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PLASTICS RECYCLING EUROPE
PRE issues new strategy paper at 20th anniversary meeting / Current market structure “highly unsustainable” / Calls for more holistic approach to recycling / Need for standardisation
 		24.06.2016
CAPS AND CLOSURES
Rising demand for dispensing and child-resistant products boosts US sales / US market to expand by 3.9% per year to 2020 / Freedonia report
 		24.06.2016
HIGH-PERFORMANCE PIGMENTS
Environmental controls impact raw materials availability / Global market forecast to increase by 3% per year to 2021 / Growth in emerging markets continues to decline / Smithers Pira report
 		22.06.2016
TURKEY
Plastics industry slowly starts to grow again / Gains still fall short of expectations / Europe's second largest processing country / Few changes on the imports front / Pagev highlights the need to improve competitiveness
 		21.06.2016
PLASTICS PROCESSING EUROPE
European converters remain a competitive force / Sector increasingly threatened by insecure raw material supply, high costs and foreign players / Innovation and client proximity strongpoints for continental companies / New study by EuPC and Wieselhuber
 		13.06.2016
FRANCE
Situation on petrochemicals front appears to be easing / Pilots announce strikes coinciding with start of UEFA Championship
 		10.06.2016
WOOD PLASTIC COMPOSITES
US demand to grow by 6.9% per year to 2020 / Higher value products favoured as economy improves / Freedonia report
 		10.06.2016
SMART PACKAGING
Technical developments and food waste concerns drive global demand / Printed electronics progress boosts intelligent packaging uptake / Smithers Pira report
 		08.06.2016
US BIOPOLYMERS
Demand set to increase by 4.3% annually / Cellulose ethers account for one third of market / Packaging segment benefits from declining PLA prices / Freedonia study
 		07.06.2016
PLASTICS RECYCLING
Switzerland to lift recycling fee for PET bottles on 1 July
 		07.06.2016
POLYURETHANE
Ukraine imposes anti-dumping duties on semi-finished PU materials
 		07.06.2016
SHALE GAS
Non-binding vote to ban fracking passes Scottish Parliament / Ineos “focused on England” / Crotty says Scotland will “miss out”
 		07.06.2016
PVC RECYCLING
UK medical waste collection scheme operational in seven hospitals
 		30.05.2016
FRANCE
Strikes widened to include nuclear plants / Refinery blockade hits plastics converters
 		27.05.2016
FRANCE
Police slowly clear union barricades blocking refineries / Public mood flags / Union threatens to extend strikes to rail and nuclear plants / More force majeure declarations
 		25.05.2016
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