News Desk

February 2010
Ineos to close Barry PVC plant	-	News Desk
Parasolid added to Delcam's Toolmaker design software	-	News Desk
New Erema handles more heavily contaminated film	-	News Desk
Are you running your chillers on illegal refrigerants?	-	News Desk
Arkema claims a first for universal carbon nanotube masterbatch	-	News Desk
Bayer in research agreement to further polycarbonate car glazing in Japan	-	News Desk
New agency for visual inspection machines	-	News Desk
Worldwide expansion planned in antioxidants	-	News Desk
Lateral thinking accelerates polymer R & D	-	News Desk
Confidence grows in German packaging industry	-	News Desk
New training centre builds continuity from the old	-	News Desk
Korean PET-Gs to be sold by Velox	-	News Desk
Italian TPE producer expands its sports flooring capabilities	-	News Desk
Entries invited for the Horners' Award	-	News Desk
German machinery sales slump 'not as bad as expected'	-	News Desk
Oxo-bio additive from Sweden	-	News Desk
Biopolymers company rebrands	-	News Desk
Management buy-out at specialist film producer	-	News Desk
Polymer training centre to remain in Telford	-	News Desk
Engel and Arburg play host in March	-	News Desk
Treofan quits cast PP film	-	News Desk
Gabriel-Chemie takes control of its German joint venture	-	News Desk
Keep up to date with research and technology on the SPE website	-	News Desk
Standard plans unique identifiers for gas pipe	-	News Desk
Standard components moulder expands locally and into the USA	-	News Desk
Partial judgement on nylon trade secrets claimed by both sides	-	News Desk
Dow figures show increased demand for basic plastics	-	News Desk
Eurograv takes on Reifenhäuser representation	-	News Desk
Sunoco buy gives Braskem a US bridgehead	-	News Desk
Recyclers demand reforms to maintain sustainability of plastics recycling	-	News Desk
Business confidence surveys show things are looking up, but only just	-	News Desk
WES Greenstar to build mixed household plastics recycling plant	-	News Desk
January 2010
Bayer carbon nanotube plant 'world's biggest' – but not for long	-	News Desk
Irish supermarket takes bag tax to court	-	News Desk
Banks take over Linpac	-	News Desk
Plastics waste WLTM recycler	-	News Desk
Detailed quality data planned for thermoformer heaters	-	News Desk
Film heats food in the microwave	-	News Desk
One for all and all for one at Arrk	-	News Desk
Biopolymer producer pitches to the USA	-	News Desk
European outlet for Honeywell nylon barrier films	-	News Desk
Learn more about conductive materials	-	News Desk
Huntsman embargoes sales to Iran	-	News Desk
DSM invests in coatings, both traditional and futuristic	-	News Desk
Research focus on energy-efficient machine drives	-	News Desk
Mitsubishi augments its two-component moulding machines by selling Engel's	-	News Desk
NatureWorks heats up PLA	-	News Desk
Technology centre plan reflects Cinpres' freedom to focus on development	-	News Desk
Change at the top at Ferromatik Milacron	-	News Desk
Post-consumer carpets could yield reprocessed polypropylene	-	News Desk
You don't have to make it to make it	-	News Desk
Radici disposes of part of its TPE business	-	News Desk
Strategic cooperation in flame retardants	-	News Desk
Albis adds American purging agent	-	News Desk
K-Tron is sold to coffin maker	-	News Desk
What price colour matching?	-	News Desk
Dow extends optical media PC distributorship to Europe	-	News Desk
Brazilian boost for Gerresheimer insulin pen business	-	News Desk
Management changes to meet growing demand at Teknor Apex	-	News Desk
DSM makes strategic US investments	-	News Desk
Off to a good start	-	News Desk
More petrochemicals expansion in Qatar	-	News Desk
Pelletron to assemble equipment in Europe	-	News Desk
Rexam rationalises in the USA	-	News Desk
Cable covering resists fire without sacrificing installation ease	-	News Desk
Wolverhampton College buys PTL training business	-	News Desk
US recyclers issue guidelines for testing materials with degradable additives	-	News Desk
Microwave tyre recovery said to be more efficient than pyrolysis – and self-powering	-	News Desk
Radici seeks US expansion	-	News Desk
Autodesk puts Moldflow in the hands of a reseller	-	News Desk
December 2009
Name change for Elastogran companies	-	News Desk
Healthcare buy for PolyOne	-	News Desk
Chemtura plans PVC additives disposal	-	News Desk
