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CAUCASUS Plastics regulation reaches Europe's periphery / Producers across region weigh in on impact of restrictions / Calls made to establish recycling infrastructure, instead of restrictions	16.09.2026
UK DRS operator announces producer fees / Drinks producers face no fee for first 15 months after launch	16.09.2026
EVONIK German downsizing continues despite earnings relief / Hamburg and Bitterfeld sites to get the axe / Around 90 jobs affected	14.09.2026
BORYSZEW Earnings improve / Automotive business moves in reverse / Entry into drone industry	14.09.2026
SCHÜTZ Acquires Italian IBC reconditioner and recycler Repack	14.09.2026
FRANCE Plans for mandatory DRS on plastic bottles scrapped / Voluntary, locally targeted system offered instead / Beverage industry slams government U-turn	11.09.2026
MEDICAL PACKAGING PPWR puts healthcare packaging companies under pressure despite pharma exemptions	10.09.2026
PPWR / RECYCLED CONTENT 'We need planning certainty quickly' / Bvse recycling expert Anna Roeb warns of investment risks for plastics recyclers in interview with PIE / Calls for equivalent standards for imports	10.09.2026
PLASTIFLEX Belgian tubing manufacturer acquires Italian medtech supplier Sidam	09.09.2026
UK CONSTRUCTION Housebuilding decline drives down output in August / Major UK housebuilder warns it will make loss this year	08.09.2026
AUMOVIO Former Continental automotive division sells windscreen, headlamp cleaning business to Certina / Adjusted EBIT plunges in H1	08.09.2026
GROUPE SEB Turnover holds roughly at previous year's level / Up to 2,100 jobs set to be lost	07.09.2026
PLASTICS TAX UK Revenues from PPT fall 4% / Volumes of taxable material decline by 7% / BPF says tax encourages lightweighting rather than greater recyclate use	04.09.2026
ENVALIOR Partners with Secara to develop chemically recycled PA 6 for automotive applications	01.09.2026
EUROPEAN CAR MARKET PPWR puts automotive packaging supply chains under new pressure	31.08.2026
EVERTIS Portuguese PET film producer expands in Mexico / Focus on North American business	31.08.2026
EUROPEAN CONSTRUCTION Rate of activity decline slows in July / Demand still weak, project cancellations rise	27.08.2026
AUTOMOTIVE EUROPE Popularity of EVs reaches tipping point / Trump's conflict with Iran continues to drive sales	26.08.2026
ALUJAIN Cooperation with Belgium's Beaulieu Fibres on PP fibre / NatPet-2 project with LyondellBasell in progress	26.08.2026
TURKEY Production and sales of household appliances continue to decline	25.08.2026
IRPLAST New BOPP line to significantly expand capacity at Atessa site in Italy	25.08.2026
RECENSO Tech firm to take technology to industrial scale itself, following Carboliq insolvency	24.08.2026
BEWI EPS specialist back in the black / Producer confident for third quarter too	21.08.2026
PACKAGING EUROPE PPWR: Dispute over producer's role in pallet packaging / "Stretch film on a roll is not yet packaging"	21.08.2026
AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING Covestro, Forvia, BMW among partners in headlamp-recycling research project	19.08.2026

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