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PLASTICS PROCESSING / RAW MATERIAL MARKETS Hand-wringing everywhere / Processors' associations react with concern: “Don't leave us hanging!” / Restrictions likely to continue well into April / Calmer price situation first expected at year's end	05.03.2021
TURKEY Plastics association proposes solutions to surging resin prices / Domestic producers should sell to local processors / Calls for pausing import duties	10.02.2021
TURKEY Spot prices rise in first quarter / Plastics imports increase at the start of 2019 / Currency weakness unsettles markets / Subdued polymers consumption in 2018 due to recession	18.04.2019
TURKEY Currency crisis stifles polymer imports / Prices soar as lira falls / Markets in calmer waters since September	03.12.2018
RAVAGO Belgian compounder and distributor acquires Bolcof / Boost to US polymers business	26.09.2018
PTT Thai group forward integrates into PTA and PET / Majority shares in SCG and Mitsui	15.08.2018
CHINA New environmental tax will affect enterprises throughout the country / Small cost impact for plastics producers / Facilities require less polluting technologies	17.10.2017
CHINA False alarm on port restrictions for vessels carrying bulk chemicals along Yangtze River / Styrene, MEG and benzene imports remain unaffected in October	03.10.2017
CHINA Many "teapot" refineries and petrochemical lines forced to close in Shandong region / Reopening subject to strict conditions	19.09.2017
DOW / DUPONT China approves merger under conditions / On track for completion by the beginning of September	05.05.2017
DUPONT Conditional EU approval for merger with Dow	03.04.2017
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS PE, PP, PS: Strike leads Total to declare force majeure for Gonfreville / Other sites also affected	19.05.2016
IRAN Iranian petrochemical group completes first bank transactions in Europe / International marketing activities expanded / Paving the way for future exports	13.01.2016
CHINA Lower import duties for key petrochemical feedstocks and polymers	12.01.2016
INTERVIEW “Our industry needs reliable suppliers!” / IK president Roland Roth on the situation on the polyolefin market / Need for more choice / US processors could become a threat	16.10.2015
INTERVIEW PIE talks to Ron Marsh, head of the Polymers for Europe Alliance, about the goals of the plastics processors‘ initiative / "Best European Polymer Producer" award	12.10.2015
VERSALIS Unions pick up on plans for sale of Eni's plastics arm / US investor said to be in the picture	09.10.2015
INTERVIEW “Plethora of FM announcements difficult to comprehend” / IK general manager Ulf Kelterborn on the current situation	30.04.2015
PLASTICS MARKETS EUROPE European Compounders and Masterbatchers Association questions legality of recent FMs / Latest group to express worry about current situation	22.04.2015
PLASTICS MARKETS EUROPE Raw material shortages threaten existence of FIBC producers / No choice but to pass on rising costs to customers / EFIBCA industry association	21.04.2015
PLASTICS MARKETS EUROPE French and German plastic packaging manufacturers alarmed by "unprecedented” tight supply of standard thermoplastics / Deliveries to customers said to be threatened / Declarations of force majeures questioned	10.04.2015
PLASTICS MARKETS EUROPE Plastics associations voice concern over recent force majeure announcements / Processors increasingly under threat / Call for more transparency	07.04.2015
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS Global oil price slide takes petrochemical chains down with it / Polymer notations plummet across the world / Decline picking up speed / Weak euro brakes downturn somewhat	16.01.2015
SOUTH AFRICA Commodity plastics consumption to grow by 4.7% per year to 2017 / Growing demand for packaged foods / Frost & Sullivan report	08.07.2014
REPSOL Plans to invest EUR 120m in Tarragona and Puertollano through 2016 / Restructuring for high-grade materials EVA, PE metallocene grades and polyols / Days numbered for EPS site Monzon	01.10.2013

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