LinPac Packaging MD returns	-	News Desk
Plantic tightens starch supply for biopolymers	-	News Desk
Tods moves mass transit	-	News Desk
New additives range comes to Britain	-	News Desk
Ticona buys a boost for Celstran LFT	-	News Desk
Braskem adds technology to support bio-polypropylene project	-	News Desk
Borealis pulls out of rotomoulding materials	-	News Desk
New management at KraussMaffei extrusion	-	News Desk
French support bioplastic bags for compostable waste	-	News Desk
Thai plant to increase Purac's presence in biopolymers	-	News Desk
DecaBDE flame retardant to be discontinued by Chemtura	-	News Desk
PC sheet manufacturers aim for business boom in India	-	News Desk
British acrylics specialist moves into Asia	-	News Desk
DSM invites dialogue on innovation	-	News Desk
Arkema process for million tonne Chinese PVC plant	-	News Desk
EC approves Amcor/Alcan merger, with conditions	-	News Desk
New chairman and logo for PMMDA	-	News Desk
More investment by Borealis at Linz research HQ	-	News Desk
How Amcor will look after Alcan integration	-	News Desk
Clariant buys Russian masterbatch producer	-	News Desk
Colloids buys Impact Colours	-	News Desk
Solvay bids for bigger stake in Thai vinyls company	-	News Desk
Husky increases its presence in India	-	News Desk
Turbine blade mould buy will make China Gurit's biggest manufacturing base	-	News Desk
Competition shows value of recycled plastics packaging	-	News Desk
Moretto puts its whole range on display	-	News Desk
Plastics packaging turnaround in Germany	-	News Desk
Recession has cost plastic product manufacturers £1·3 billion in lost profits, says report	-	News Desk
New bag association chairman hits out at Welsh tax	-	News Desk
Packaging blow moulder invests for further growth	-	News Desk
Now Rhodia goes bio for nylons	-	News Desk
Ferromatik Milacron seeks further cost cuts to counter halving of orders	-	News Desk
Teijin focuses on automotive business	-	News Desk
German PET packaging company opens in Britain	-	News Desk
Rosti Technical Plastics is sold	-	News Desk
Cancer group calls for a ban on polycarbonate baby bottles	-	News Desk
Schulman to distribute Solvay fluoropolymers	-	News Desk
Moulding materials from mixed household waste plant opens in Holland	-	News Desk
Albis adds biopolymers in Britain	-	News Desk
LyondellBasell to shut German PP line	-	News Desk
November 2009
Sandretto links with Summit for ancillaries	-	News Desk
National Composites Centre to be set up in Bristol	-	News Desk
Tetra Pak to use bio-sourced polyethylene	-	News Desk
UK takes the lead in new Sandretto sales and support structure	-	News Desk
RPC raises profits and plans further structural cost savings	-	News Desk
Youth parliament debates plastics and the environment	-	News Desk
Gurit sells joint venture to focus on its mainstream activities	-	News Desk
Bayer to make PC sheet in India	-	News Desk
More growth for Gabriel-Chemie	-	News Desk
Qatar now a source of LLDPE	-	News Desk
Gwalia adds injection blow and PET to container/closure package	-	News Desk
European Commission ponders Amcor/Alcan deal	-	News Desk
Borealis research centre emphasises the importance of infrastructure	-	News Desk
Solutia to quit some European rubber accelerator products	-	News Desk
Korean researchers cut the cost of making PLA	-	News Desk
Reliance Industries bids for LyondellBasell	-	News Desk
Expanded tooling support for technical profiles	-	News Desk
Expansion in Middle East antioxidant production	-	News Desk
Ford invests in 4,000 tonne moulding machine	-	News Desk
Superfos seal of approval for Symphony oxo-degradables	-	News Desk
New European focus for China's Haitian	-	News Desk
NPE blows out the Windy City	-	News Desk
Bayer buys British medical materials specialist	-	News Desk
Superfos sells out in the USA	-	News Desk
Growth in Latin America for Trelleborg	-	News Desk
Single focus on polyurethanes	-	News Desk
Rigid PVC recycling shows a healthy increase	-	News Desk
Huhtamäki selling Australian rigid packaging business	-	News Desk
New chief executive named for Rexam	-	News Desk
Artificial calcium carbonate brings benefits as a filler	-	News Desk
Rexam sells Petainer business	-	News Desk
PVC stabiliser suppliers fined for price fixing	-	News Desk
New chairman for PAFA	-	News Desk
Sekisui Alveo expands its foams business	-	News Desk
