Politics and public opinion go a long way toward steering any industry, and the plastics industry is no different. In the 2020s, the public’s rising

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With pen and paper in hand, we sat by the fire sipping hot chocolate, scribbling out our Christmas wish list for Santa. We’d pondered, stared

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Kip McAlister, president and CEO of Lone Star, took time with an interviewer to answer questions about Lone Star’s logistics, operations, and the defining traits

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If there ever was someone who could be said to have been “born” into the plastics industry, that person would have to be Kip McAlister,