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RUSSIA
Specialty chemicals market to grow by 5.6% to 2018 / Government targets reduction in imports to 12% / TechSci Research report
 		23.04.2014
CHINA POLYETHYLENE MARKET
Current five-year plan sees new production plants brought on stream / Dependence on imports declines / International producers see sales fall short of expectations / Will the next PE flood come in before the shale gas volumes?
 		22.04.2014
UK PLASTICS INDUSTRY
Consumers prefer to squeeze rather than shake / Survey highlights benefits of plastic packaging
 		22.04.2014
SHALE GAS
German anti-fracking groups mobilise against Baltic coast test drilling / US study finds Environmental Protection Agency underestimated methane emissions from gas fields
 		22.04.2014
ADDITIVES
Global market to grow by 4.9% per year in 2020 / Strong plasticisers demand / Allied Market Research study
 		16.04.2014
ITALY
Proposals for preserving the plastics industry / Suggesting creation of large-scale national cluster / Fragmented industry should agglomerate / New study by European House – Ambrosetti
 		15.04.2014
ARTIFICIAL GRASS
Strong growth forecast / M&A activity likely / EMEA is largest market / AMI multi-client study
 		15.04.2014
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
LyondellBasell declares force majeure for PP from Brindisi / C3 increasingly tight as Versalis' cracker appears to be off stream too
 		14.04.2014
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
BASF temporarily shuts down its Ludwigshafen cracker
 		11.04.2014
BRAZIL
Local office of German plastics machinery association holds first management meeting / Cautiously optimistic about 2014 / Germany supplies 25% of all plastics and rubber machinery imports
 		11.04.2014
NONWOVENS
Beyond plastics: European production up 2% year-on-year in 2013
 		11.04.2014
ITALY
EPS consumption drops by 3% year-on-year in 2013 / Construction sector hardest hit
 		04.04.2014
AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
It's all about lightweight construction / German plastics congresses focus on new approaches / Russian market could become even more depressed following Crimea crisis / Poor demand idles assembly plants for several days
 		01.04.2014
PLASTICISERS
Danish report says most phthalate-free plasticisers safe for PVC medical devices
 		31.03.2014
SHALE GAS
Ukrainian crisis raises the temperature of energy discussion / Security of Europe's supply threatened? / Imports of LNG from the US a hot-button topic / Petrochemical chieftains weigh in
 		28.03.2014
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