Arkema adds EVOH to multi-layer film package	-	News Desk
Rapid biopolymer growth could 'technically' reach 90 per cent substitution	-	News Desk
Garlock buys third gasket company in 12 months	-	News Desk
US materials handling company appoints UK agent	-	News Desk
Companies invest to expand rubber reclamation	-	News Desk
Arkema to cull PVC plant	-	News Desk
Borealis unifies sales to automotive customers	-	News Desk
Rapid restructures to mitigate effects of recession	-	News Desk
Rondol MD quits after less than a year	-	News Desk
BPF prepares for more recession and energy talks	-	News Desk
Single source of service for ancillary equipment	-	News Desk
Timetable set for Welsh plastic bag tax	-	News Desk
New man in charge of Dow Europe	-	News Desk
Next-tec chief executive explains how PTL is a victim of a pensions battle	-	News Desk
October 2009
Training company PTL goes into administration	-	News Desk
Expansion at Rondol as sales double	-	News Desk
After the Eglu, the Beehaus scoops Horners' Award	-	News Desk
Mould cavity induction heating processes combine at RocTool	-	News Desk
Bottle award meets its Nemesis	-	News Desk
British hot runner control company bought by Mold-Masters	-	News Desk
Untimely materials price increases 'jeopardise plastics processing'	-	News Desk
Lowe sails back to ARRK as MD	-	News Desk
Recession, what recession?	-	News Desk
Orders lift enough for Bayer to put its people back to work	-	News Desk
Increased investment in British PLA research	-	News Desk
REACH expert network set up by EuPC	-	News Desk
Move and expansion for AEI Compounds	-	News Desk
PL to represent Conair	-	News Desk
Machinery manufacturers hit hard and pinning hopes on 2010	-	News Desk
Fabric reinforcement for injection moulded elastomers	-	News Desk
New structure for chiller company	-	News Desk
Energy-saving development aid for blow moulders	-	News Desk
Arkema plans to get its own back	-	News Desk
Co-operation brings BASF a bio-source for biodegradable polyester	-	News Desk
Plastic bottle recycling increases, but may not be enough	-	News Desk
PLA shows cost-benefits in melt-blown non-wovens	-	News Desk
100 years of Dunlop Aircraft Tyres	-	News Desk
September 2009
Companies cash in on CCL claw-back – but time is running out	-	News Desk
Another Chinese plant for Trelleborg	-	News Desk
BASF to double Far East sales by 2020	-	News Desk
Ex-PAFA chairman to be next chief executive	-	News Desk
Solvay to boost plastics by selling pharmaceuticals	-	News Desk
Rubber processor gets live-in testing lab	-	News Desk
Ireland plans to double bag tax	-	News Desk
Film products company is sold	-	News Desk
Sidel hits 2,000 bottles/mould/hour	-	News Desk
K-M invests to synchronise painting with production	-	News Desk
Investment boost for BPI Ardeer plant	-	News Desk
Quick change between liquid and pellet masterbatch	-	News Desk
Now you can use liquid colour to blow mould HDPE	-	News Desk
Nitrile rubber 'flows like oil'	-	News Desk
Carbon nanotube production to be expanded by Arkema	-	News Desk
New elastomer lab for Dow	-	News Desk
Ineos Nova to shut Dutch PS plant	-	News Desk
German plastics distributor opens up in Britain	-	News Desk
Successor for Wenning at Bayer...but not just yet	-	News Desk
BASF cuts another slice out of styrenics	-	News Desk
Carrington LDPE plant to close	-	News Desk
Management buys packaging thermoformer out of administration	-	News Desk
Masterbatch producer expands across Europe	-	News Desk
Automotive decline tips moulder into administration	-	News Desk
BASF to consolidate nylon 6 production	-	News Desk
Huntsman to shut Australian styrenics plant	-	News Desk
Arkema alloys PA and PO with a nanostructure	-	News Desk
EC to investigate PET dumping	-	News Desk
Teijin makes a spectacle of bio-plastics	-	News Desk
Joined by laser	-	News Desk
Film and packaging company invests in North Wales	-	News Desk
More rationalisation in Arkema's vinyls business	-	News Desk
Huntsman hopes to buy bankrupt titanium dioxide producer	-	News Desk
Life cycle study shows biodegradable plastics least efficient in rubbish bags	-	News Desk
Holloid now wholly owned	-	News Desk
August 2009
Demag links with Sepro for robot supply	-	News Desk
Wavin slows sales decline as building industry 'remains challenging'	-	News Desk
Recycling body calls for curb on waste exports to China	-	News Desk
