Jeannie Reall

A proposed SRI CV Plastics Inc. plant continues to generate controversy despite concessions the company offered at a Sept. 14 meeting of the Town of Lockport (N.Y.) Industrial Development Agency's directors.

Reynolds Advanced Materials Inc. has acquired Eager Polymers and its distribution business in mold-making materials, epoxies and urethanes. Mark Villegas, who sold the business, will continue distributing other materials as the 13-year owner of Castolite Co.

Dallas investment firm NexPoint Capital Inc. is investing $2 million in bioplastics maker PlantSwitch Inc., completing the latter's $7.7 million early growth funding round.

Officials from several labor organizations were expected to join the picket line Feb. 1 outside Westmoreland Plastics Co., a Latrobe, Pa., thermoset injection and compression molder.

Singapore-based injection molder and toolmaker Sunningdale Tech Ltd. is continuing to expand its North American operations, completing an asset purchase agreement with Proactive Plastics LLC of Phoenix.

Southwest Heater & Controls Inc. (SWHC) has become the latest addition to Gryphon Investors' platform for temperature-management product companies, Thermal Technology Distribution Solutions (TTDS).

Machine blade maker Edge Industrial Technologies has a new investor, the Falfurrias Capital Partners fund of Falfurrias Management Partners.

Party City Holdco Inc. is liquidating a bevy of thermoforming and sheet extruding equipment from the Rumford, R.I., plant of a subsidiary, Amscan Inc.

Packaging and promotional products maker Garyline LLC has moved into its new Florida facility after relocating from New York and partnering with a private equity firm.

Film and sheet giant Inteplast Group has acquired a paper packaging maker that will operate under Inteplast's Integrated Bagging Sytems (IBS) Division.