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ITALY
Petrochemical managers indicted on environmental charges at Porto Torres / Trial set for December
05.08.2011
BASF / PURAC
Negotiations to establish bio-based succinic acid joint venture / World-scale plant to start up by 2013 in Spain
03.08.2011
PVC MARKET
Americas demand to grow 0.3% per year to 2020 / Consumption of 6.1m t in 2010 / GBI Research report
02.08.2011
LINDE / BECHTEL
Partnering to develop ethylene solutions for North American shale gas reserves
01.08.2011
KRAUSSMAFFEI
New service and sales support office opens in Columbia
01.08.2011
GERMAN PLASTICS ECONOMY
Business boom continues in H1 2011 / Companies increase staff, capital spending / Few anticipate major problems with nuclear power phase-out / Economic cooling looks likely
27.07.2011
BAYER MATERIALSCIENCE
Successful test for gas phase phosgenation technology at Caojing TDI plant / 250,000 t/y facility to be commissioned successively this year
27.07.2011
MOULD MANUFACTURING
AMBA says trading conditions are improving for US mould manufacturers / Plastics sales up in May
27.07.2011
SINOPEC
Trial run of new 300,000 t/y vinyl acetate line successful
25.07.2011
SIG COMBIBLOC
Brazilian packaging facility begins production / Output to double to 2 billion cartons annually within two years
19.07.2011
UK PLASTICS INDUSTRY
Manufacturing growth stunted by raw material shortages and high prices / Only 29% of companies expect improved profitability in 2011, despite higher sales turnover / Latest BPF survey
18.07.2011
PET RECYCLING
Europe collected 1.45m t of PET in 2010 / 6.5% year-on-year increase / Recycle plants only utilise 80% of current capacity
14.07.2011
MOSSI & GHISOLFI
Follow-up: Italian group decides to build new PET/PTA hub in Corpus Christi, Texas
13.07.2011
RUSVINYL
EUR 750m in financing secured for new integrated PVC hub / State-of-the-art European technologies and equipment
08.07.2011
ASSOCIATIONS
Leading US and Canadian plastics groups join hands / Establish North American Plastics Alliance
08.07.2011
PLASTIC PACKAGING
Recycling rates continue to rise in EU / German-speaking Europe boasts highest recycling volumes / Still room to grow / Europen report
07.07.2011
ANWIL
Czech PVC subsidiary Spolana reportedly up for sale / Poland's ZAT interested in caprolactam
06.07.2011
GERMAN ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY
Electrical industry sets export record
01.07.2011
GERMAN PLASTIC CONVERTERS
Sales slightly above pre-crisis levels during first four months of 2011 / Growth rates flatten / Pressured by higher costs
28.06.2011
OPAL
Italy's Tecnimont charged with realisation of new PP and PE lines in India's Dahej Special Economic Zone
28.06.2011
UK PLASTICS CONVERTERS
Processing sector ripe for consolidation / Opportunities for cash-rich companies
27.06.2011
UK RECYCLING
Government waste policy review receives lukewarm response from recycler ECO Plastics / Critical of recycling incentive schemes
23.06.2011
PET
Turkish anti-dumping duties take hold
21.06.2011
VIVANTA
Indian import group buys North American PVC plant / 220,000 t/y facility to begin operations on the subcontinent in 2012
21.06.2011
BASF
Annual MDI capacity in Korea being widened to 250,000 t / Site expansion to cost EUR 50m
17.06.2011
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