New man takes over as Milacron exits bankruptcy	-	News Desk
Bag-making take-over	-	News Desk
'Paternoster' mould cuts machine complexity for multi-component moulding	-	News Desk
Reifenhäuser buys Kiefel Extrusion	-	News Desk
Schulman opts for Maxximum torque	-	News Desk
European Bioplastics claims 'an attempt to confuse'	-	News Desk
Don't wait until the day shift	-	News Desk
New all-electric injection machine series to be introduced by Wittmann Battenfeld	-	News Desk
Research into wood replacement from mixed waste	-	News Desk
Environment, efficiency and legislation drive changes to tyre rubber compounds	-	News Desk
New phone numbers for the PMMDA	-	News Desk
Acrylics joint venture planned in Saudi Arabia	-	News Desk
Grant aid for West Midlands recyclers	-	News Desk
Amcor bids to buy the bulk of Alcan Packaging	-	News Desk
Contact for Churchill temperature controllers	-	News Desk
Film converter invests to replace capacity lost in fire	-	News Desk
Holloid investment pays sales dividends	-	News Desk
Another Huhtamaki plant is sold	-	News Desk
Food contact endorsement for rPET producer	-	News Desk
'Where has government training funding gone?' asks PTL director	-	News Desk
Freeze drying makes conductive foams	-	News Desk
Axion puts recycling technology into drum transport reclaim scheme	-	News Desk
New MD at medical moulder	-	News Desk
DuPont Teijin consolidates PET film production	-	News Desk
Polycarbonate ink/film combination makes coloured security cards	-	News Desk
Arkema picks up specialities in Dow divestment sale	-	News Desk
rHDPE milk bottles now in supermarkets	-	News Desk
Trans-Atlantic tooling co-operation	-	News Desk
Five-machine all-electric cell added by Sovrin Plastics	-	News Desk
Assembly specialist expands into automation	-	News Desk
PET association warns of the risks of mixing PLA bottles into the recycling stream	-	News Desk
July 2009
Temperature control firms combine	-	News Desk
Oxo-degradable producer hits back at European Bioplastics' attack	-	News Desk
European Bioplastics attacks oxo-degradable additives	-	News Desk
More job cuts likely as plastics firms struggle with liquidity	-	News Desk
Short time working hits a third of German plastics packaging companies	-	News Desk
Plastic bag use halved in three years, but the Welsh and Scots want more	-	News Desk
Engel 'acts like a bank' with loans to buy its machines	-	News Desk
Cut your Climate Change Levy by 80 per cent – but you need to act quickly	-	News Desk
Belgian compounding plant to further SABIC's automotive ambitions	-	News Desk
Reusable packaging to be tested in supermarkets and DIY stores	-	News Desk
US/Dutch biopolymer link-up looks at non-food bio-sources	-	News Desk
Bayer names WhitChem for functional films	-	News Desk
Where the recession hit, and how hard	-	News Desk
Polymers show is cancelled	-	News Desk
SABIC goes sustainable	-	News Desk
Engineering PLA is given a further boost	-	News Desk
The Boy Bus is back	-	News Desk
Now DSM adds a bio-based nylon	-	News Desk
Ferromatik Milacron to ship moulding machines to China under multi-machine contract	-	News Desk
Nova pulls out of engineering grade SMA and Polyscope aims to pick up the business	-	News Desk
Expansion at Crumlin PET film plant	-	News Desk
US dryer manufacturers sue each other over patent infringements	-	News Desk
Research project aims to trim energy and resources from synthetic rubber production	-	News Desk
New chief executive at SATRA	-	News Desk
BASF lays out its plans to absorb Ciba	-	News Desk
Campaigns aim to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative	-	News Desk
Coperion slims down its top management	-	News Desk
Biesterfeld takes on distribution of Ineos Nova PS	-	News Desk
Studener leaves Battenfeld Extrusion	-	News Desk
Gerresheimer technical moulding business is sold	-	News Desk
HNBR re-engineered to resist biofuels	-	News Desk
Cargill once again owns all of NatureWorks	-	News Desk
Austrian extrusion equipment suppliers form 'all in one' unit	-	News Desk
European demand drives French PP compound expansion by Exxon	-	News Desk
Twin screw flow research yields results for software development	-	News Desk
Top changes at PMB	-	News Desk
Netstal goes into the 'revised machinery' business	-	News Desk
Industry gets behind biopolymer research	-	News Desk
Huhtamäki sells another rigid packaging company	-	News Desk
