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Latest european plastics news

Companies

13.06.2025 RÖCHLING  FY 2024 sales dip nearly 5% amidst weakness across all businesses / Strong demand for composites products in Q1

13.06.2025 BOREALIS  Good year despite tense market environment / Sales of OMV subsidiary increase by 10% in 2024

13.06.2025 SINOPEC  ECI Group technology selected for Ningbo PE project

13.06.2025 MAUSER Industrial packaging manufacturer commissions IBC recycling plant at BASF site in Spain

12.06.2025 TENCATE GRASS  Artificial turf specialist acquires majority stake in competitor Sports & Leisure

12.06.2025 TEKNOR APEX  Takeover of biopolymer specialist Danimer Scientific from insolvency

11.06.2025 WELLMAN INTERNATIONAL  Indorama PET recycling subsidiary files for debt protection / Millions in losses due to high production costs

11.06.2025 PALSGAARD  Doubling of capacities for plant-based polymer additives in Denmark / New food-contact approved additive for polyolefins

11.06.2025 TOMRA  Sorting technology group launches food-packaging reverse vending machine in Paris

11.06.2025 SIKA  Plans for JV with Sulzer / Recycling of roofing and sealing membranes as focus

10.06.2025 UNILIN  EUR 40 mn investment in factory for PIR insulation boards in Poland

06.06.2025 ANTOLIN  Cost-control measures lift auto supplier back to black after 2024 loss

06.06.2025 LYONDELLBASELL  Possible sale of European plants to investor Aequita / Negotiations enter critical phase

06.06.2025 LYONDELLBASELL  Trump's anti-sustainability policy offers opportunities for European plastics industry – Jim Guilfoyle

06.06.2025 EREMA  Recycling machines specialist reports decline in revenue / PPWR lends CEO confidence

06.06.2025 ROSTI  Swedish injection moulder plans new plant in Gislaved

06.06.2025 AMCOR Fully recyclable wet wipe packaging developed in collaboration with Fedrigoni

05.06.2025 DOW CHEMICAL  Share in carbon fibre joint venture sold to partner Aksa Akrilik

05.06.2025 DELTA TECNIC Masterbatch manufacturer obtains French CSTB certification

04.06.2025 EASTMAN  Is a recycling project in Texas on the brink? / Trump administration cancels subsidies for 24 sustainability projects / USD 375 mn grant cancelled

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People

04.06.2025 ADNOC  Former OMV CEO Rainer Seele to head chemicals business

08.05.2025 POLYKEMI Family business prepares for generational shift

29.04.2025 PLASTICS EUROPE Hans Ketelslegers appointed director for sustainable use of plastics

28.03.2025 BASF Helmut Winterling to head Ludwigshafen, Antwerp Verbund sites

06.02.2025 CELANESE Main engineered materials division under new leadership of industry veteran

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Markets

13.06.2025 LOGISTICS  Upcoming end of truce between US, China causes freight rates to skyrocket / Von der Leyen proposes USD 45/bbl price cap on Russian oil

13.06.2025 PLASTICS INDUSTRY EUROPE  PRE, Assorimap call for protectionist measures against imports / SMEs burdened by regulations / Spanish industry disadvantaged by national tax on non-reusable packaging

12.06.2025 UK MANUFACTURING  Trade group demands cheaper electricity / ‘Security of country' at risk / Processors worry about competitiveness

11.06.2025 PACKAGING  Trump's tariffs may play havoc with companies' packaging supply chains – Ecoveritas / Data specialist sounds cautionary note on EPR liability

11.06.2025 HYDROGEN  EC to fund 15 new European green hydrogen projects / Second EHB auction completed

10.06.2025 PETROCHEMICAL MARKETS  Polypropylene: Grupa Azoty plant in Police down again

06.06.2025 EUROPEAN ECONOMY  ECB cuts rates / Eurozone inflation drops below bank target / Growth forecast remains at 0.9% for 2025

06.06.2025 LOGISTICS  Freight rates climb to three-month high / Dispatchers face dilemma due to tariff confusion

05.06.2025 CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE  Poland's plastics industry shows signs of economic recovery / Average order book size growing in Finland

04.06.2025 EUROPEAN CAR INDUSTRY  Lack of rare earths could delay, stop German auto production / Shortage halts some component lines

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Production and Engineering

12.06.2025 CLARIANT Speciality chemicals group launches PFAS-free processing aids ahead of K 2025

02.06.2025 ARTAPLAST  Launch of mono-material PP food packaging including lid solution

28.05.2025 JOKEY Launch of PP sealed cup for Nesco

27.05.2025 FAERCH Danish recycler launches recycled PET lid for hot beverages

06.05.2025 LUCOBIT German compounding specialist develops EBA compounds with up to 80% calcium carbonate

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Industry

13.06.2025 POLYMERS FOR EUROPE ALLIANCE  Best Polymer Producer Awards winners announced at EuPC annual meeting / Industry leaving Europe overarching issue

12.06.2025 PLASTICS ACADEMY Plastics Hall of Fame inducts six Europeans / Official honour to take place during K 2025 trade fair in October

11.06.2025 TRADE WAR  US, China agree to reduce export restrictions; rare earths to be supplied again / Trump says relationship with China is ‘excellent'

11.06.2025 PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT Development banks invest EUR 3 bn in Clean Oceans Initiative 2.0

10.06.2025 PFAS  Sustainable healthcare group warns of forever chemicals inaction / 150 European medical professionals write to EU Commission

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