The curtains go up / Düsseldorf at the centre of the plastics world for a week / Circular economy features strongly at this year's K / Partnerships along the entire value chain gain importance

GKV corrects annual forecast downwards / TecPart association sharply criticises populistic aberrations

UK government offering webinars for European companies / Expectations of trade across border

Traditional meets intercultural: Meraxis is looking for its place in the world of distribution going forward / One-stop shop for virgin material and recyclate / Swiss family-owned businesses as the core

Picoplast is new partner for PA and PBT compounds distribution in Benelux

German distributor plans to market more propylene

Swedish subsidiary Kemi-Intressen now Nordmann Nordic

Distribution of PBT from Sipchem in the Benelux region and Germany

Distribution of polyamide barrier resins from DuPont in EMEA and Brazil

Investment in chemical recycling partnership with Quantafuel

Polymers from chemically recycled waste / Dutch firm Fuenix Ecogy provides technology

Major maintenance and expansion of ADN plant in Chalampé has begun / Start to the new year

Scotland renews fracking moratorium / No permanent ban

Polyethylene production restarts in Libya

Collaborative project to improve plastics traceability / Partnership with blockchain start-up Circularise

Potential closure of acrylonitrile plant in UK

Russia September 2019: Market remains subdued / Polyolefins largely stable / PVC and PET give way

China Standard Thermoplastics September 2019: PE notations decrease / Speculations after attacks in Saudi Arabia lead to price fluctuations / Propylene plant in the Pearl River Delta online

North America September 2019: Only polyolefins show small increases / PVC, PS and engineering plastics move predominantly sideways / Automotive slump and trade war have an impact / Storm and drone attacks hold up prices in the short term

China Engineering Thermoplastics September 2019: Autumn brings in the high season / Domestic benzene, styrene and paraxylene costs head upwards / Many polymers follow suit / Crude oil price has negative impacts

Standard Thermoplastics Trend October 2019: Market mood remains gloomy / Buyers still holding back / Producers not always able to attain feedstock reference prices / Indications point to declining trend

Standard Recyclate October 2019: Prices still under pressure / Rollover only for rPP and rPS / Demand remains weak / Recyclers reduce output / Measures for more price stability in November

Engineering Recyclate October 2019: Prices roll over / Demand very weak for the time of year / Many recyclate producers have their backs to the wall / Gap between primary and secondary PA is too small

Polyolefins in cautious uptrend / Support from outages in European production

Composites/GRP September 2019: Cautious market leaves ortho resins prices unchanged / Demand remains slack / No movement for glass fibre products

EU waste exports decline again / Indonesia sends further contaminated containers back and introduces waste segregation

US is world's largest contributor / Plastics scrap import bans exacerbate problem / Verisk Maplecroft report

Ocean Cleanup vehicle is now catching and retaining plastics / Design work commences on a new full-scale system / Recycling on land