Define your use of chemicals now to avoid more REACH declarations	-	News Desk
Bayer unveils 2,300 tonne test machine for polycarbonate glazing	-	News Desk
Singapore postponement buys Lanxess time to develop new butyl technology	-	News Desk
Milacron sale to investors is approved	-	News Desk
Prove oxo-degradables are sustainable, says EuPR	-	News Desk
Rapid buys Chinese granulator company	-	News Desk
June 2009
More nylons from renewable sources	-	News Desk
Dow and PolyOne tie up automotive deal	-	News Desk
Merquinsa and DuPont co-operate on TPU	-	News Desk
Husky invests in PET education and awareness	-	News Desk
Modular unit enables PET recycling in your plant	-	News Desk
German machinery orders at bottom of decline, says VDMA	-	News Desk
BASF to make part of PS shutdown permanent	-	News Desk
Invista moves into nylon engineering polymers	-	News Desk
Euromap brings injection moulding energy comparison standard up to date	-	News Desk
German production of Zhafir injection machines draws closer	-	News Desk
Bottlemaking Award entries are now open	-	News Desk
AWS adds hot wash PET reclaim to Hemswell facility	-	News Desk
Plan your planning for next year	-	News Desk
Inergy to build another fuel systems plant in China	-	News Desk
Name change for biopolymer producer	-	News Desk
'All the big names' back the K fair despite the recession	-	News Desk
Bodycote Testing becomes Exova	-	News Desk
RPC backs rigid packaging for growth	-	News Desk
Borealis turns on new high flow PP reactor	-	News Desk
WRAP offers £2 million aid to recycle non-bottle packaging	-	News Desk
Injection moulding scrap reduction research shows positive signs	-	News Desk
New name for packaging company	-	News Desk
Polycarbonate film has laser-read security	-	News Desk
Welsh Assembly grant boosts bottle recycling in Wales	-	News Desk
BMC/SMC maker doubles capacity with Menzolit purchase	-	News Desk
Dutch centre planned for thermoplastic composites research	-	News Desk
More Kuwaiti PE on line	-	News Desk
European association targets energy saving	-	News Desk
BASF to close Spanish EPS plant	-	News Desk
Dow Corning bases silicone sales on the internet – with distributor support	-	News Desk
SML pitches cast PET as an improvement on cast PP film	-	News Desk
Oxo-degradation "bad for plastics recycling"	-	News Desk
New member for KM management board	-	News Desk
BPF aims to keep mermaids happy	-	News Desk
Testing service for polymer performance and additives	-	News Desk
Wavin secures debt without CVC investment	-	News Desk
Bio-bag replacements for PE have a second useful life	-	News Desk
Enter now for the Horners' Award	-	News Desk
Chinese sourcing for PTFE producer	-	News Desk
Increased investment in bio-sourced propylene	-	News Desk
More rigid plastics operations go at Huhtamaki	-	News Desk
Despite the downturn Engel opens its doors to innovation	-	News Desk
May 2009
Sumitomo invests in Demag and sells out in India	-	News Desk
Engineering plastics swap planned by DSM and Mitsubishi	-	News Desk
Elastomer heal thyself	-	News Desk
60 year old film lines to be pensioned off	-	News Desk
Ex-ICI Pakistan PTA business is sold	-	News Desk
Sandretto UK focuses on core moulding machine business – and sells one at PDM	-	News Desk
PVC compounder invests in customised mixer	-	News Desk
Carbon filler promises better-than-metals heat dissipation	-	News Desk
Coke goes greener by bio-sourcing its bottle PET	-	News Desk
Corrugator companies quit competing	-	News Desk
Four times ForTii	-	News Desk
New chief executive for Basell	-	News Desk
KraussMaffei sells on eBay	-	News Desk
Ashland to move Modar production	-	News Desk
Lacey to lead Sandretto sales	-	News Desk
Arkema plans North American cost cutting	-	News Desk
Briton gets top job at Sumitomo Demag	-	News Desk
Restructure likely at Bayer and a return to profitability this year	-	News Desk
Dow contemplates sale of European rubber business	-	News Desk
BPF seminar focuses on reducing costs and improving performance	-	News Desk
SABIC to add more polymers for local processing	-	News Desk
LyondellBasell cuts more polyethylene	-	News Desk
Campaign planned to correct unbalanced perceptions of the role of plastics	-	News Desk
Chinese market for scrap plastics is still important	-	News Desk
Rexam plans cost-cutting restructure	-	News Desk
Mitsubishi to boost its semi-finished engineering materials by buying Quadrant	-	News Desk
