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FLEXIBLE PACKAGING 

Global sales estimated at USD 228 bn in 2019 / Revival in demand for single-use plastics in future / Smithers Pira report

22.07.2019 Flexible packaging has doubled its sales to USD 228 bn (EUR 203 bn) in the ten-year period to 2019 and is forecast to grow 3.3% annually to reach USD 269 bn in 2024, driven mainly by urbanisation, sustainability, e-commerce and technology. This finding is contained in Smithers Pira’s (Surrey / UK; w...

19.07.2019 AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY  Global car sales down 5% in 2019 / Industry faces consolidation and job cuts / Electric vehicles need one third fewer employees / Plastic content in cars above 30% for first time

18.07.2019 PLASTICS AND HEALTH  EU general court dismisses PlasticsEurope's BPA challenge / Listing as a SVHC and endocrine disruptor under REACH stands

17.07.2019 INDIA  Polyamide market sees growing automotive demand / Domestic processors buy around EUR 350m worth of PA polymers and compounds / AWJ report

17.07.2019 KOMPUESTOS Spanish compounder plans to expand / Compostable resins for single-use applications

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22.07.2019 PLASTICS AND HEALTH ECHA adds four new substances to SVHC list / Two labelled as endocrine disruptors

22.07.2019 OKNOPLAST Expansion of window profiles facility in Kraków

22.07.2019 AKWEL More capacity for automotive hoses in Turkey / Supply to Ford, Renault and Jaguar

22.07.2019 TORAY Production plant for battery separator film planned in Hungary

22.07.2019 BIOPLASTICS  Spanish project creates products made with recycled biodegradable plastics / Industrial and post-consumer waste

22.07.2019 ECONCORE Partnership with Ultrapolymers and DuFor / Recycled PET honeycomb core

19.07.2019 POLYMER PRICES  Engineering Recyclate July 2019: Notations give way across the board / Only recycled polyamide 6.6 and certain rPOM and rPC grades escaping downtrend / Decline set to affect all materials in August

19.07.2019 HENGLI World's largest catalytic PDH plant onstream in China / PP capacity surge

19.07.2019 EMS  Economic slowdown and trade conflicts dampen sales growth in H1 / Flat EBIT forecast for 2019

19.07.2019 NORDMANN Distributor of Kolon Plastic's thermoplastic copolyester elastomers

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