Maureen Steinwall News Today

The Plastics Hall of Fame is reorganizing and wants to make a push for more global inductees. In its 50-year-history, 80 percent of honorees have been from the United States.

Nominations are open for the class of 2024 of the Plastics Hall of Fame.

Kotani a prominent face in Japans robotics industry Photos courtesy of Yushin Precision Equipment Co. Ltd. Mayumi Kotani is part of the 2021 Plastics Hall of Fame class. She is just the fourth woman to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Mayumi Kotani grew up in southern Japan, in Kyoto prefecture, where women and men carried an equal load. In her small fishing village, about 100 meters from the sea, her mother was an active worker, being the head of a local nursery school. Her father was in the...