Quality assurance frees scrap plastics from waste management rules	-	News Desk
Wavin to call for more shareholders' cash	-	News Desk
Milacron agrees asset sale but the offer is still open	-	News Desk
Add a metallised finish with back moulding	-	News Desk
Further investment by DSM as it waits to sell its rubber businesses	-	News Desk
Wittmann adds another foothold in Eastern Europe	-	News Desk
Olympics seek assurances that PVC will be recycled	-	News Desk
Change at the top at KraussMaffei UK	-	News Desk
April 2009
BASF plastics hammered with 'no sign of a reversal'	-	News Desk
Another 800,000 tonnes of Saudi polyethylene comes on line	-	News Desk
Churchill TCUs live again	-	News Desk
Teijin to shift emphasis to regain profits and move up-market	-	News Desk
Barwell goes global with Chinese manufacturing	-	News Desk
Climate change tax relief at last for plastics processors	-	News Desk
New name in LFT	-	News Desk
DuPont extends Distrupol distribution	-	News Desk
Tessenderlo warns of cut-backs	-	News Desk
Pipe producer expands by buying a competitor	-	News Desk
More investment in rPET packaging	-	News Desk
Sandretto sales head goes solo with hot runners	-	News Desk
Expanded capacity for PE pipe grades	-	News Desk
Research planned into recycling PP for food packaging	-	News Desk
Vita swaps equity for debt reduction	-	News Desk
SABIC strengthens its position in automotive LGFPP	-	News Desk
Speciality nylon and gas injection keep designer chair sturdy but lightweight	-	News Desk
BPF aims to bring understanding on bio- and degradable plastics issues	-	News Desk
Rosti to remain with Møller - Mærsk	-	News Desk
Top swap at Borealis	-	News Desk
BASF men in charge at Ciba	-	News Desk
Green light for the next stage of Borouge's PE and PP expansion	-	News Desk
Another Japanese company plans polystyrene exit	-	News Desk
Hungarian PVC business for sale	-	News Desk
New plastics magazine for the Middle East	-	News Desk
LyondellBasell steps up cost reduction with 5,000 jobs	-	News Desk
UK first for big, handled, PET bottles	-	News Desk
Film extruders invest for expansion	-	News Desk
BASF/Ciba to sell light stabiliser business	-	News Desk
French LDPE plant to close	-	News Desk
Japanese polystyrene producer to shut down	-	News Desk
Laminate manufacturer invests for future expansion	-	News Desk
Green Footprint aims to reduce carbon footprint	-	News Desk
Solutia names buyer for its nylon business	-	News Desk
March 2009
Three British car part plants close	-	News Desk
Rexam shows the power of packaging in a recession	-	News Desk
Natural oil polyol process developed by Bayer	-	News Desk
Bayer sells its testing lab	-	News Desk
Crates and pallets exception to heavy metal recycling rules is renewed	-	News Desk
Carbon nanotube acetal goes into commercial production	-	News Desk
New technology to replace HFC blowing agents	-	News Desk
BASF adds to plant stand-downs	-	News Desk
New president for the PMMDA	-	News Desk
Bayer invests in Indian polyurethanes	-	News Desk
EC moves against heat stabiliser cartel	-	News Desk
Another buy for Eurocell as it adds Recovinyl-certified recycler	-	News Desk
'Over-ambitious' STV to close	-	News Desk
Feel like a muppet? Then get on yer bike	-	News Desk
New name for Industrial Copolymers	-	News Desk
CET invests in efficiency to prepare for the recovery	-	News Desk
'Scrapping premium' incentive to buy a new Engel machine	-	News Desk
Chemtura seeks bankruptcy protection	-	News Desk
Cost cutting hybrid machine stars as Arburg opens Eur multi-million customer centre	-	News Desk
Demag Hamilton starts the year with £1 million+ orders	-	News Desk
Ampacet names Albis as UK distributor	-	News Desk
Impact confirms details of Saudi testing contract	-	News Desk
Call for Britain to follow USA and withdraw PC babies' bottles	-	News Desk
Korean additives producer opens Belgian distribution centre	-	News Desk
US tie-up adds carbon nanotube epoxies for Arkema	-	News Desk
New technology plant makes more uniform EPS bead	-	News Desk
WRAP invites tenders for Scottish recycling plants	-	News Desk
Masterbatch supplier to offer bespoke colour optimisation	-	News Desk
Carbon nanotube compounds in development at PolyOne	-	News Desk
Research suggests PET bottles may leach hormone disruptors	-	News Desk
UPM restructures to be there when the economy rallies	-	News Desk
