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PLASTIC PACKAGING
US growth outpaces paper packaging demand
 		09.03.2009
GERMAN PLASTICS CONVERTERS
Industry ends 2008 on a positive note / Packaging performs best / Outlook for 2009 is troubled
 		05.03.2009
ITALY
Machinery production and trade hit by recession / Bleak 2009 predicted / Assocomaplast forecasts
 		03.03.2009
ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODES
First OLED TVs in Germany / Displays are getting bigger / OLED lights coming soon / New lighting concepts offer opportunities for plastics converters
 		25.02.2009
ALCAN
Flexible Packaging segment sells French plant to Spanish company PlastiEnvase
 		23.02.2009
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Start up of delayed Saudi Arabian petrochemicals project set for end of March / Cracker and PE units
 		20.02.2009
PLASTICS MACHINERY
German manufacturers predict 20% order slump in 2009 / Crisis year will follow record sales
 		20.02.2009
INEOS VINYLS ITALIA
Minister saves PVC deal between Ineos and Safi / Last-minute reprieve for Italian petchems sector
 		17.02.2009
VIETNAM
Plastics production in its infancy / Five major petchems complexes under construction or planned / Many small plastics converters / High energy and material consumption due to outdated machinery
 		17.02.2009
ITALY
New round of talks on Ineos Vinyls Italia / Insolvency petition not yet filed / Minister Scajola intervenes
 		13.02.2009
ITALY
Collapse of PVC sector imminent? / Chain reaction threatens chemicals sector after deal between Ineos and Sartor falters
 		11.02.2009
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Dubai exchange again delays plastics futures launch
 		11.02.2009
PLASTICS PROCESSING IN POLAND
Central European country leads market growth / Consumption levels pass Scandinavia / More than 2.3m t of thermoplastics processed / New AMI report spotlights over 1,000 companies
 		10.02.2009
GERMAN PLASTICS INDUSTRY
Recession casts its shadow as economy tanks / Readership survey mirrors deterioration of business in H2 2008 and a subdued outlook for 2009 / Consumers of semi-finished products provide slight ray of hope
 		09.02.2009
PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS
Economic horizon lightens in Asia / Signs of feedstock prices bottoming out / Expensive coal leads China to rethink some projects / Will economic stimulus packages create supply bottlenecks?
 		30.01.2009
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