Don Loepp News Today

There's fake, and then there's the fake claim that a toy giant was eliminating plastics within seven years. (It was very much not true.)

The concept of NIMBY (not in my back yard) seems to be at play in some upcoming manufacturing projects; Office furniture ends up in landfills due to COVID oversupply; Expect tense negotiations in the auto industry.

Taking a look at how Plastics News covers bio-based plastics and a fire at a recycling storage plant.

Karen Laird says the plastics industry is facing a “paradigm shift” to change from conventional fossil fuel feedstocks to bio-based alternatives.

As Tom Thompson, president of Processor of the year Teel Plastics notes in a video, workers are key to pushing new ideas forward.

Our first issue back from our 25th Executive Forum is jam-packed. First off, of course, we'd like to congratulate the 2022 Plastics News Processor of the Year, Teel Plastics. Read Editor Don Loepp's in-depth story about their post-pandemic successes and what helped them clinch the…

When it comes to plastics M&A, will 2023 be a buyers’ market or a sellers’ market? Senior Reporter Frank Esposito and Editor Don Loepp recap 2022 in our Feb. 1 Plastics News Live, and discuss the multiples that plastics companies are seeing. Mergers and acquisitions activity in plastics was…

Join us on February 7 at 10:00 AM EST/ 4:00 PM CET for a Sustainable Plastics Livestream sponsored by Trinseo! In our February Sustainable Plastics Live, Karen Laird and Don Loepp will discuss new bans on some single-use plastic products; ways that plastics companies in emerging markets are achieving sustainability; and the latest in biobased additives.     

Today's leaders likely won't be around to see if Europe becomes carbon neutral by 2050, but they're still working to try and make it happen.

Join us December 6th at 10AM ET/ 3PM CET for a Sustainable Plastics Livestream!     Sign up for the live program with Sustainable Plastics Editor Karen Laird and Plastics News Editor Don Loepp.