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A 1,500 tonnes pilot plant for the production of PLA – polylactic acid – has been started up in Belgium.
5:58 AM Apr 16th
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Blackburn-based seals specialist Precision Polymer Engineering has been acquired by IDEX Corporation of the USA.
4:19 AM Apr 16th
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Whitaker Technical Plastics has been bought by the parent of black masterbatch specialist Hubron International.
9:04 AM Apr 13th
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Battenfeld Extrusionstechnik and Cincinnati Extrusion have been restructured as Battenfeld-Cincinnati.
4:15 AM Apr 9th
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Rapid Granulator is to wind up its Moditec subsidiary in Lyon, France as part of its restructuring process.
3:40 AM Apr 7th
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Nampak Plastics is to build a £3 m through-the-wall milk bottle plant in Northern Ireland, opening this summer.
11:06 AM Mar 10th
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The acquisition of Rosti Technical Plastics by Nordstjernan has closed without the addition of Rosti's US plants.
10:44 AM Mar 10th
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Wheelie bin maker Helesi has sold its British bin manufacturing operation to one of its distributors, Straight.
4:54 AM Mar 8th
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Ineos is considering moving to Switzerland to pay less tax. The move could save around €450m from now to 2014.
6:14 AM Mar 4th
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A speciality nylon for automotive use to be launched next week by DuPont "improves heat resistance by 30 degC".
12:07 PM Feb 25th
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LyondellBasell is to close one of its Italian polypropylene plants because it is no longer economically viable.
6:52 AM Feb 25th
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Ineos ChlorVinyls is to close its PVC plant at Barry in Wales and cover supply from Runcorn and Newton Aycliffe.
5:33 AM Feb 25th
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SO.F.TER of Italy has bought the Terra brand of TPEs used for the infill of artificial turf systems from DSM.
3:01 AM Feb 15th
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Applications to enter for the Horners' Award for Plastics Design and Innovation are now being taken by the BPF.
10:18 AM Feb 13th
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New technology company Stanelco of Southampton has rebranded its biopolymers business as Biome Bioplastics.
4:09 AM Feb 5th
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Specialist film company Paperfeel has been bought out by its management and renamed Bespoke Polythene Packaging.
4:09 AM Feb 5th
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Confidence in the onset of recovery is still fragile according to the results of surveys from the BPF and CBI.
11:11 PM Jan 31st
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WES Greenstar to build a 20,000 tonnes mixed household plastics recycling plant with funding from WRAP.
11:10 PM Jan 31st
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A legal challenge which could undermine the Irish plastics bag levy is being mounted in the country's High Court.
8:32 AM Jan 30th
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Huntsman is to cease selling to Iran because of what it sees as a risk to its reputation of trading there.
11:20 AM Jan 25th
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