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The UK operations of the Containers division of Plysu (Station Road, Woburn Sands, Milton Keynes, GB – Bucks MK17 8SE) are undergoing a strategic reorganisation between its two manufacturing sites so ...

Alcan Packaging Services (CH-8212 Neuhausen; www.alcanpackaging.com), the plastic packaging division of US aluminium giant Alcan Aluminium Ltd. (Montreal, Quebec / Canada; www.alcan.com), intends to ...

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 ...

Johnson Controls Plastics PET Packaging (Ringlaan 5, B-2960 Brecht) has started up a new plant in Spain to produce PET preforms. The plant is operated by Johnson Controls Plastics (Camino del Sabinar ...

A new plant for the production of amorphous polyester film ("Hostapet") situated in the Weert factory in Holland (Hoechst Holland NV, PO Box 44, NL-6000 AA Weert) has been commissioned for the rigid ...

Cam Elyaf (Cayirova / Turkey; www.camelyaf.com) is planning to build another glass fibre production facility in Balikesir / Turkey, about 150 km north of Izmir, for around EUR 100m. The plant will ...

Tradition-steeped, family-owned Plüss-Staufer AG (CH-4664 Oftringen) will trade in Switzerland in future as Omya AG, just as it has in foreign markets for a number of years. For several decades, the ...

Scientists at Chinese nano-technology specialist Polynova (Suzhou) have introduced a new generation of naturally conductive polymers that can be used not only in antistatic packaging, but also to ...

Compounder and distributor Ravago (Arendonk / Belgium; www.ravago.com) has acquired EPS producers Monotez (Athens / Greece; www.monotez.com) and Eastchem (Izmir / Turkey; www.eastchem.com.tr), which ...

A 10 mm-thick polycarbonate sheet has been added to the "i-LINE" range of construction materials from Bayer Sheet Europe (Darmstadt / Germany; www.bayersheeteurope.com). "Makrolon multi UV 4-wall ...

Eastman Chemical Company (world HQ: Kingsport, Tennessee 37662, USA) plans to increase its annual production capacity for the high performance polymer polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) to 10,000 tonnes ...