a miracle material, shaped and folded into our lives in everything from cigarette filters to medical tubing to car bumpers. It’s in the toys we give our children; it keeps our food fresh ...

Humans buy 1 million plastic bottles every minute. Every. Minute. That equates to 1.3 billion bottles per day, 40 billion bottles per month, 480 billion bottles per year, and 4 trillion bottles over ...

Berry Plastics Group Inc. is pushing deeper into one business and retreating from another. The Evansville, Ind.-based company is no stranger to the merger and acquisition market, having made dozens of ...

Microscopic pieces of plastic have been discovered in the most remote locations, from the depths of the ocean to Arctic ice. But these microplastics are also entering our bodies, from the ...

Two new laser-markable acetal copolymers have been developed by Ticona to match selected colors in both etched marks and background. When etched with prescribed laser settings, custom-pigmented acetal ...