GLG News by Rigid Plastic Packaging Experts

Ethanol in the U.S. will be costly.Ethanol producers will get squeezed.U.S. consumers will feel the pich of ethanol across many products.

U.S. Chemical Distribution has now reached the "Nationals"Which Chemical Distributor is next to be acquired or divested?U.S. Chemical Distribution market still over supplied.

•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? 

Players in the polycarbonate chain must pick their niche versus attempting to maximize the entire phenol to polycarbonate chain. The short-term outlook for polycarbonate plastics looks strong.GE Plastics operates in the polycarbonate space.

The previous strategy of going after Target is hindering the new strategy of going back to basics.  Sure weather and gas prices affect this retailer but if you look at Target's results they are much better. 

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...

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?