{
  "id": 7942218,
  "title": "Colombia Launches Latin America’s First Digital Transformation Center for Plastics Industry",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/colombia-launches-latin-americas-first-digital-transformation-center",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-17T03:21:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Colombia One",
    "slug": "colombia-one",
    "url": "https://colombiaone.com/2026/09/16/colombia-digital-transformation-center-plastics-industry/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Colombia is set to launch Latin America's first Digital Transformation Center for the Plastics Industry, called i4Plas, which will focus on helping plastics processing companies adopt Industry 4.0 technologies to improve productivity and sustainability. The center, developed by the Colombian Association of Plastics Industries (Acoplasticos), the Institute for Plastics and Rubber Training and Research (ICIPC), and KERN IoP, aims to address key challenges facing the sector, including increasing productivity, rising energy costs, and a shortage of workers with specialized digital skills. With i4Plas, plastics processing plants in Colombia will transition toward \"smart factories\" through applied research, industrial pilot projects, and technical training.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}