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Companies Extrusion Flexible Films

TREOFAN
Restructuring plan for Neunkirchen facility passed / Fewer redundancies than originally feared
15.03.2013
SAINT-GOBAIN
Westlake buys US-based PVC pipe business / Strengthening activities in biopharmaceutical components made of plastic
12.03.2013
BILCARE RESEARCH / ALFATHERM
Swapping pharma and furniture business activities / Focusing on core competencies
11.03.2013
SEALED AIR
Cost synergies and higher volumes help drive up operating profit in 2012 / Diversey acquisition adds to gains / New financial reporting divisions in Q4
01.03.2013
TRIOPLAST
Swedish facility to close as production is focused on one site / EUR 30m investment in machinery and automation
27.02.2013
TREOFAN
BOPP film manufacturer on track for growth / Management wants to increase sales outside Europe / Job cuts at German plant in Neunkirchen / High potential for technical film
12.02.2013
PAKISTAN
Symphony CEO welcomes plastic bag legislation / All plastics must be oxo-biodegradable from April
07.02.2013
BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE
Purchase of land ahead of functional films expansion at US site
01.02.2013
AEP INDUSTRIES
Operating profit rises 42% as sales are lifted by Webster acquisition
30.01.2013
TREOFAN
New business unit for “TreoPore” microporous separator membrane
29.01.2013
BASF
Sale of Conica Sport Surfaces to Serafin Group / New owner will grow the brand through “targeted investment”
14.01.2013
ZHEJIANG YUNSU FILM INDUSTRIAL
Chinese group to commission new BOPP line in 2013 / Austria's Andritz supplies machinery
19.12.2012
TREOFAN
Multi-national executive committee for strategic redirection / Two new positions created
11.12.2012
MONDI
Packaging producer building new manufacturing hall in Germany / New administrative tract
28.11.2012
BRÜCKNER
Portugal's film producer Casfil invests in BOPP line
12.11.2012
EXXONMOBIL
BOPP films business to be sold to India's Jindal PolyFilm / Merged capacity totals 480,000 t/y
30.10.2012
EASTMAN
Completion of PVB expansion in Belgium
30.10.2012
SITA
New PE agricultural and industrial film recycling plant opened in France
30.10.2012
AMCOR
Three non-core flexible packaging plants sold to Integrated Packaging
23.10.2012
FILM RECYCLING UK
BPI: Combat export restrictions by increasing product recycled content / Focus on domestic market / "Recycling not going fantastically well"
18.10.2012
TAGHLEEF INDUSTRIES
Cooperating with Poland's Invico on coated BOPP and BoPLA films / New coating lines
04.10.2012
UPDATE - MONDI
Nordenia acquisition wrapped up / A new consumer packaging giant is born
02.10.2012
SCHUR FLEXIBLES
German packaging specialist Vacufol acquired / Austrian group plans additional purchases
12.09.2012
TREOFAN
Non-binding offer to acquire Indian BOPP film manufacturer Max Speciality Films / Expanding footprint in Asia
12.09.2012
BEMIS
Follow-up: French plant among those scheduled to be closed by year's end
29.08.2012
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