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UK PLASTICS INDUSTRY
From shop floor to top floor / EU leads global raw material imports / Interview with new BPF president Martin Hitchin
02.06.2025
LDPE RECYCLING
Improving flexible packaging reclaim / IKV's Loopcycling project – Interview with Achim Grefenstein
29.05.2025
INTERVIEW
“Neither practical nor fair” / Packaging producer Uwe Fernholz is calling for reform of Germany's Single-Use Plastic Fund Act
01.05.2025
INTERVIEW
German plastics machinery: “Investments are being made with the handbrake on” – Reifenhäuser chief sales officer Marcel Perrevort
30.04.2025
NEWS FROM KI GROUP
K-Profi: Editor-in-Chief Markus Lüling and team celebrate 100th issue of magazine / Interview to mark anniversary
24.04.2025
PLASTICS RECYCLING EUROPE
“An industry that is still fighting has not lost” / Lessons and impressions from PRSE, Amsterdam
04.04.2025
GERMAN PLASTICS INDUSTRY
Are M&As booming in the plastics sector? / Interview with consultant Sinan Ikiisik
06.03.2025
INTERVIEW
Defossilising plastics production: Vioneo CCO Katja Wodjereck talks to PIE about plans to build green polyolefins plant in Belgium and future strategy
27.02.2025
INTERVIEW
“Huge potential for recycling remains untapped” / Conversio managing director Christoph Lindner talks to PIE about the material flows of plastics in Germany
21.01.2025
PFAS / FLUOROPOLYMERS
Is the EU serious about the PFAS ban? / Interview with pro-K expert Michael Schlipf
27.11.2024
PLASTICS RECYCLING EUROPE
EU rules for recycled plastic materials with food contact: “When in doubt, avoid imported goods” / PIE interview with recycling expert Herbert Snell, vice-president of bvse
09.10.2024
INTERVIEW
“We expect up to 15% less turnover” / PIE talks to Thorsten Kühmann, managing director of plastics and rubber machinery at VDMA
04.10.2024
INTERVIEW: FAKUMA
“Ensure economic viability through efficiency” / PIE talks to Bettina Schall, organiser of upcoming plastics trade fair
30.09.2024
PVC MARKET
“Stability is our prime aim” / “Finding the right balance to protect European industry" – interview with Profine CEO Peter Mrosik on PVC industry challenges
11.09.2024
PFAS
“You can assume that our concerns will be heard” – interview with GKV president Helen Fürst on strongly worded PFAS letter to German chancellor Scholz
10.09.2024
INTERVIEW
“The government wanted to ban importation of waste, but we said no” / “Inflation aids plastics industry” – interview with Pagev president Yavuz Eroglu
29.08.2024
INTERVIEW
“There is massive growth ahead for the recycling industry” – PIE talks to Arpan Dhanuka, MD of UK plastics recycler QC Polymer
26.08.2024
CIRCULAR ECONOMY
“Society must finally understand that plastics are a resource” / Interview with MKV's Kai Zies on the state of plastics recycling in Germany
08.08.2024
INTERVIEW
“PPWR is an anti-plastics regulation”: PIE talks to André Baumann, managing partner of film manufacturer Verpa
15.07.2024
EUROPEAN PIPES MARKET
“There are so many reporting regulations” / SMEs particularly burdened / Teppfa critical of sector's exclusion from sustainable financing / Interview with general manager Ludo Debever
29.05.2024
PACKAGING EUROPE
“EU member states can exempt their economies for five years” / Lawyer Christian Alexander Mayer talks to PIE about special national routes for the PPWR
09.05.2024
LABOUR SHORTAGE EUROPE
“We do not orient our search in terms of a particular industry, but by types of job most needed” / Online recruiting more difficult for blue collar workers / PIE interview with ZAV spokesman Marcel Schmutzler
26.04.2024
LABOUR SHORTAGE EUROPE
“Plastics sector is competing for talents across Europe” / Joint educational programmes needed to hire young people / PIE interview with the MD of EuPC, Bernard Merkx
25.04.2024
LABOUR SHORTAGE EUROPE
“We need to recruit from non-EU countries in the long term” / Only half of open positions filled in 2023 / PIE interview with Polyvia COO Jean Chaillet
24.04.2024
POLYMER MARKETS
What influence does the conflict in the Middle East have on the supply situation and polymer prices? / Interview with PIE price expert Martin Bäcker
30.01.2024
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