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2022 Heroes of Chemistry Award featuring Steve Chum

Attached in the following is a link to a video produced by the American Chemical Society and posted publicly in U-Tube, highlighting the 2022 Heroes of Chemistry Award to Steve Chum and his team’s invention of two breakthrough enhanced PE product families. The video also showed some details on how.

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Sal and Erika Monte Champions for Change

Hall of Fame member, Sal Monte, and Erika Monte of Kenrich Petrochemical, Inc. were featured in the SPE Plastics Engineering July/August 2022 journal. The article by Pat Toensmeier presents the Monte's journey from 1973 to current day as they develop and promote their life mission to teach people how to.

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Georg Menges Prize 2022 goes to Ulrich Reifenhauser

Ulrich Reifenhäuser, CSO of the Reifenhäuser Group, was awarded the Georg Menges Prize 2022. This is awarded for outstanding commitment to collaboration between research and industry. https://www.plastverarbeiter.de/markt/georg-menges-preis-2022-geht-an-ulrich-reifenhaeuser-458.html

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On Being a Plastic Hall of Famer

Written by: Glenn L. Beall Membership in the Plastics Hall of Fame (PHF) is the highest honor the Plastics Industry bestows on an individual. The final selection is made by the members of the PHF who assure and maintain the high membership qualifications. One only has to review the list.

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Honor Awaits Inventor

Written by: Tyrel Linkhorn | Blade BUSINESS writer Published on: March 31, 2012 Original Article › Coca-Cola Co.’s contour bottle, introduced in 1916, is perhaps the best-known packaging design in American history, but when the soft-drink maker switched to plastic, it was confined to the same straight-sided bottle as everyone.

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