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Dale Goldhawk signs on for Plast-Ex Summit
TV journalist and consumer advocate Dale Goldhawk has agreed to be Master of Ceremonies at the Plast-Ex Summit on May 22. Goldhawk, whose investigative reports have been featured on CBC Radio and CTV, will direct panel discussions as well as lead questioning of speakers.
He broadcasts to the Greater Toronto Area on Rogers Television and to southern Ontario on CFRB Radio. As Ombudsman on CTV's National News, Goldhawk broadened his audience and made a name for himself as an advocate for the public interest with his program Goldhawk Fights Back. Today this program is broadcast on CFRB Radio.
Canada's Governor General awarded him the Queen's Jubilee Medal in 2002, in recognition of his charity work and marking Queen Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee. He also recently won a National Leadership Award from the Ontario History And Social Sciences Teachers' Association.
The event is being held at the Rogers Center (formerly the Skydome) in Toronto, and includes a Blue Jays baseball game, lunch and dinner, plus a networking reception.
www.plastexsummit.ca
Recycler buys CPRA assets
Polyframe Moulding Inc. (Port Hope, Ont.) is buying the assets of the Canadian Polystyrene Recycling Association. CPRA closed its Mississauga, Ont., PS recycling plant in December because of the high Canadian dollar and also because of difficulties in getting sufficient supply of waste material, but Sam Alavy, president of Polyframe, hopes to salvage the operation.
He is currently negotiating a new lease with the landlord, and hopes to keep the CPRA plant in place. If that doesn't work out, he plans to move the equipment to Port Hope. He expects to start accepting post-industrial and post-consumer PS scrap this week.
Polyframe Moulding extrudes post-industrial PS scrap to make picture frames and other products. Its capacity, around 60,000 lb per day, is close to that of the CPRA plant.
The CPRA operation, opened in 1991, was owned by resin producers, product manufacturers, distributors and end-users. Since the opening, they had invested $7-million in equipment, including refurbishing after a fire in 2006.
www.polyframe.ca
Paul Clark receives Purvis Award
Paul Clark has been awarded the Purvis Memorial Award by the Society of Chemical Industry. The award was made last week at a gala dinner in Toronto's Sheraton Centre. Clark recently retired as vice-president of research and technology for NOVA Chemicals Corp, He was also president of NOVA Research and Technology Corp, and led NOVA Chemicals R&D for the olefins and polyolefins businesses during the development of proprietary single site catalysts for polyethylene as well as the Advanced Sclairtech process. Both technologies have been commercialised in world scale manufacturing plants in Joffre, Alberta.
In presenting the award, Canadian Plastics Industry Association president Serge Lavoie remarked, "Paul is a man with a passion for plastics. He communicates it when you talk to him, and it's always educational when you do."
Clark is a featured speaker at the Plast-Ex Summit on May 22.
www.soci.org
Paul Clark (centre) receives his award from CPIA president Serge Lavoie (right), while MC David Beckman of Zeton Inc. looks on.
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Changes
Sigma Industries Inc. (Quebec City) has created a wholly-owned US subsidiary called Sigma US Industries Inc. The company has roughly 70 percent of its sales in the US.
In addition, it is acquiring Pickens Plastics (Jefferson, Ohio). Pickens, with plants in Jefferson and Ashtabula, Ohio, makes moulded fibreglass reinforced products for transportation, heavy equipment, chemical, electrical and appliance industries. It has annual sales of about $7.5-million.
www.sigmaventures.ca
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan), which owns the Panasonic product line, has announced that together with Kusatsu Electric Co., Ltd., it has developed a recycling technology that can decompose plastics and recycle useful metals used in electronic equipment, without producing hazardous gases. Using titanium oxide as a catalyst, the technology permits recovery of inorganic substances such as metals by transforming organic substances such as plastics into harmless gases. As the catalytic reaction of titanium oxide generates heat to promote gasification, an additional heating source is not required in the process. Hydrogen chloride produced during the gasification process of vinyl chloride is neutralized with lime.
www.panasonic.co.jp
Reliable Toy Corp. (Toronto) is selling off its toy-making plastics machinery. The company, active since the 1920s, used blow moulding and injection moulding. Its equipment will be auctioned on April 16, along with that from a sister company, Viceroy Rubber and Plastics Ltd. However, Viceroy will continue to make hockey pucks and molded-rubber vibration pads.
www.viceroyrubber.com
Flex Essentials Inc. (Caledon East, Ont.) recently shipped and installed four of its Flexstor flexographic sleeve storage systems to customers in Vancouver, Buffalo, NY, Kansas City, Kan., and the Netherlands. The company has also developed Flexstand, which allows customers that are starting with only a few sleeves to use the same racks that are normally used in Flexstor, and simply bolt them to the floor. Once the sleeve inventory increases, these same racks, with the addition of wheels and the overhead rail system, can be converted to a full Flexstor system.
www.flexessentials.ca
A Flexstor system from Flex Essentials.
