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DOW PLASTICS
Strong volume growth in 1997, but sales short of target / Successful entry into PP / "Greatest challenge" in eastern Germany
 		31.12.1997
SCHMALBACH-LUBECA
Brazil: Acquisition of PET manufacturer / Market growth in Latin America
 		31.12.1997
PRICES TECHNICAL THERMOPLASTICS
POM struggles upward / Pre-coloured ABS holds steady / Increases in store for PC?
 		31.12.1997
PACKAGING MARKET
Study of APET and PETG films market sees consumption of 130,000 t in year 2000
 		31.12.1997
POLYETHYLENE FILM
BPI makes another major acquisition / Low & Bonar film business adds further 40,000 t/y of capacity / Britton Group sold to US firm / Future of its plastics activities unclear
 		31.12.1997
POLYURETHANES
Industry in upwind / Boom in Asia-Pacific / New technologies drive growth / Recycling problems solved / Successful world PU world congress in Amsterdam
 		15.12.1997
EUROMAP
1997 should be record year for injection moulding machine manufacturers
 		15.12.1997
PEOPLE
 		15.12.1997
DANONE
Compostable yogurt cup set for 1998 / Cargill to supply polymer / Converter unknown
 		15.12.1997
EMTEC MAGNETICS
Former BASF business back in the black after Kohap takeover /Ambitious expansion plans
 		15.12.1997
POLYPIPE
Acquisition of Gabo Systemtechnik / First plant in Germany for group
 		15.12.1997
HOECHST TREVIRA
New 130,000 t PET plant onstream in Offenbach / Price hike in December
 		15.12.1997
PANNONPLAST
Stake in Japanese Hungarian subsidiary / 50% growth in Q3 1997 sales revenues
 		15.12.1997
MANNESMANN
Reorganisation of injection moulding machinery companies / Turnover DEM 2.1bn
 		15.12.1997
POINTERS
Ethylene demand to increase by 2%/y
 		15.12.1997
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