One of the early U.S. makers of plastic toy cars and trucks is liquidating, blaming shrinking profit and offshore competition. Processed Plastic Co. of Montgomery, Ill., will host an auction Aug.

Walled Lake, Mich. — John Gessert remembers his early days in toys. More than 30 years ago, he was on a sales call in Ohio presenting his company's new toy lines. The distributor he called on reviewed ...

This story is about the president of a plastic toy company, Charles Marcak. The tale springs from my discovery of what I initially thought was the first production set of plastic army men, his ...

One of the most common methods of converting plastics from the raw material form to an article of use is the process of injection moulding. This process is most typically used for thermoplastic ...