Plastics News
Plastics News, a weekly newspaper founded in Akron, Ohio, in 1989 by Crain Communications Inc., covers the business of the global plastics industry. It focuses on commercial, financial, legislative and market-related developments worldwide that affect North American plastic product manufacturers and their suppliers and customers. The publication's mission is to report completely, promptly, fairly and accurately, and to provide plastics industry officials with the market information and competitive intelligence they need to do their jobs more effectively. With more than 60,000 print subscribers, Plastics News has the largest readership by far in North America's plastics industry.

PlasticsNews.com & related e-mail products
This Web site, launched in 1996, is a global channel for daily - and sometimes hourly - news updates. Various free e-mail alert services provide regular headlines and summaries to interested readers.

Plastics News events
Plastics News organizes several events, including its annual Executive Forum and its Plastics Encounter regional trade shows and conferences. These serve as forums for the presentation of new products and ideas and for independent discussion of issues of concern to the industry.

Plastics News-sponsored awards
Plastics News presents two awards annually - its Processor of the Year Award, delivered to a worthy North American plastics processor in a ceremony at the Executive Forum, and the IDSA/Plastics News Design Award, given out each spring at the SPI Structural Plastics Division Conference. The latter award is co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America.

Crain Communications Inc.
Our Detroit-based parent company, founded in 1916, is one of North America's largest family-owned business publishing companies, with 30 titles, two radio stations and more than 1,000 employees. Click here for an overview of the company's publications, which include Advertising Age and Automotive News, as well as city business newspapers in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and New York.

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