A literature review of studies that have unsuccessfully attempted to show fracking is negatively impacting health is getting some media attention based on its claim that air quality monitoring and modeling may not capture the full picture of oil and gas development impacts. And despite the authors’ best efforts to show otherwise, this compendium simply
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/11/2019 Email Print Decatur Plastic Products Inc. is investing $11.4 million over the next five years in a two-phase expansion that will double its footprint in North Vernon, Ind., and create up to 70 new jobs by 2023. The custom injection molder said April 11 that it has entered into a
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/11/2019 Email Print NCI Building Systems, Inc. and Ply Gem Parent LLC, which merged last year to became the largest manufacturer of exterior building products in North America, will soon operate as Cornerstone Building Brands. The new company name was announced April 11 with plans to trade on the New York
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/11/2019 Email Print Steinwall Inc. Steinwall, a custom injection molder, purchased the 145,500-square-foot warehouse for $8.3 million. Custom injection molder Steinwall Inc. has doubled its warehouse capacity with the $8.3 million purchase of a 145,500-square-foot building in Coon Rapids, Minn. The new warehouse, about a mile from its main production facility
Read More...Kelsey MulacCabot Oil & GasExternal Affairs, Pittsburgh … … When it comes to workforce development, no one has done more than the natural gas industry. Cabot Oil & Gas offers a great example of how much has be done. In Pennsylvania, where Cabot’s operations are located, the oil and gas industry accounts for more than
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/11/2019 Email Print Unilever Unilver has developed a reusable bottle for its Seventh Generation brand as part of its involvement in the Loop program to support a circular economy. One of the largest consumer packaged goods companies in the world is pledging that its plastic packaging in North America will contain
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/11/2019 Email Print Brightmark Energy LLC now has financing in place for a commercial scale plastics-to-fuel plant in Indiana. The San Francisco-based company has closed on $260 million in financing, including $185 million in Indiana green bonds, to construct the facility in Ashley, Ind. Brightmark is the controlling shareholder of RES
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/11/2019 Email Print James L. Villa Inc. James L. Villa Inc. calls itself the “party platter people” and supplies grocery story chains with packaging for deli, seafood, bakery and other items. Graham Partners is once again expanding its thermoforming business with yet another acquisition. This time, the private investment firm is
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/12/2019 Email Print Plastics News Europe Kestutis Sadauskas speaks at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe. Amsterdam — A leader of the European Commission is giving his support to efforts made by the plastics industry to increase recycling. At the Plastics Recycling Show Europe 2019 in Amsterdam, European Commissioner Kestutis Sadauskas gave
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. President Trump visited Houston, Texas yesterday to sign a pair of Executive Orders to help spur more energy infrastructure development across the country. In particular, the orders were aimed at clearing away
Read More...This article is provided FREE for Google searchers. In order to access all content on Marcellus Drilling News, please visit our Subscribe page. An overlooked aspect of yesterday’s Executive Order signed by President Trump will have an impact on natural gas by altering the way it’s transported. In addition to directing the federal EPA to
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/11/2019 Email Print Kurt NaglCrain’s Detroit Business Automate Organizers of Automate, the largest North American automation show, announced the event will move to Detroit in 2021. A large robotics trade show is leaving Chicago after nearly a decade to return to Detroit. Automate, dubbed by organizers as the largest automation show
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/11/2019 Email Print March held different narratives for North American commodity resins, with polystyrene and PET bottle resin prices each moving up, while prices for polypropylene declined. The biggest change was in polypropylene, where prices slid an average of 3 cents per pound. That marks the fifth consecutive monthly price drop
Read More...April 11, 2019 Updated 4/11/2019 Email Print Jim Johnson Lopinsky National Harbor, Md. — A trade group representing plastics recyclers is re-emphasizing its non-profit foundation as the group looks to continue to increase influence. The Association of Plastic Recyclers established the non-profit Foundation for Plastic Recycling about five years ago. APR President Steve Alexander originally
Read More...Supporters of American energy hope the executive orders that President Trump signed directing the Environmental Protection Agency to revise certain policies will prevent abuse by states like New York who have used the environmental review process to unnecessarily block pipeline projects at the request of Keep-It-In-the-Ground activists. In a speech prior to signing the orders
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