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27 January 2012
Significant improvements in revenues have been reported by plastics packaging converter RPC Group for the half-year (ended 30 Sep 2011) due to the inclusion of Superfos and an 11 per cent increase in sales on a like-for-like basis.
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26 January 2012
New bottle-contents screening equipment, currently under trial in a number of countries, has just passed its European civil aviation security tests for a type B standard 2 Liquid Explosives Detection System (LEDS), paving the way for airports to relax the existing restrictions on passengers carrying bottled liquids.
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25 January 2012
Bemis Co has reported a rise in 2011 full year net sales to US$5.32 billion from $4.84bn a year earlier, boosted by acquisitions and increased selling price but offset by lower unit sales volume. During the year flexible packaging accounted for $4.75bn of net sales.
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24 January 2012
Husky Injection Molding Systems is to sell Injectoplast, the former closure injection moulding operation of KTW, to Alpla Holding of Austria.
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24 January 2012
Australasian soft drinks bottler Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) has officially opened a new, NZ$15 million (US$13.8m) PET blow moulding and filling line at its site in Woolston, just outside Christchurch, New Zealand.
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24 January 2012
A European court has ruled that claims made by a plastics packaging manufacturer regarding the environmental performance of the canmaking industry were inaccurate, and must be removed from promotional literature.
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19 January 2012
A new consortium set up by the Singapore Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) says that it plans to develop next generation plastics that promise to keep packaged products fresher and surfaces better protected. The work will be carried out in co-operation with a group of industry partners.
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18 January 2012
Recycling firm Regain Polymers has announced ambitious growth plans in the UK after it secured a £1 million ($1.5m) investment in additional capacity and acquired a competitor.
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17 February 2012
Packaging manufacturer DS Smith is to buy the recycled packaging operations of Swedish firm Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget (SCA) for €1.6 billion ($2bn) to extend its European operations.
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17 January 2012
Recycling and environmental technology supplier Enval has secured additional funding for the commercialisation of its microwave induced pyrolysis technology to recycle plastics and aluminium laminate packaging.
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16 January 2012
A British University is joining forces with waste solutions company Cynar to help commercialise the latter’s technology that transforms plastics waste into diesel.
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13 January 2012
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has ended a biodegradable plastics joint venture with Metabolix citing uncertainty over the venture's cost and rate of market adoption. Up to 1,000 jobs could be lost.
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12 January 2012
Two polypropylene lines will be shut down by LyondellBasell in Wesseling, Germany, by the middle of this year. The lines are among the company's smallest and oldest PP units and have a combined capacity of 90,000 tonnes per year.
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10 January 2012
North American private equity firm CI Capital Partners has acquired the operations of specialty plastics packaging company The IntraPac Group, which provides packaging solutions to the personal care and pharmaceutical markets. Terms of the deal were undisclosed.
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10 January 2012
BASF and Sinopec have inaugurated the $1.4 billion second phase of their integrated petrochemical site in Nanjing, bringing chemicals to the China market that will support the development of more sustainable local industries.
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| Monday, January 09 | | · | ROHRER BAGS BUCKELL PLASTIC |
| Thursday, January 05 | | · | STYRON OPENS EUROPEAN OPERATING CENTRE |
| · | PREGIS APPOINTS CEO AND SELLS UNIT |
| · | FABOZZI GETS TOP JOB AT PLASTICS TECHNOLOGIES' EUROPEAN UNIT |
| Wednesday, January 04 | | · | DAVIS-STANDARD UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP |
| Tuesday, January 03 | | · | MAJOR ASPIRATIONS FOR CLIFTON PACKAGING WITH INVESTMENT |
| Friday, December 23 | | · | EXPANSION FOR REXAM'S PERSONAL CARE OPERATIONS |
| Thursday, December 22 | | · | BRASKEM PRESSES AHEAD WITH BIO-BASED POLYPROPYLENE |
| Wednesday, December 21 | | · | SAUCY SUCCESS FOR SLEEK STUDENTS |
| Monday, December 19 | | · | FOOD WASTE FUND LAUNCHED BY WRAP |
| · | HUNTON NAMED CEO OF MBA POLYMERS |
| · | GERRESHEIMER INVESTMENT TARGETS FIRST CLASS DELIVERY |
| · | KITCHEN WASTE BAG DEAL FOR BIOPLASTICS PRODUCER |
| Thursday, December 15 | | · | MAUSER OPENS IBC LINE TO SATISFY REGIONAL DEMAND |
| · | PLANTBOTTLE GENERATION TWO IN DEVELOPMENT |
| Wednesday, December 14 | | · | OPERATION PVC ANNOUNCED BY TOY GIANT HASBRO |
| · | POLYMER STABILISER DEAL ANNOUNCED |
| Tuesday, December 13 | | · | THREE-YEAR STRATEGIC REVIEW COMPLETED BY HUHTAMAKI |
| · | INJECTION MOULDING MACHINERY MAKER TARGETS THE YUGOSPHERE |
| · | CHINA IN SANNER'S HANDS WITH PLANT EXPANSION |
| Monday, December 12 | | · | PROCESSING TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL ACQUIRED BY FOUNDERS |
| · | BRAZIL APPROVES ECO-ONE ADDITIVES FOR FOOD CONTACT |
| Friday, December 09 | | · | FDA TO MAKE A DECISION ON BISPHENOL A |
| Wednesday, December 07 | | · | MERCURY TARGETS BIG CHILL |
| Monday, December 05 | | · | COURTAULD 2 SIGNATORIES WELL ON COURSE TO REACH REDUCTION TARGET |
| Friday, December 02 | | · | ECONOMIC OUTLOOK CAUSES DONGMING HENGCHANG TO BACKTRACK ON DEAL |
| Thursday, December 01 | | · | BRITVIC DEVELOPS FRUIT SHOOT IN NORTH AMERICA |
| · | BRASKEM AND FKUR EXTEND PARTNERSHIP |
| Friday, November 25 | | · | LESS ON TOP WITH ISAP LAUNCH |
| Wednesday, November 23 | | · | INDIA FIRST LOCATION FOR NORNER OUTSIDE NORWAY |
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