GLG News by Council Members Knowledgeable on Bi-axially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) Films

Need to be - cost effective - short runs - quick turnaround

At first glance, it would seem that a company already in the plastic container business would have a fairly simple time entering another segment of that business.  In some cases, this is not true.    

- Big packaging player moving into specilised healthcare business shows the importance of the specilised business and the opportunities.

Cultures have almost always wanted to maintain their worlds pretty much without change.  As the old saying goes, everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.  In fact, they don't want to.

 Every industry seems to have a cadre of uniquely skilled professionals.  While the skill they have may be tangentially like those in other industries, the "tricks of the trade" acquired by longer term employees often is the difference between an efficiently run, profitable and above all safe...

In a nearly frantic effort to find something to burn in American internal combustion engines that can't be shut off my some guy with an AK47, scientists are trying to liquify anything that will burn.Can this be morally justified?  This less-than-serious analysis takes a look as some unforeseen...

The United States can't live without its automobile industry. The industry can't survive with it's pension obligations.  So who pays - the workers, the government (aka, you and me) or.......?

Failure to approve the Kyoto Treaty earned the United States an international black eye. When China surpasses the United States in emissions, will they get the same treatment? 

High US corn and other seed demand and consequent price rises should increase planting in USA and Europe.High demand for bio-fuel may reduce materials available and raise prices for bio-plastics, which may temporarily slow down their uptake.

Everyone agrees that "green" based plastics are a winner - reduced pressure on petrochemicals, new markets for American farmers and biodegradable plastics.But who really wants them?  Who will use them? And how much of a change will they really make?