Despite a drop in global energy demand due to COVID-19, natural gas emerged from the pandemic in a position of strength, according to BP’s recently released 2021 Statistical Review. As the report explains, global primary energy demand fell by 4.5 percent in 2020 – the largest decline since World War II. Yet, natural gas performed
Read More...Our nation’s water system is failing. And unless the plastics industry takes an active role in supporting full federal funding for our nation’s crumbling infrastructure, we will miss a historic moment to innovate and modernize America’s water systems. Our advocacy to Congress can bring safe, reliable and affordable water service to millions of Americans for
Read More...Primex Design and Fabrication, a subsidiary of Richmond, Ind.-based sheet extruder Primex Plasics Corp., is investing a total of $1.3 million in a new digital printer project including training for staff to expand its product line. Primex will use the new equipment “to enhance products we were previously manufacturing such as point of purchase displays,
Read More...Our sister paper Automotive News has a daily podcast checking in with leaders from throughout the supply chain, which means you get a lot of different takes on what’s happening in the car world. The July 15 edition also touches on plastics as Patrick Clark, the global manufacturing chief for Novi, Mich.-based Cooper Standard Automotive
Read More...AmericanEnergy Alliance …. …. [Editor’s Note: The Joe Biden puppeteers and Chinese controllers are clearly aiming to undo American energy independence and, once again, make us dependent on foreign energy.] Last week OPEC+ talks on oil production quotas for member nations stalled and, as a result, oil prices rose. The Biden administration is somewhat concerned
Read More...Five different companies throughout the packaging supply chain have joined forces to create what they say is new, more sustainable flexible packaging for food. The companies — Dow, Syntegon, Comexi, Plastchim-T and Ticinoplast — say the high-barrier mono-material structured polyethylene pouch is not only functional, but designed to enable recyclability in PE-streams. Conventional multi-layer flexible pouches are unable to
Read More...federal land Paul DriessenCFACT …. …. [Editor’s Note: Biden wants to “preserve 30% of our land” with a Federal land grab while covering America with land gobbling, inefficient and intermittent green energy “farms.”] Via yet another decree (Executive Order 14008), President Biden has instructed government agencies to “permanently protect” at least 30% of all U.S.
Read More...Equitrans may have to clear more regulatory hurdles to obtain a key water crossing permit to complete the Mountain Valley Pipeline project, according to Pittsburgh Business Times. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recommended to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that plans for the project may not be sufficient to comply with the Clean
Read More...tree stumps Ron SteinFounder, PTS Advance … … [Editor’s Note: Tree stumps revealed by melting glaciers point out an obvious truth; the world was a lot warmer once and climate is continually changing and never the same.] Ancient tree stumps found under glaciers in Southeast Iceland are confirmed to be roughly 3,000 years old, RUV reports.
Read More...Xaloy Holdings LLC is moving its twin-barrel manufacturing operation from Austintown, Ohio, to Pulaski, Va., with plans to rehire former employees, invest $1.75 million and ramp up as soon as possible. Most operations in Pulaski had been relocated to Austintown in 2016 by the former owner, Westlake, Ohio-based Nordson Corp. The 100,000-square-foot plant that sits
Read More...Chesapeake Energy recently announced plans to partner with MiQ and Equitable Origin to seek responsibly sourced certification for its Lower 48 natural gas production, according to Natural Gas Intelligence. The company said it would be “the first company to independently certify and continuously monitor its natural gas production across two major shale gas basins” via
Read More...“Keep It In The Ground” group Colorado Rising, after failing with its anti-fracking ballot measure in 2018, is trying out a new anti-energy campaign – this time it’s going after Colorado’s appliances. Colorado Rising teamed up with Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) – a national activist group that has a long history of opposing domestic
Read More...DRBC lawsuit Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. The dismissal of the DRBC lawsuit against that rogue politicized agency by Senators Baker and Yaw and others has been appealed to the Third Circuit for justice. Pennsylvania State Senators Lisa Baker, Gene Yaw, the rest of the Pennsylvania Senate Republican Caucus, together with Damascus Township,
Read More...Three years ago, when the City and County of Boulder and the County of San Miguel introduced its climate lawsuit, the municipalities’ elected leaders made it unmistakably clear that their case was solely about seeking damages to pay for the costs associated with climate change. As it turns out, that’s not exactly true. During a
Read More...electricity electric vehicles … …[Editor’s Note: China is expected to have more refining capacity than the United States this year, while Biden pushes a zero-carbon future.] As of April, 2021, the United States had 18.1 million barrels per day of petroleum refining capacity (i.e., operable atmospheric crude oil distillation capacity). U.S. refining capacity had reached a record high of
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