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EDITORIAL
After a political earthquake, the plastics industry sits somewhere between relief and trepidation
08.11.2024
EDITORIAL
Caution: Risk of strangulation! Why plastics processors need more effective representation of their interests
01.07.2024
EDITORIAL
"Woe is me! The cap is hanging from the bottleneck!"
20.06.2024
EDITORIAL
In between ambitious and absurd: Sibur's change in strategy
03.04.2024
EDITORIAL
A clear position is not an end in itself: the plastics industry must also take a firm stand
26.01.2024
EDITORIAL
Who gives a hoot about climate? / UN conference without, then with fossil fuel phase-out
19.12.2023
OPINION
"It's about more than just PET," says Daniel Stricker
01.12.2023
FAKUMA
Talks among the like-minded in days of crisis / A look back at the industry event in Germany
25.10.2023
EDITORIAL
Are we even ready to eliminate single-use plastics?
29.09.2023
COMMENT
Greed isn't cool: Why the plastics industry should be careful not to stifle the budding economy
17.08.2023
EDITORIAL
Viessmann deal sends warning signal to German plastics converters
02.05.2023
EDITORIAL
Of red lines and crossing them
01.03.2023
COMMENT
PRE president Ton Emans reacts to MEPs' vote in favour of tighter waste shipment rules: “Plastics waste exports stop a key measure to keep valuable resources in the EU”
07.02.2023
EDITORIAL
A lot of zeros, but not much behind them – why the announcements of polymer corporations must be put into perspective
27.01.2023
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
“The plastics industry faces a decisive year in 2023”: Comment by Ingemar Bühler of Plastics Europe Deutschland
12.12.2022
EDITORIAL
Is Germany's proposed law to fund SUP recovery a long overdue move or a bureaucratic monster?
17.11.2022
EDITORIAL
The pivotal quarter ahead
22.09.2022
COMMENT
Chemical recycling: Not nearly enough hype / Why all recycling processes are important for a circular economy / A reply from Ingemar Bühler, managing director of Plastics Europe Deutschland
07.06.2022
EDITORIAL
The perversity of war: Russia's billion-dollar export surplus
19.05.2022
PLASTICS MARKETS
“If we comply with this dictated system, there will only be losers in the medium term – because with no market there is no profit” / Letter from a group of plastics processors to their own industry
05.05.2022
EDITORIAL
We didn't start the fire …
21.03.2022
EDITORIAL
Things could always be worse: War in Ukraine has thrown the plastics industry completely out of step
10.03.2022
EDITORIAL
Energy surcharges: exploitation or necessity?
18.10.2021
COMMENT
Pro EU plastics tax: “The plastics tax – an important impulse” / Tomasz Mikulski, ML Polyolefins
04.09.2020
COMMENT
Con EU plastics tax: “We need a European plastics Marshall Plan” / Hannes Meier, M2 Consulting
04.09.2020
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