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Part of the challenge of assessing 2023 was also true in 2022 — comparisons to massive demand growth in 2021 that occurred as market recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Greg Boston is now sole owner of resin distributor General Polymers Thermoplastic Materials LLC.

Hunt for resin continues, even as supplies improve Chase Plastic Services Inc. North American resin availability is improving in the wake of recent outages, but many companies throughout the supply chain still cant get all the material they need. In the wake of Winter Storm Uri, which hit Texas and the Gulf Coast in mid-February, many material suppliers put customers on force majeure sales limits or other types of allocation. LyondellBasell Industries of Houston operates multiples sites making...

Best Places to Work list announced for 2021 Sixteen companies have been named to the Plastics News Best Places to Work list for 2021. The winner will be announced March 17 at the virtual PN Executive Forum event. The eighth annual survey and awards program has split the companies into two categories: processors and suppliers. "This enables us to recognize more firms. It is a result of our Best Places to Work in Plastics becoming a major annual award in the North American plastics industry," s...

2021 Rising Stars: Tom Pignatello Polypropylene Product Manager, Osterman & Co. As polypropylene product manager for Cheshire, Conn.-based resin distributor Osterman & Co. during the coronavirus pandemic, Tom Pignatello has had to adapt to a new way of doing business, much like the rest of the world. "I essentially went from an outside sales representative to an inside sales representative overnight," he said. "Despite the pandemic, working from home and no longer traveling to see customers for...

Shana Jackson, 34 Logistics Manager, Osterman & Co. Shana Jackson started working at Cheshire, Conn.-based resin distributor Osterman & Co. in June 2014 as a customer service representative, where she said she learned the "basics of plastics as well as the integral parts of the day to…