GLG News by Plastic Film Experts

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.    

SPX`s acquisition of APV is a fine example of a strategic power play to gain market share from formable giants the likes of Tetra-Laval and GEA.  Timely executed the strategy takes advantage of a recognized need for higher heat exchanger efficiencies and an increase of installed base. ...

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...

While ICI remains a very good option for Akzo, they do have other acquisition options for growing their coatings business and maintaining their global market share lead.  These options include Sherwin Williams, PPG, Valspar and DuPont Performance Coatings (carve-out). Each of these target brings...

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 remaining plastics assets at Owens-Illinois have been high profit businesses. •The company is looking to extract a premium – the successful buyer must insure that they acquire and retain all of the key assets and have a strategy to grow a plastic packaging business from the expensive...

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? 

GE, the industry leader in engineered plastics is set to divest one of its highest profile businesses, a business in which Jack Welch earned his stripes early in his career.  The reasons that GE has publicly given for the divestiture do fully portray the complete picture of how the...