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Infrastructure must be developed to increase recycling volumes / Clearer labelling needed / Awareness campaign for bottles under consideration

Specialty Polymers division offers alternatives to PA 12

Map Ta Phut accidents prompt government to set up new industry control regime / Explosion at Bangkok Synthetics leaves 12 dead / Dozens hurt as chlorine escapes from Aditya Birla Chemicals' plant

Guru Gobind Singh refinery and PP plant officially commissioned

Saudi group sets up joint venture with Turkey's Bayegan / Integrated PP plant to go on stream in Turkey in 2015

New sustainability initiative on track after first year / Target of 800,000 per year PVC recycling by 2020

ICO Polymers' Verolanuova production plant moved to Gorla / New merged Italian site boasts two new lines

Proposal to acquire Georgia Gulf withdrawn / Plans to liquidate all holdings

Construction works for mega petrochemical project kick off / Manufacturing PE, PP and POM from coal

Chinese players sweep in to meet European PA 12 needs / ClickPlastics acts as continental distributor

Ban on landfill for plastics waste takes major step forward / Backing from MEP Gerben-Jan Gerbandy

Brazil imposes anti-dumping duties on imports from the US and China / Finance minister announces measures to ease pressure on industrial sector

2012 likely to see prices continue rising by between 5-20% / Rockwood plans to divest Sachtleben / Supply situation unlikely to improve before 2014-2015

German group confirms plans for new PA 12 plant in Asia / Gregor Hetzke talks to PIE about the recent explosion in Marl and the company's future plans in Asia / Chinaplas exclusive interview

Exclusive European distributor for Shandong Dongchen polyamides as well as Panjin Zhongrun's CoPEEK

Contract to supply Mexican Coca-Cola bottler with 900m bottles per year / Sidel supplies the necessary blow-moulding machinery

US PET water bottle collection rates double over six years / Weights continue to fall / Recycling reaches 680m t in 2010

Spotlight on China's Zhang Mu Tou plastic trading centre in Dongguan / PIE visits regional hub for plastic buying and selling activities / EUR 1.2 bn in annual turnover

Upgrading Geleen's cracker No. 4 / EUR 135m investment

Accelerated Chinese demand spurs new investments / UOP technology selected for two more China propylene projects / Start-ups expected in 2014

French packaging producer acquires Chinese cosmetics activities of TEX R.L.

Completion of Shanghai expansion / South Korea expansion to be ready in 2013 / Full year sales double in Asia

Record number of visitors at Chinaplas 2012 / Rising share in foreign attendees at world's second largest plastics fair / Processing sector focuses on sustainability / Increasingly difficult market environment / Domestic demand needs to grow

Latin America's largest BOPP producer buys new BOPET line purchased from Brückner Machinenbau / Start-up expected in early 2013

Consolidation changes face of European market / Producers react to falling profitability / AMI study