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Interviews
PVC MARKET
“Stability is our prime aim” / “Finding the right balance to protect European industry" – interview with Profine CEO Peter Mrosik on PVC industry challenges
 		11.09.2024
PFAS
“You can assume that our concerns will be heard” – interview with GKV president Helen Fürst on strongly worded PFAS letter to German chancellor Scholz
 		10.09.2024
INTERVIEW
“The government wanted to ban importation of waste, but we said no” / “Inflation aids plastics industry” – interview with Pagev president Yavuz Eroglu
 		29.08.2024
INTERVIEW
“There is massive growth ahead for the recycling industry” – PIE talks to Arpan Dhanuka, MD of UK plastics recycler QC Polymer
 		26.08.2024
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
“Society must finally understand that plastics are a resource” / Interview with MKV's Kai Zies on the state of plastics recycling in Germany
 		08.08.2024
INTERVIEW
“PPWR is an anti-plastics regulation”: PIE talks to André Baumann, managing partner of film manufacturer Verpa
 		15.07.2024
EUROPEAN PIPES MARKET
“There are so many reporting regulations” / SMEs particularly burdened / Teppfa critical of sector's exclusion from sustainable financing / Interview with general manager Ludo Debever
 		29.05.2024
PACKAGING EUROPE
“EU member states can exempt their economies for five years” / Lawyer Christian Alexander Mayer talks to PIE about special national routes for the PPWR
 		09.05.2024
LABOUR SHORTAGE EUROPE
“We do not orient our search in terms of a particular industry, but by types of job most needed” / Online recruiting more difficult for blue collar workers / PIE interview with ZAV spokesman Marcel Schmutzler
 		26.04.2024
LABOUR SHORTAGE EUROPE
“Plastics sector is competing for talents across Europe” / Joint educational programmes needed to hire young people / PIE interview with the MD of EuPC, Bernard Merkx
 		25.04.2024
LABOUR SHORTAGE EUROPE
“We need to recruit from non-EU countries in the long term” / Only half of open positions filled in 2023 / PIE interview with Polyvia COO Jean Chaillet
 		24.04.2024
POLYMER MARKETS
What influence does the conflict in the Middle East have on the supply situation and polymer prices? / Interview with PIE price expert Martin Bäcker
 		30.01.2024
TÖNISSTEINER
Why use PET recyclate for returnable bottles, Mr Mallm? / A PIE interview
 		28.11.2023
CHEMICAL INDUSTRY
Does Adnoc's potential takeover of Covestro mark the beginning of an M&A boom? / PIE interviews M&A expert, Carlos Robles y Zepf
 		09.11.2023
RECYCLING
“Unduly discredited”: BASF's EPS expert Klaus Ries criticises the bashing of the material / An interview with PIE
 		08.11.2023
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