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Plastics producers raise 2011 output to 20.7m t / Revenues on the rise / Margins pressured by feedstock costs / PlasticsEurope Deutschland predicts “growth interval” in 2012

17.05.2012 German plastics producers wrapped up 2011 on a positive note, industry association PlasticsEurope Deutschland (Frankfurt / Germany; www.plasticseurope.org) has found. “The industry posted good results last year,” association chairman Wolfgang Hapke said during a recent press conference, adding that,...

16.05.2012 POLYMER PRICES  Standard Recyclate May 2012: Only minor gains for producers / Buyers' hold-out in primary market influences secondary sector / Persistently high procurement costs meet order slowdown / First plants idled

15.05.2012 PLASTICS PACKAGING  Detailed 2011 figures for Germany released / Volume sales grow faster than sales by value / Margins pressured by high polymer prices / End markets apply the brakes because of high costs

14.05.2012 POLYMER PRICES  Standard Thermoplastics Trend May 2012: Polyolefins fall on lower feedstocks / PVC stable / PS and EPS cost rises hard to recoup / Lengthening oversupply / Sinking crude notations could trigger more polymer price cuts

11.05.2012 PET PACKAGING  Annual growth of 5% up to 2017 / Asia-Pacific to drive consumption / Bottled water edging out carbonated drinks / Collection issues dog recycling / Barrier coatings are the future / Consolidation gathers momentum / Pira study

Year in Review

Plastics industry braces for fresh surprises and more business as usual in 2012 / Price volatility and economic uncertainty / For some segments 2011 beats expectations / Fracking and plastic bag ban are key issues

As old man 2011 prepares to depart for parts unknown he may have a few words of advice for baby 2012 – the most important being “Keep your head down, kid.” Indeed, the newcomer will need nerves of steel to keep from bending as the financial and political actors go through their typical gyrations and put the rest of the real economy under pressure.

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17.05.2012 POLYMER PRICES  Engineering recyclate May 2012: rPA 6 and rPC prices rise despite slack bank holiday business / Other grades roll over / Plastic scrap still expensive but more readily available / Despite poor margins, prices likely to roll over at the end of Q2

17.05.2012 PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT Pacific Garbage Patch provides bug-breeding grounds / “Threat to the marine environment”

17.05.2012 BRASKEM Mulling new US plant fed by cheaper shale gas feedstock / Decision to be made this year

17.05.2012 ECO PLASTICS Continuum bottle recycling jv with Coca-Cola officially opened / Setting new industry standards for sustainable packaging / New bottles from old within six weeks

17.05.2012 ELECTRIPLAST Electrically conductive hybrid plastics range expanded

16.05.2012 CELANESE  Emulsions price hike in EMEA

16.05.2012 SIEMENS Exhaust gas CO2 as feedstock for new “green” polymer / Cooperation with BASF

16.05.2012 KRATON  Renewed price hike for styrenic block copolymers

16.05.2012 COLORANT CHROMATICS Swiss specialty chemicals group enters distribution agreement with India's Nishigandha Polymers

16.05.2012 RTP Expansion of Ladenburg production plant / Relocating former Clariant compounding line

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