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GERMAN PLASTICS ECONOMY
Industry pleased with H1 2016 / Business better than expected / Outlook more subdued but still positive / China's offensive viewed skeptically / Readership survey
 		26.07.2016
COLLATION SHRINK FILM
European market to increase at moderate pace to 850,000 t in 2020 / Down-gauging “masks” market gains / Metallocene resins offer printing opportunities at point of sale / AMI report
 		26.07.2016
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Raw material developments will drive printing technology advances / Metal to post fastest gains in lead-up to 2026 / Costs will continue to decline / Smithers Pira study
 		25.07.2016
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
LDPE: Versalis lifts force majeure for Ferrara
 		20.07.2016
COMPOSITES
Recycling routes developed to tackle growing FRP waste / Composites UK report
 		20.07.2016
SHALE GAS
Ineos beats the drum harder post-Brexit / Calls for UK manufacturing renaissance
 		15.07.2016
CHINA
Follow-up: “Zhejiang Blue” directive ahead of G20 Summit will impact businesses within a 300km radius / Cracker operating rates to be lowered during two-week period
 		14.07.2016
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Major fire at Iran's Bandar Imam economic zone hits naphtha tank, aromatics units / No known casualties / Paraxylene leakage suspected / Restart in several weeks
 		12.07.2016
CHINA
“Zhejiang Blue” could see many industrial operations switched off ahead of G20 summit / Environment and “craftsmanship spirit” key to long-term plans / What does “Made in China 2025” mean for the plastics sector?
 		08.07.2016
GERMAN PLASTICS MACHINERY
Stable uptrend / USA overtakes China as main export market / VDMA industry association predicts 2% growth in 2016 and 2017
 		30.06.2016
SPECIALITY FILMS
Global market to expand by 6% per year to 2021 / Limits by economic growth / Strongest growth in Asia Pacific / Smithers Pira report
 		30.06.2016
UNITED KINGDOM
More than 50% of respondents to PIE poll say “Brexit” will not impact their business / More than a third fear negative repercussions / “Not the decision our sector wanted,” says UK chemicals association / Linpac does not expect any change
 		29.06.2016
PU FOAM
Europur reports good performance last year / EU imports surge as exports fall / Study extended to include Russia and Turkey
 		29.06.2016
UNITED KINGDOM
"Brexit is stupid" / 52% of British population votes to leave the EU / Plastics industry reacts calmly / Important market in Europe / Many corporate headquarters likely to relocate to the continent
 		27.06.2016
GERMAN PLASTICS PROCESSING
Strong dynamic in the first third of 2016 / Riding on the coattails of the upswing from autumn and winter 2015 / 4% growth year-on-year / Construction business well above average / Semi-finished products a little more subdued
 		27.06.2016
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