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Trinseo: Price Decrease for Polystyrene in Europe

03.07.2019 - Trinseo, a global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, and its affiliate companies in Europe, recently announced a price decrease for all polystyrene (PS). Effective July 1, 2019, or as existing contract terms allow, the contract and spot prices for the...

Gurit appoints new Chief Financial Officer

24.06.2019 - Gurit recently announced the appointment of Philippe Wirth as Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Executive Committee. Philippe Wirth has a strong business background in Finance, Business Processes and IT. He will report to Rudolf Hadorn, Chief Executive Officer of Gurit. Prior to joining...

Emirates commits to reducing single-use plastic on board - Eco-friendly paper straws have been introduced this month

24.06.2019 - Emirates has made a network-wide commitment to reduce single-use plastics on board its aircraft. As of June 1st, eco-friendly paper straws have been introduced and all Emirates flights will soon be plastic straw-free. The airline has been working on various long-term sustainability initiatives. In...

Trinseo: Price Decrease for Polystyrene in Europe

04.06.2019 - Trinseo, a global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, and its affiliate companies in Europe announced today a price decrease for all polystyrene (PS). Effective June 1, 2019, or as existing contract terms allow, the contract and spot prices for the products...

British Plastics Federation: Martin Althorpe is new President

04.06.2019 - Martin Althorpe, Technical Director at Epwin Fenestration Division, was elected as president of the British Plastics Federation in succession to Bruce Margetts at the BPF’s AGM held on 15 May. The official handover took place at the BPF’s offices in London, where the now Immediate Past President,...

ExxonMobil Doubles Manufacturing Capacity of Specialty Elastomers at Newport, Wales Plant

16.05.2019 - ExxonMobil said today it has completed an expansion of its specialty elastomers manufacturing plant in Newport, Wales, which doubles the plant’s manufacturing capacity and increases global manufacturing capacity of "Santoprene" thermoplastic elastomers by 25 percent. ExxonMobil also manufactures "Santoprene"...

DSM expands in India with acquisition of SRF Ltd.’s Specialty Materials business

13.05.2019 - Royal DSM announced that it has reached agreement with SRF Ltd., to acquire its Engineering Plastics business, a leading player in India in the development, production and sale of specialty materials. The acquisition is expected to close in Q3 2019, subject to customary closing conditions. SRF’s...

Plastics Recyclers Europe: Release of the 2018 review for HDPE and PP packaging recycling capacities

08.05.2019 - With a total recycling capacity of 1.7 million tonnes, rigid, post-consumer and post-industrial polyolefins, in particular HDPE and PP, are in the group of the most recycled streams in Europe. According to the data collected by Plastics Recyclers Europe, the countries with the highest shares of the...

Trinseo: Price Increase for Copolymers in Europe

07.05.2019 - Trinseo, a global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, and its affiliate companies in Europe announced today a price increase for all ABS and SAN grades. Effective May 1, 2019, or as existing contract terms allow, the contract and spot prices for the...

Trinseo: Price Increase for Polystyrene in Europe

03.05.2019 - Trinseo, a global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders and synthetic rubber, and its affiliate companies in Europe recently announced a price increase for all polystyrene (PS). Effective May 1, 2019, or as existing contract terms allow, the contract and spot prices for the products...

Lindner + Starlinger: New Plastics Recycling Facility on Cyprus opened

02.05.2019 - On 19th April 2019 the Cypriot president Nikos Anastasiadis personally inaugurated a new plastics recycling plant in Limassol. Christos Poullaides, Chairman of PCC Recycling, a Poullaides Group company: “It is a dream come true. More than 10,000 tons of plastic waste can now be converted into plastic...

Gurit acquires PET recycling operation in Italy

23.04.2019 - Gurit recently reported that its newly formed company Gurit Italy PET Recycling S.r.l. has signed an agreement to acquire the PET recycling production facilities from Valplastic S.r.l. in Italy for an undisclosed purchase price. Closing of the transaction is expected at the end of May 2019 and is subject...

Mol Group enters into recycled plastic compounding by acquiring Aurora Group

15.04.2019 - Mol Group, Budapest, Hungary, announced that it has signed a sales-purchase agreement to acquire Aurora, a recycled plastics compounder with production plants located nearby automotive manufacturing and plastics conversion clusters in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. Aurora is a medium-size German company,...

Huhtamaki starts flexible packaging manufacturing in Egypt

15.04.2019 - Huhtamaki recently inaugurated its new, state-of-the-art flexible packaging unit in Egypt. The investment marks the company's entry into manufacturing flexible packaging in Africa. The greenfield is located in the greater Cairo area and will serve Huhtamaki's flexible packaging customers in Egypt...

UBE Corporation Europe: Acquisition of Majority Share of Compound Manufacturer Repol

09.04.2019 - UBE Corporation Europe, European consolidated subsidiary of Ube Industries, Ltd., announced that it has decided to acquire Spanish compound manufacturer Repol S.L. and has entered into an agreement for the transfer of shares. Under the agreement for the transfer of shares, UCE acquired majority of the...

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