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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
PRENT
New facilities in China and Denmark / Chinese market anticipated to outgrow North America and Europe / Holbaek expansion is already planned
22.12.2009
SABIC INNOVATIVE PLASTICS
Indian film and sheet production expanded
21.12.2009
MICROWAVE PACKAGING
US market to reach USD 2.4 bn in 2013 / Fresh prepared foods show fastest growth / Frozen foods remain the largest user at 60% / Freedonia report
21.12.2009
GULF STATES
Gulf Cooperation Council member states invested around USD 82 bn in plastics and chemicals manufacturing industry in 2008 / More than 50% of all state investment
16.12.2009
PREMIUM AEROTEC
Takeover of EADS composite processing in Lemwerder / Cooperation with SGL Group
16.12.2009
ALGERIA
Plastics industry grows by 4.5% each year / Plast Alger 2010
14.12.2009
PLASTICS PROCESSING
Downturn costs UK plastic product manufacturers EUR 1.4 bn in lost profits / 24% of companies still managed to maintain or improve margins
10.12.2009
ADVAL TECH
Merenschwand plant to shut as major contract is lost
08.12.2009
AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING
Reutlingen headlamp production to be moved to Czech Republic / 130 employees affected
08.12.2009
RESILUX
Sales and profits improve in second half 2009 / Production to be restructured in central Europe
03.12.2009
FLEXIBLE PACKAGING
Global market to reach 19m t in 2013 / Developing regions will show highest growth / China becomes world's second largest consumer / Freedonia report
01.12.2009
FACC
Foundation stone laid for Strata plant in Abu Dhabi / Production of composite parts for aircraft construction
30.11.2009
GERMAN PLASTICS PROCESSING
Business improves in Q3 against Q2 / Still 14% below 2008 quarter / Building applications shine
27.11.2009
BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE
Joint venture in India with Malibu Plastica / Production and marketing of PC sheet
27.11.2009
GEORG FISCHER
Piping division to concentrate Tecno Plastic Alprene's fittings production at new plant near Genoa
25.11.2009
WICOR
Capacity for medical technology expanded in Bad Ragaz / New clean rooms at Weidmann
25.11.2009
PLASTIC PRESSURE PIPES
Sabic forecasts that global market for HDPE pressure pipes will reach 5m t in 2013 / Shin-Etsu examines alternatives to lead stabilisers
16.11.2009
LM GLASFIBER
Capacity at third Chinese blade plant to double
12.11.2009
GRAHAM PACKAGING
IPO to raise USD 350m / Third quarter operating profit increases by 40% / Sale of French subsidiary
10.11.2009
MICHEL BAULE
Sale of PUR and thermoplastics processor Exsto / Focus on PUR casting resins and machinery
06.11.2009
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