Bio-based bag carries the food home and the waste to the composter	-	News Desk
10 tonne compact injection machine added by Boy	-	News Desk
Test equipment companies now in the same stable	-	News Desk
Milacron to sell its assets to repay debt and raise working capital	-	News Desk
New polymer plants come on line	-	News Desk
Dow and Rohm and Haas set a new date for the wedding	-	News Desk
Expansion in product development for PET stretch blow	-	News Desk
Jobs and pay to be cut by Eastman	-	News Desk
Turkish granulator builder appoints UK/Ireland agent	-	News Desk
Improved gear R & D at Victrex	-	News Desk
Arkema names UK carbon nanotube distributor	-	News Desk
TPE production focused on medical devices	-	News Desk
New man on Hennecke board	-	News Desk
Four-year deal secures Palram's PVC sheet	-	News Desk
Filtrona to sell US extrusion business	-	News Desk
Holloid swims against the stream of depression	-	News Desk
New chief at Hozelock	-	News Desk
February 2009
Retailers beat carrier bag reduction target	-	News Desk
The greening of the Easter bunny	-	News Desk
Rexam invests in Mexico	-	News Desk
Dublin exhibition is cancelled	-	News Desk
Royal Mail encourages companies not to use plastic envelopes	-	News Desk
Abu Dhabi company bids for Nova Chemicals	-	News Desk
Separation success means biomaterials don't contaminate recycling streams, says NatureWorks	-	News Desk
Polystyrene bottle 'is lightest ever'	-	News Desk
Husky to stop building moulding machines in Luxembourg	-	News Desk
German machinery sales to dive, but VDMA is positive about the potential for recovery	-	News Desk
DuPont switches Vespel distribution	-	News Desk
Thompson Technik rotomoulding plant is revived	-	News Desk
Dow to close LDPE plant	-	News Desk
Bag ban planned for Wales	-	News Desk
Graham buys into Indian blow moulder	-	News Desk
Support services aid PET bottle innovation	-	News Desk
Carrington PE unit to be stood down	-	News Desk
Huntsman puts Dutch MDI plant on ice	-	News Desk
DSM pushes PA4T closer to commercialisation	-	News Desk
Rubber moulder expands	-	News Desk
Investment in development of low pressure moulding foams	-	News Desk
Magna buys Cadence European business	-	News Desk
New man in charge at Rondol	-	News Desk
Arkema sells Italian PVC compounder	-	News Desk
Polyketone specialist is bought by Arkema	-	News Desk
BPF unites EPS representation	-	News Desk
Middle East plastics futures trading delayed again	-	News Desk
Middle East reactor-to-sheet PET plant starts up	-	News Desk
Mr Playmobil dies	-	News Desk
Dow says rushing Rohm and Haas merger would put both companies' existence at risk	-	News Desk
Italian machine sales declined last year and are still falling	-	News Desk
Automotive suppliers need support too, says EuPC	-	News Desk
Roto-moulding research seeks to shorten cycle times	-	News Desk
Scots aim to do their own plastics recycling	-	News Desk
Arrk moves mouldmaking away from Teesside	-	News Desk
January 2009
Biodegradable PET bottle 'is also fully recyclable'	-	News Desk
LyondellBasell sets up local supply for global medical market	-	News Desk
Recycling adds to global warming, says Defra adviser. Oh no it doesn't, says WRAP	-	News Desk
EC hands out fines for oil hose cartel members	-	News Desk
Industrial Copolymers is sold	-	News Desk
Precision tooling orders reward investment and recruitment	-	News Desk
BPF puts anti-recession proposals to the Bank of England to avert substantial job losses	-	News Desk
Redundancies and plant closures continue	-	News Desk
Procap adds second closures moulder in a month	-	News Desk
The brakes go on Dow's takeover of Rohm and Haas	-	News Desk
Bayer ramps up carbon nanotube production	-	News Desk
Battenfeld and Wittmann to combine in Wellingborough	-	News Desk
Greiner quits composite cans to increase focus on plastics packaging	-	News Desk
Dutch partners aim to produce bioplastics without sacrificing food resources	-	News Desk
Arburg adds another country to its world map	-	News Desk
Medical LDPE series reintroduced 'by popular demand'	-	News Desk
Site announced for expanded automotive plastics recycling plant	-	News Desk
£5 million investment puts recycled products company on the road to a string of plants	-	News Desk
More jobs go at Wavin	-	News Desk
Centralised materials handling on demonstration at PTL	-	News Desk
