About the Organisers
About the organisers
pdm12 is organised by 
The Plastics News Global Group — owned by Detroit-based Crain Communications Inc. — encompasses three print publications, four websites, five e-mail newsletters, two trade shows, more than a dozen conferences, and two industry award programs.
In Europe
PRW and European Plastics News
PRINT: Crain acquired Emap Communications' polymer-related assets in July 2007. The 11,800-circulation PRW has been serving the UK plastics industry since 1964. European Plastics News launched in 1974, and is the only pan-European magazine serving the entire plastics manufacturing sector, including the growing industry in central and Eastern Europe. It circulates to 13,800 subscribers in 20 countries.
DIGITAL: prw.com and europeanplasticsnews.com
Also a free daily prw.com news email, and europeanplasticsnews.com weekly news bulletin
North America
Plastics News
PRINT: The group's flagship publication, Plastics News, is a 60,000-circulation, weekly newspaper serving primarily the North American market. Founded by Crain 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's mission is to report completely, promptly, fairly and accurately, and to provide plastics industry officials with the market information and competitive intelligence they need to do their jobs more effectively.
DIGITAL: The April 1996 launch of the PlasticsNews.com Web site turned the weekly newspaper into a global daily news service. Various free e-mail newsletters include: Plastics News Daily NewsMail, the weekly Materials Alert, and the weekly Classifieds by E-mail. (See samples of all.)
EVENTS: Plastics News organises several events, including its annual Executive Forum and its Plastics Encounter regional trade shows. These serve as forums for the presentation of new products and ideas and for independent discussion of issues of concern to the industry.
AWARDS: Plastics News presents two awards annually. Since 1996, it has given its Processor of the Year Award to a worthy North American plastics processor; the winner is crowned 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.Asia
Plastics News China
DIGITAL: 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 broadcasts the eWeekly every Tuesday to about 15,000 subscribers worldwide.
Crain Communications Inc.
Crain Communications was founded in 1916, is one of North America's largest family-owned business publishing companies, with more than 30 titles and more than 1,000 employees. View an overview of the company's publications, which include Advertising Age and Automotive News, Rubber & Plastics News, Urethanes Technology, and city business newspapers in Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and New York.
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