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NORTH AMERICA
Rigid plastic packaging market to grow by 2.6% per year to 2017 / Flexible packaging growth predicted at 2.3% / Smithers Pira study
 		27.11.2012
EUROPEAN FLEXIBLE PACKAGING
Consumption grows by 2% in 2011 / Customers pay the price of rising costs / PCI Films report
 		12.11.2012
US PLASTIC CONTAINERS
Resin demand to exceed 6.4m t in 2016 / Market to reach USD 32 bn / Food and pharma applications expected to see fastest gains / PET and HDPE account for a combined 86% of production in 2011 / Freedonia report
 		05.11.2012
FRANCE
Flexible packaging producers face “difficult economic environment” / Business slowdown in 2012
 		22.10.2012
WORLD PROTECTIVE PACKAGING
Demand set to rise by 6.3% annually to 2016 / Increasing manufacturing output and consumer spending fuel gains / Asia Pacific will record highest growth / Freedonia report
 		11.10.2012
PLASTICS PACKAGING
German plastics packaging association IK predicts economic decline in Q4 / Warns of rising feedstock costs, supply shortages
 		09.10.2012
AUTOMOTIVE MARKET
Suppliers suffer the brunt of declining sales figures / Growth driver China shows signs of weakness / Will the lull drag on until 2015?
 		02.10.2012
MEDICAL PLASTICS
Asia and Latin America drive global growth / US plastic devices market to expand by 5.2% per year to 2018 / Higher increases forecast for Europe / Pharmaceutical packaging gains in importance
 		05.09.2012
MEXICO
Automotive industry demand for engineering plastics expected to grow at nearly 10% per year / PC and PA lead the list
 		03.09.2012
AUTOMOTIVE MARKET
Southern Europe's auto industry loses out in the crisis / Expert prophesies "long-term damage" / 25% of suppliers may not survive the crisis / Germany's Center for Automotive Research issues world market forecast
 		30.08.2012
ELECTRICAL / ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY
Dynamic global market / German E&E association predicts 5% worldwide growth / BRICS countries drive
 		27.08.2012
RIGID PACKAGING
Global demand to rise 6.4% annually up to 2016 / Plastics continue to account for largest market share / China will see greatest growth / Freedonia study
 		02.08.2012
FIBC
Imports to EU at 3-year high in 2011 / Latest EFIBCA data
 		30.07.2012
PLASTIC CARRIER BAGS
EU ends anti-dumping measures against China and Thailand / Cites lack of cooperation from European manufacturers
 		25.07.2012
EUROPEAN CABLE INDUSTRY
Production accounts for 4% of value of resin output / Consolidation continues / PVC remains dominant material / Germany leads demand / AMI report
 		18.07.2012
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