The Crain's Global Polymer Group is a collection of plastics- and rubber-related publications operated by Crain Communications Inc. in

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. Crain Communications Inc., PN’s parent company, acquired

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's polymer-related assets in July 2007 to form the Plastics News Global Group. Those properties, headquartered in Croydon, England, include Plastics & Rubber Weekly and the monthly European Plastics News. The 11,800-circulation PRW has been serving the U.K.

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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. Via its 2007 deal with

, Plastics News also inherited a publishing licensing agreement with the management of the Singapore-based trade magazine Asian Plastics News, which has since expired.

Assets

Plastics News (North America) —

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, the Plastics Encounter trade show, the PN Executive Forum and other North American conferences.

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