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• Production issues could impact polyethylene prices | Plastics News

  Polyethylene prices have been flat despite the slumping economy, but there could be pressure on the market from some significant production issues. In the May Polymer Points Live, Frank Esposito talks...

• Avient installs first line in Asia for long-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics | Plastics News

  The new line was installed at Avient's Asia regional headquarters in Shanghai. It will meet increased demand for the firm's Complet-brand and OnForce-brand composite materials.

• Aliaxis quadruples stake in Uponor despite rejection by pipe maker | Plastics News

  Aliaxis, the owner of pipe maker Ipex USA LLC, now owns 20 percent of Finland-based Uponor's shares — up from 5 percent — and its acquisition attempt has attracted other deal makers.

• Jeremiah Foster, Core Technology Molding Corp. | Rising Stars 2023 | Plastics News

  Foster works in business development for Core and is a co-facilitator for its nonprofit organization, Molding Kids for Success, which works with local schools to give students access to STEM learning.

• Nathan Rader-Edkin, Pennsylvania College of Technology | Rising Stars 2023 | Plastics News

  Rader-Edkin became a senior molding engineer in Franklin Lakes, N.J., in June 2021, then moved back to PCT to be named program manager for the Plastics Innovation and Resource Center in April 2022.

• Jason Merkle, Chase Plastic Services Inc. | Rising Stars 2023 | Plastics News

  After graduation, Merkle joined Clarkston, Mich.-based resin distributor Chase as an applications development engineer, relocated to the Philadelphia area for field support to the East Coast, then mov...