Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry. It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe, one of the leading content providers ...

Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry. It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe, one of the leading content providers ...

Following 18 months of preparation, the 14 May general assembly of the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (APME, B-1160 Brussels; www.apme.org) approved plans to establish a new ...

Specialty US packaging and merchandising provider, Chesapeake (Richmond, Virginia, USA) has acquired the Northern Ireland business of Boxmore International (Ennis House, Enterprise Way, Hightown ...

Germany’s RKW Group (Frankenthal; www.rkw-group.com), which bills itself as Europe’s leading manufacturer of high quality PE and PP films, has inaugurated its new USD 30m plant for hygiene plastic ...

A lack of orders for offshore wind turbines with a previous standard rotor-blade length of 85 m is forcing Vestas Wind ...

Envalior said its new Tepex composites based on PEI and PPS have respective heat deflection temperatures of 210°C and 275°C. Suitable to substitute metals in moving parts, the German producer expects ...

Will new vehicles have to contain at least 25% of plastics recycled from post-consumer waste? (Photo: PantherMedia/mihtiander) Setting ambitious targets for recovered ...

In reaction to the fastest-paced surge in petrochemical feedstock prices in recent memory, Dow Europe (Horgen / Switzerland; www.dow.com) says it will discontinue market index formula pricing in its ...

Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry. It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe, one of the leading content providers ...

The discussion about recycling end-of-life vehicles is having major reverberations at present. And, as usual, no one is prepared to bear the costs. The pressure to achieve closed cycles, however, is ...

German distributor Nordmann (Hamburg; www.nordmann.global) has launched its own product line for antioxidants and UV stabilisers. Called “Norantox”, the range includes four antioxidants and three UV ...