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INTERVIEW “The recyclate gap remains real” / Frank Kurrat and Andreas van de Locht from Interzero explain why packaging manufacturers and brand owners are finding it so difficult to prepare for PPWR	08.07.2025
MAAG Culture change with ROI: why the film finisher is focusing on lean management / Interview with managing director Ansgar Schonlau	17.06.2025
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

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