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SONOCO
Purchase of Matrix Packaging completed after anti-trust clearance / Cash deal of USD 210m
15.06.2007
POLYTEC GROUP
Takeover of ISE Intex / Staff to be retained / Even bigger deal in the works?
05.06.2007
PERLOS
Gritech agrees to buy Finnish injection moulding business / Losses mount in first quarter
07.05.2007
PERLOS
End of mobile phone moulding in Finland / Over 1,100 jobs to go / New regional structure
08.03.2007
SCHEFENACKER
Financial restructuring plan revealed / EUR 55m in "fresh money" / Lighting division to be sold
13.02.2007
CHINA
Plastics demand to reach 50m t in 2010 / Injection moulding growing at 8% annually / AMI database
02.02.2007
BALDA
Contract for new touch-screen iPhone likely / Moulding in China / Corporate raider on the prowl
19.01.2007
PERLOS
4,000 jobs threatened worldwide / Finnish production plants to close / Focus on low end of mobile phone market
17.01.2007
CADENCE INNOVATION
Plastic Omnium to take over Vernon main plant
12.01.2007
GERRESHEIMER
Wilden deal pushes packaging specialist´s sales close to EUR 1 bn / Stock launch planned for 2007
11.01.2007
GARDENA
Swedish company Husqvarna buys garden tool manufacturer / No plans for significant job cuts or for shift in production
05.01.2007
CADENCE
Administration until late January / Sora, Faurecia and Plastic Omnium said to be ready to take over plants
05.01.2007
POLIMOON
Promens comes up with winning bid / Continuation as an independent company
03.01.2007
INJECTION MOULDING
Iberian industry growing at 3% annually / Volumes reach 900,000 t /y / AMI report
13.12.2006
KATY
British consumer plastics business sold to Jardin International / Buyer is Keter subsidiary
12.12.2006
TRW
New injection moulding plant starts in China
08.12.2006
EURONYL
Belgian firm acquires Alençon Plastic / French injection moulder
04.12.2006
DR. SCHNEIDER
Second Polish plant goes on stream
23.11.2006
POLIMOON
Takeover struggle between CapMan and Promens still a "cliffhanger" / Sale of rotomoulding business
15.11.2006
MOSSI & GHISOLFI
Rothschild appointed to find PET partner / Packaging now accounts for only 9% of sales
15.11.2006
SCHEFENACKER
Job cuts at Engelmann / German sites to be retained
09.11.2006
PLASTIC OMNIUM
UK plant to close in 2007 / Output hit by declining demand from the automotive market
31.10.2006
BALDA
Further repercussions from the BenQ affair / Three German facilities for sale / Job losses
31.10.2006
BENQ
Toll manufacturing future for insolvent mobile phone company? / Ray of hope for German end
19.10.2006
GLOBAL CLOSURE SYSTEMS
Former Crown group European business to be consolidated / End for Obrist Switzerland?
09.10.2006
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