Plastics News

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Plastics News
Plastics News - May 28, 2007
Editor and associate publisher	Robert Grace
Categories	Plastics
Frequency	Weekly
First issue	1989
Company	Crain Communications Inc.
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	PlasticsNews.com

Plastics News is a weekly, 60,000-circulation trade newspaper delivering global news to a primarily North American market. Founded by Crain Communications Inc. in Akron, Ohio, in 1989, it covers the business of the global plastics industry. Plastics News focuses on commercial, financial, legislative and market-related developments worldwide that affect North American plastic product manufacturers and their suppliers and customers. The publication launched a Web site in 1996.

PN organizes several events, including its annual Executive Forum and Plastics Encounter regional trade shows.

The magazine presents two awards annually. Since 1996, it has given its Processor of the Year Award to a North American plastics processor; the winner is honored in a ceremony each year at the Executive Forum. Since 1998, PN also has honored the work of designers by presenting its IDSA/Plastics News Design Award at the annual conference of the Society of the Plastics Industry Inc.'s Alliance of Plastics Processors. The latter award is co-sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America.

Plastics News China eWeekly launched as a free, weekly e-mail newsletter in May 2005, along with a companion Web site, Plastics News China. Both are offered in English and simplified Chinese. PN sends the eWeekly every Tuesday to about 15,000 subscribers worldwide.

Plastics News is a part of the Plastics News Global Group, which is owned by Detroit-based Crain Communications.