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AUTOMOTIVE PLASTICS
Metals substitution and rising production of passenger cars drive global demand / PP accounts for about 28% of market / Grand View Research study
 		14.09.2015
SPECIALTY FILMS
US market to grow by nearly 5% to 2019 / Construction and electronics sectors to be best performers / Healthy demand from packaging / Freedonia report
 		11.09.2015
EUROPEAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Confidence maintained despite minimal output growth / Sales down 4% / Trade surplus deteriorates / Polymers output continues pointing down in June / Cefic chemicals trends report
 		09.09.2015
INDUSTRIAL PACKAGING
Global market expanding at 3.4% per year / Smithers Pira report
 		04.09.2015
FEEDSTOCK MARKETS
Propylene: New PDH plants in Asia about to be commissioned / Wanhua reports start up / Hyosung's facility also up and running
 		02.09.2015
PLASTICS RECYCLING UK
413,000 t of plastics recycled in H1 / Close to 50% of annual goal met / Q2 sees slight rise in material exported for reprocessing
 		31.08.2015
STRATASYS
3D printing to spur growth in additive manufacturing / Plastics in high demand / Independent survey
 		26.08.2015
GERMAN PLASTICS PROCESSING
Feedstock price swings reflected in the statistical H1 balance sheet / Depressed sales at the start of the year gradually lifted by cost rises / Full-year revenues could set new record
 		25.08.2015
NORTH AMERICAN PVC FILMS MARKET
Regulatory pressures limit US and Canada growth / Production could shift to Mexico / Grand View Research report
 		25.08.2015
BIOPLASTIC PACKAGING
Global consumption growing at 21% per year / Fastest growth projected for PET, PE and PP / Smithers Pira study
 		24.08.2015
CHINA
Medium-level growth has become the new normal / Plastics processing sector expansion in current Five Year Plan 50% less than in preceding period / CPPIA officials point to need for innovation
 		20.08.2015
NATIONAL PLASTICS PROCESSING CENTRE
WMG establishes UK national hub for innovation and research in plastics processing / Fully integrated approach to design, manufacturing and disposal
 		20.08.2015
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Full operations at Unipetrol's Litvinov cracker unlikely to resume for months / Investigation into fire ongoing
 		19.08.2015
PET RECYCLING
India introduces ban on imports of post-consumer PET waste / 78,000 t of material turned away in May / Domestic recycling industry relied on 70-80% imports
 		19.08.2015
PET
US imposes provisional anti-dumping duties on PET from China and India / No tariffs for Omani imports
 		18.08.2015
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