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LA SEDA
Catalana de Polimers integrated / PET focus
13.01.2005
SOLVAY
Tripling of worldwide capacity for sulphone polymers / New plant to go on stream in 2006
13.01.2005
HT TROPLAST
HT Troplast to be sold to Advent and Carlyle / Last of Rütgers plastics business divested
13.01.2005
POLYOLEFINS
Mitsui-Idemitsu merger to create Japan´s largest PP producer / EUR 1.7 bn business
13.01.2005
COMPOUNDING MARKET
Integrated PP players show market muscle
23.12.2004
TVK/SLOVNAFT
Expansion continues / Focus on automotive / Stiffer polyolefins competition in the east
23.12.2004
BIP
Amino moulding bought out of administration
23.12.2004
PARKSIDE INTERNATIONAL
Films business put in administration / Polish plant and flexibles activities are unaffected
23.12.2004
HAGEDORN
Subsidiary Podt Alplain buys Van der Molen
23.12.2004
COMPOSITES
UK initiative to promote lightweight materials / Pan-industrial network / Help for smaller firms
23.12.2004
SARNA
Sale of automotive segment / Sarnamotive Switzerland goes to Wafa investment company
23.12.2004
SMITHS GROUP
Acquisition of US, Chinese medical devices and seals manufacturers / Cash payments
23.12.2004
CARCLO
Joint venture for control cables in India / Output to be cut in UK / Start-up in September 2005
23.12.2004
POLAND
Economy recovers / GDP up 3.6% / Plastics processing has above-average share of industrial production / Infrastructure needs developing / Will EU membership affect small businesses?
09.12.2004
CYCLICS
First commercial resin from new German unit in 2005 / Search is on for new 25,000 t/y plant site
09.12.2004
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Thermoplastics to grow 6% in 2004 / China accounts for 65% of demand / New AMI study
09.12.2004
TUFNOL
MBO from receiver / Business restructured and renamed / Over 70 jobs, Scottish depot saved
09.12.2004
PLASTICS CONVERTERS
Polymer price hikes “cripple early recovery” / Firms under pressure to pass on extra costs
09.12.2004
NOVA / BP
Anti-trust issues may not impact planned styrenics joint venture / Market consolidation
09.12.2004
NYPRO
Computer industry restructuring hits Irish moulder / Waterford plant may be shut down
09.12.2004
LAIRD PLASTICS
Acquisition by Blackfriars for USD 65m / New player will have 10% of the US shapes market
25.11.2004
CINPRES GAS INJECTION
Patented technologies acquired from US rival / Single licence for outflow moulding techniques
25.11.2004
WILDEN
German injection moulder with joint ventures in Dubai, China / Sales recovery expected in 2004
25.11.2004
MPM
Sales rise 10% / All group companies profitable Incoming orders up / More cost cutting ahead
25.11.2004
US PACKAGING INDUSTRY
Plastics to pull even with paper by 2008
25.11.2004
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