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FILM RECYCLING
UK´s “WRAP” calls for improved logistics / Packaging report says 71% of waste reusable
 		02.09.2004
BLOW MOULDING INDUSTRY
Consistent growth in European polymer demand / PET and HDPE lead / AMI study
 		02.09.2004
DOW CHEMICAL
Petrochemical jv agreed with Oman firm / Cracker and three world-scale PE plants
 		19.08.2004
UBE ENGINEERING PLASTICS
Production plant for extruded PA in Spain / Enhanced European presence for Japanese
 		19.08.2004
FAURECIA
Earnings up 25% in H1 2004 despite flat auto economy / New plants in three countries
 		19.08.2004
BASELL
Arak Petro licenses technology for PE and PP / Tecnimont and Uhde to handle engineering
 		19.08.2004
DOW
New 50:50 PET joint ventures with Kuwait firm
 		05.08.2004
GUILLIN
French packaging specialist acquires Polish thermoformed PS producer / Net profit down
 		05.08.2004
PVC AND ENVIRONMENT
Fourth progress report from “Vinyl 2010” / Self-imposed European recycling targets all met
 		05.08.2004
AUSTRIA
Record recycling rate for plastics packaging in 2003 / Incineration standard for mixed fraction
 		05.08.2004
ATOGLAS
Cast film production only in Saint-Avold from 2006 / Leeuwarden plant to be shut down
 		05.08.2004
GERMAN PLASTICS MACHINERY
Business better than expected / Record output in 2003 / China now the largest export market
 		05.08.2004
PLASTICS ECONOMY
Poll shows Germans wary despite full order books / Converters brace for higher polymers
 		05.08.2004
UCB
Film division sold to private equity group
 		05.08.2004
AZELIS
Acquisition of UK distributor Pan Polymers / Pan-European service “significantly enhanced”
 		05.08.2004
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