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Ganesha Ecopet: Indian PET recycler increases bottle-to-bottle capacities - Two new Starlinger plants

10.09.2024 - The Indian PET recycling specialist Ganesha Ecopet is increasing its PET bottle-to-bottle recycling capacity to a total of 42,000 tonnes per year with two Starlinger systems. According to the machine manufacturer, the company aims to recycle 25 per cent of all used PET bottles in India by 2026. The...

Trinseo: Price Increase for Polystyrene and Copolymers in Europe

03.09.2024 - Trinseo, a specialty material solutions provider, and its affiliate companies in Europe, recently announced a price increase for all polystyrene (PS), ABS and SAN grades. Effective September 1, 2024, or as existing contract terms allow, the prices for the products listed below will increase as follows:...

Mauser Packaging Solutions: Acquisition of a South African manufacturer of plastic drums

05.08.2024 - Mauser Packaging Solutions, a global manufacturer of industrial packaging and provider of solutions and services for the entire life cycle of packaging, has acquired a company in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, for the manufacture, sale and supply of plastic drums, including large rigid plastic...

Trinseo: Price Increase for Polystyrene and Copolymers in Europe

05.08.2024 - Trinseo, a specialty material solutions provider, and its affiliate companies in Europe, recently announced a price increase for all polystyrene (PS), ABS and SAN grades. Effective August 1, 2024, or as existing contract terms allow, the prices for the products listed below will increase as follows:...

Ambiente: Portuguese recycler produces high-quality recycled pellets from washed agricultural film and detergent bottles - Starlinger system

23.07.2024 - The Portuguese plastics recycling company Ambiente S.A. produces high-quality odour-treated recycled pellets from washed agricultural film and detergent bottles on a Starlinger recycling system of the type ‘recoStar dynamic 165 C-VAC’. The Starlinger system was commissioned in June 2024 at Ambiente's...

Polyvantis: Price increase for „Plexiglas“ and „Europlex“ films

16.07.2024 - Effective August 1st, 2024, Polyvantis GmbH will increase the prices for its PMMA based film products, which are marketed under the trademarks „Plexiglas“ and „Europlex“. The increase will be twelve percent in Europe, Asia, Africa and Pacific, as far as permissible under existing agreements.

Wittmann Group: Indian headquarters moves to new location

09.07.2024 - In order to support the growth of the Wittmann Group in India and to better cover the current space requirements, the headquarters of Wittmann Battenfeld India will move to a new company building on 1 July 2024. The new building comprises a total of 5,000 square metres of office and production space,...

Trinseo: Price Decrease for Polystyrene in Europe

02.07.2024 - Trinseo, a specialty material solutions provider, and its affiliate companies in Europe announced today a price decrease for all polystyrene (PS) grades. Effective July 1, 2024, or as existing contract terms allow, the prices for the products listed below will decrease as follows: "Styron" and "Styron...

Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2024: Winners announced in Amsterdam

21.06.2024 - The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2024 were recently announced at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. For the first time in the seven-year history of the awards, the judges announced two Plastics Recycling Ambassadors as well as the four product and two innovation category...

Röhm: Price increase for MMA und GMMA

19.06.2024 - Effective July 1st, 2024, Röhm GmbH announces a price increase for "Meracryl" MMA (methyl methacrylate) and "Meracryl" GMAA (glacial methacrylic acid) in Europe. As agreements allow, the increase is: "Meracryl" MMA: 300 Euro/mt "Meracryl" GMAA: 300 Euro/mt

Weima Maschinenbau: Kay Schulte is the new CSO

17.06.2024 - Kay Schulte is the new CSO of the Weima Group from Ilsfeld. In his new role as Sales Director of the Weima Group, Kay Schulte was responsible for the leading trade fairs NPE 2024 and Ifat 2024 for the first time. He has been with the shredding specialist for almost 20 years and has previously looked...

Starlinger: Austrian mechanical engineering company with record turnover

13.06.2024 - The Austrian company Starlinger & Co Gesellschaft m.b.H. is extremely positive about the past financial year: the globally active mechanical engineering company has reported the highest turnover in the company's history to date at just under EUR 400 million - a doubling of turnover compared to 2016....

Telko: Strategic acquisition of Polyma Kunststoffe

10.06.2024 - The Finnish company Telko expands its plastics business to Western Europe through an acquisition of Polyma Kunststoffe GmbH & Co KG in Hamburg, Germany. The acquired company is a distributor of engineering plastics. "The transaction strengthens our engineering plastics business and opens new markets...

Trinseo: Low Price Decrease for Polystyrene in Europe

04.06.2024 - Trinseo, a specialty material solutions provider, and its affiliate companies in Europe announced today a price decrease for all polystyrene (PS) grades. Effective June 1, 2024, or depending on existing contract terms, the prices for the products listed below will decrease as follows: "Styron" and...

Smurfit Kappa acquires Bag-in-Box plant in Bulgaria

04.06.2024 - Smurfit Kappa, a global provider of sustainable packaging solutions, has announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Artemis Ltd., a Bag-in-Box packaging plant located in Shumen, Bulgaria. Artemis focuses on food and beverage packaging and makes the bags for Bag-in-Box products as well as films...

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