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Companies

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

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

15.05.2012 LUCITE  EMEA price increase for acrylic glass sheet

15.05.2012 COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES Use of material in packaging to be reduced by 25% by 2020 / All bottles to include recycled and bio-based PET / Sustainability plan published

15.05.2012 POLYONE  Cooperation with Xenia on advanced thermoplastic composites / Distribution agreement in Europe / Lightweighting opportunities

15.05.2012 AXSON Launching new projects across the globe / Plans to double group size by 2016 / André Genton appointed chief operating officer

15.05.2012 RPC Revenue well ahead of last year / Higher level of added-value products / Good cash flow / Superfos integration nearly completed

15.05.2012 ROSTI Swedish injection moulder establishes subsidiary in Malaysia / EUR 3m machinery investment

14.05.2012 NOVA CHEMICALS Follow-up: PS line in Monaca not part of PFB deal

14.05.2012 BRASKEM Net profit plunges 50% in Q1 hit by high naphtha costs / Resins demand improves

14.05.2012 OLTCHIM  Finances turn deep red in 2012 / Profits halved / New management to take over in June

14.05.2012 SK GLOBAL Building new plastomer and elastomer plant in Ulsan

14.05.2012 RPC BEBO FRANCE Custom pot brings extended shelf life to soup-on-the-go

14.05.2012 SIBUR  Launching PP imports to battle tightness in Russian market

11.05.2012 INEOS  Possible sale of two HDPE plants / Increased focus on integrated assets

11.05.2012 NOVA CHEMICALS Letter of intent with insulating buildings specialist PFB for takeover of Performance Styrenics business / Completion expected in H2 2012

11.05.2012 PETROCHINA Construction of mega-refinery joint venture project with Venezuela's PDVSA begins / Project includes two ethylene crackers

10.05.2012 LANXESS  First-quarter 2012 EBITDA up 15% year-on-year / Economic trend more favourable than predicted

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People

11.05.2012 PEOPLE Christopher Murphy appointed CIO at PolyOne

08.05.2012 PEOPLE Nick Stanage appointed Hexcel's new chief operating officer

04.05.2012 PEOPLE George Avdey named CEO of Kuraray America

03.05.2012 PEOPLE PlasticsEurope Deutschland communication head Kurt Stepping retires / Michael Herrmann takes over

27.04.2012 PEOPLE Patrick Mathieu named new CEO of Armacell

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Markets

17.05.2012 GERMANY 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

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

11.05.2012 PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS  Westlake restarts Geismar VCM unit / Site reported to be fully operational

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

10.05.2012 INDIA Supreme Court to consider total plastics ban / Anti-littering effort supported by TV station

10.05.2012 UK RECYCLING Infrastructure must be developed to increase recycling volumes / Clearer labelling needed / Awareness campaign for bottles under consideration

10.05.2012 BIOPLASTICS  New study finds that currently available bio-based plastics are not fully sustainable

09.05.2012 THAILAND  Map Ta Phut accidents prompt government to set up new industry control regime / Explosion at Bangkok Synthetics leaves 12 dead / Dozens hurt as chlorine escapes from Aditya Birla Chemicals' plant

09.05.2012 VINYLPLUS New sustainability initiative on track after first year / Target of 800,000 per year PVC recycling by 2020

08.05.2012 FEEDSTOCK MARKETS  Chinese players sweep in to meet European PA 12 needs / ClickPlastics acts as continental distributor

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Production and Engineering

17.05.2012 ELECTRIPLAST Electrically conductive hybrid plastics range expanded

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

09.05.2012 FERRO SPAIN Masterbatch range of additives and colours introduced in Spain

04.05.2012 AMCOR RIGID PLASTICS Collaboration with Sacmi on development of compression blow forming / First applications in pharmaceuticals packaging / HDPE bottles in production at US site / Food uses envisaged

02.05.2012 PLASMA ETCHING  Anti-reflective films incorporate surface nanostructures / New technology is based on the “moth eye” principle / Continuous process for anti-reflecting polymers

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Industry

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

14.05.2012 BIOPLASTICS Nova-Institut publishes second edition of bio-based plastics and composites business directory

11.05.2012 INTERVIEW German plastics packaging: Ulf Kelterborn, head of IK business association, talks to PIE about plastic bag bans

04.05.2012 MDI  Brazil imposes anti-dumping duties on imports from the US and China / Finance minister announces measures to ease pressure on industrial sector

26.04.2012 PLASTICS AND HEALTH Sweden to ban BPA in baby food packaging from 2013 / EU countries torpedo planned French move

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