Orchids Paper Products Company (NYSE MKT: TIS) (the “Company”) announced today that it was recently named to the Forbes 2012 list of the “100 Best Small Companies in America.” The Company ranks No. 70 in its first appearance on the list.
Business techniques and trends and government rules and regulations in relation to food packaging materials were hot topics of conversation during the Pack Expo seminar on “Chemical Migration & Migration Approaches,” held October 30 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
Metso has been commended in CDP’s Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index. CDP is a not-for-profit organization and they analyze companies’ disclosure of climate change information. The Index is a part of CDP’s annual Nordic 260 Climate Change Report which was released in Stockholm on October 16. Metso has been participating in the Carbon Disclosure project for several years and this year Metso received a score of 97/100, which for the first time raised Metso in the Nordic Carbon Disclosure Leadeship Index. The score was the highest among Nordic companies in the Industrials sector
At FAKUMA 2012, WACKER, the Munich-based chemical group, will showcase novel silicone-rubber grades for manufacturing pacifiers and bottle nipples for infants and toddlers. The new grades round out WACKER’s ELASTOSIL LR 3040 liquid-rubber product line and its ELASTOSIL R plus 4020 solid-rubber line. One outstanding feature of the cured rubber is tear resistance, which is especially strong in the solid-rubber grades. FAKUMA takes place in Friedrichshafen (Germany) from October 16 to 20.
Focus on Baxxodur epoxy resin systems for composite materials
Adjusted EBITDA of $91 million
Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE:EMN) today announced that the company ranked fourth out of 34 U.S. companies in the materials sector in Newsweek’s 2012 Green Rankings. Eastman had an overall rank of 204 out of the 500 largest publicly traded U.S. companies, an improvement of 152 places from its 2011 ranking.