Chemtura Corp. has acquired all the stock of polyurethanes supplier Baxenden Chemicals Ltd. that was owned by Croda International Plc. The all-cash transaction, of 13-million UK pounds, increases its ownership to 100 percent from the previously held 53.5 percent.
Baxenden has 212 employees and had 2007 revenues of approximately $70-million.
www.chemtura.com
Fluoropolymers producer Dyneon LLC (Oakdale, Minn.) has bought Hitech Polymers Inc., a specialty compounder based in Hebron, Ky. Hitech operates eight extrusion lines at a 60,000 sq ft plant in the Cincinnati area. The firm employs about 15 and has annual capacity of around 40-million lb.
www.3M.com
Kleerdex Company, LLC (Bloomsberg, Pa.), the manufacturer of Kydex thermoplastic sheet, has named Eric Vitunac director of manufacturing. In addition to work with the Alcoa Companies over the past 12 years, Vitunac's prior experience includes implementing productivity improvement, quality systems and cultural transformation within the manufacturing environment for companies such as Hughes Aircraft, Georgia Pacific and Alcan Aluminum.
www.kydex.com
John Prikkel has purchased a 51 per cent interest in Fusion Graphics, Inc. (Englewood, Ohio), a company that markets in-mould labeling technology for security and anti-counterfeiting. The entire Fusion Graphics team will be retained and relocated to the Englewood facilities of Liteflex LLC, another of Prikkel's businesses.
www.fusiongraphics-inc.com
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Coming Events
2008
March 19: Ontario region of the Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) breakfast seminar, on the economic health of the plastics industry. At the Toronto Airport Marriott Hotel (Contact Desiree Johnston at 905-678-7748 or djohnston@cpia.ca).
March 20: Society of Plastics Engineers, Ontario section, annual University Night. At McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. (Contact: Leonardo Simon at 519-888-4567 or lsimon@uwaterloo.ca).
April 6-9: The International Card Manufacturers Association (ICMA) Annual Expo will be held at the Loews Royal Pacific Resort in Orlando, Fla. (Contact: Stacy Flint at 609-799-4900, ext. 62, or SFlint@icma.com).
April 8-11: Plastimagen 2008, Mexico's premier plastics show, at Centro Banamex, Mexico City (Contact: Guadalupe Olvera Arellano at 52-55-1087-1650 or golvera@ejkrause.com).
April 10: Basics of Plastics, an introduction to the elements of the plastics industry. At the Rogers campus in Brampton, Ont. (Contact: Edward Mason at 416-764-1514 or edward.mason@plastics.rogers.com)
May 12-13: Tenth International Conference on Progress in Biofibre Plastic Composites. At the Toronto Airport Renaissance Hotel. (Contact: Guida Williamson at 519-249-0545 or www.biocomposites-toronto.com)
May 22: The Plast-Ex Summit 2008 is a look at the urgent issues facing the plastics industry in Canada. Co-sponsored by Plastics in Canada magazine and the Canadian Plastics Industry Association. At the Rogers Center, Toronto. (Contact: Nick Passingham at 416-764-1527 or nick.passingham@plastics.rogers.com).
May 22: Plastic Film Manufacturers Association of Canada, 27th annual golf tournament. At Richmond Hill Gold Club. (Contact: Marilyne Berman, 905-678-7748 or mberman@cpia.ca).
May 26 - 29: Aseanplas 2008 incorporating Aseanrubber 2008, Southeast Asia's main international trade fair for plastics and rubber. At Singapore Expo. (Contact: Messe Düsseldorf North America at 312-781-5180 or info@mdna.com).
September 30-October 2: Interplas 2008, Britain's national plastics show, at the Birmingham NEC, UK. (Contact: Graham Earl at 020 8910 7890 or graham.earl@reedexpo.co.uk).
October 22-23: Rotoplas '08, the international rotational moulding event, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, Ill. (Contact: Maria at 630-578-3266 x225, or mariap@cmservnet.com)
October 20-21: Expoplast 2008, Quebec's triennial plastics show, at the Palais de Congres in Montreal. (Contact: Tom Sockett at 905-678-7748 or tsockett@cpia.ca)
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