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CROATIA
Plastics sector shows strong growth rates / Both exports and imports up in 2008 / Highly dependent on feedstock from abroad
17.05.2010
PLASTICS PROCESSING
Europe's injection moulding industry is feeling the crunch / Future growth largely driven by eastern Europe / Western European market contracts / Latest AMI report
17.05.2010
DOBROPLAST
Plans for third PVC window profiles production facility in Poland
13.05.2010
FRANCE
Plastics processors association urges manufacturers and processors to remain calm / First customers on allocation
04.05.2010
BOPP FILM
Global demand on the rise / China is world's largest market / India booming / Latest research conducted by AMI
04.05.2010
COMPOSITES
“New era” dawning for composites, says JEC / Visitor and exhibitor numbers at Paris show stable / Trend toward joining carbon fibres and thermoplastics / Monthly PIE composites reports to kick off in May
26.04.2010
AUSTRIA
Total plastics processing output down to EUR 4 bn in 2009
22.04.2010
POLYETHYLENE FILMS
European consumption drops to 7.4m t / Demand in building and construction crumbles / Eastern European manufacturers make AMI's top 50 for the first time
20.04.2010
PLASTICS PROCESSING
Nearly 3m t of polymers processed in Gulf Cooperation Council states in 2009 / Packaging about half the market / No regional production of high performance plastics / AMI report
19.04.2010
OLHO
Key Plastics takes over Löhne headquarters / Iberomoldes acquires plants in Brazil and Portugal
12.04.2010
PLASTIC PACKAGING
German plastic packaging manufacturers optimistic about Q2 / Higher polymer prices are eating away at margins
06.04.2010
FILM MARKET
Messe Düsseldorf market report ahead of “K 2010”
26.03.2010
BALDA
Injection moulder awakens from touch screen dream / Refocus on mobile telephone market
08.03.2010
PLASTICS PROCESSING EUROPE
EuPC enters trade dialogue with European Parliament / Converters increasingly under pressure
08.03.2010
GERMAN PLASTICS CONVERTERS
Double-digit sales, production setback in 2009 / Industry advises caution on speed of recovery
19.02.2010
FAURECIA
Takeover of all six German Plastal plants / Deal includes right to buy French and Spanish sites
05.02.2010
UK PLASTICS INDUSTRY
Positive outlook for 2010 / Most players expect sales increases / British Plastics Federation survey
03.02.2010
MANULI STRETCH
Film manufacturer to expand at German plant for the third time / Group capacity increases to 310,000 t/y
28.01.2010
FRANCE
Sales of plastics processing industry only forecast to rise slightly in 2010 / Relocation to other countries set to continue
26.01.2010
DUPONT
New USD 175m “Tedlar” film plant to start 2011 in Ohio / Demand from photovoltaics industry
25.01.2010
EXTRUDED PLASTICS
US market to reach USD 23 bn in 2013 / Resurgent housing industry boosts demand / Freedonia report
22.01.2010
MONDI
UK flexoprinting expansion is completed / Film extrusion line and printer added at Scunthorpe
19.01.2010
AUTOLIV
Fire destroys Tunisian steering wheel plant / Capacity shifted to France / Four global sites earmarked for closure
11.01.2010
BOREALIS
Exit from rotomoulding business in March 2010 / Polyolefins group cites shrinking end-user market
04.01.2010
SIBUR
MoU signed to create Russia's largest PP complex
04.01.2010
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