Plant for innovative lightweight packaging planned for Tyneside	-	News Desk
New structure for Chemtura	-	News Desk
Chinese plastics processors likely to fall back to 10 per cent growth	-	News Desk
BASF sees no let up in demand depression, while Braskem plans an ethylene restart	-	News Desk
Micro-electronics demand triggers expansion of Japanese carbon nanotube production	-	News Desk
Lanxess throttles back butyl as demand weakens	-	News Desk
Olefins plant to restart as demand improves	-	News Desk
New chief at Leistritz	-	News Desk
Dow takes a dose of castor oil	-	News Desk
One51 takeover gives AAC resources to buy MGB	-	News Desk
Promens revamps packaging businesses and eyes expansion	-	News Desk
Tighter team for Ferromatik Milacron sales	-	News Desk
Sunoco to close polypropylene plant	-	News Desk
Borealis strengthens automotive development	-	News Desk
FDA green light for Smithers Rapra	-	News Desk
SiOx coated film 'has world's highest water vapour barrier'	-	News Desk
Borouge confirms PP compounds plant for the Chinese car industry	-	News Desk
Rosti injects capital into technical plastics	-	News Desk
New man in charge at Bayer in Britain and Ireland	-	News Desk
Macfarlane Plastics sold to Belgian closures group	-	News Desk
European fund could help un-crunch investment credit	-	News Desk
Interplas registered visitor numbers were up in 2008 – although total attendance slipped	-	News Desk
Plan for volume production of heat-resistant PLA gets underway in Japan	-	News Desk
Ceramic/organic hybrids offer potential for product enhancement	-	News Desk
LyondellBasell seeks US bankruptcy protection while it reorganises its debts	-	News Desk
Dow begins response to Kuwaiti JV collapse	-	News Desk
RPET sheet line is for cost-conscious countries	-	News Desk
Dow sells out of TPUs	-	News Desk
Toray to buy into European automotive CFRP business	-	News Desk
December 2008
Rohm and Haas quick to confirm Dow takeover after K-Dow collapse	-	News Desk
Kuwaitis pull the plug on Dow joint venture	-	News Desk
Swanstone gets brush making equipment agency	-	News Desk
Roto focus at PDM	-	News Desk
Weekly no more	-	News Desk
Urbanek quits full time work at K-M	-	News Desk
PE prices on the up again	-	News Desk
Teknor Apex moves into bioplastics	-	News Desk
PLA for styrenic replacement	-	News Desk
Green light for green PE	-	News Desk
Pay freeze to help Eastman fight the recession	-	News Desk
Extended idling planned for Lanxess German plants	-	News Desk
Recycled PET makes greener tyres	-	News Desk
New material for fuel cell membranes	-	News Desk
KM man heads PMMDA	-	News Desk
Ineos breaks into South American polymer licensing market (updated)	-	News Desk
Banks set to be the losers as Hexion and Huntsman settle	-	News Desk
Eurocell buys specialist building profiles producer	-	News Desk
SABIC moves into UHMWPE	-	News Desk
15 per cent job cuts likely at Brett Martin NI	-	News Desk
Reducing demand triggers 500 job cuts at Chemtura	-	News Desk
Rapid names new agents after Conair collapse	-	News Desk
Plastic Omnium to consolidate bumper production	-	News Desk
SABIC IP adds 1,000 to job loss total	-	News Desk
Colour control investment by ColourTone	-	News Desk
CEO changes in the USA	-	News Desk
17,500 jobs to go as DuPont and Dow slash costs to beat the recession	-	News Desk
November 2008
Conair Europe to close	-	News Desk
BPI to close Stockton films plant	-	News Desk
Solutia combines lower nylon demand with revamp for sale	-	News Desk
PP chair is a design classic	-	News Desk
BASF to cut production across the board as demand plummets	-	News Desk
SABIC/Exxon plan Saudi elastomers project	-	News Desk
Mould man takes charge at Milacron	-	News Desk
Alphacan to sell off PEX pipes division	-	News Desk
Approvals for bottle-to-bottle recycling of PET/MXD-6	-	News Desk
New factory increases plating-on-plastics capacity	-	News Desk
Ineos combines upstream and downstream olefins businesses	-	News Desk
DuPont sues Invista over nylon 66 production	-	News Desk
WEEE-sourced material goes into white goods	-	News Desk
Lucite sold to Mitsubishi Rayon	-	News Desk
It's K time	-	News Desk
Borealis names Basell technology	-	News Desk
Ineos to cut US PP capacity	-	News Desk
'World's biggest' single PP line starts up	-	News Desk
Reduction expands with Scheer buy	-	News Desk
Polystyrene price falls	-	News Desk
"WEEE isn't working"	-	News Desk
SABIC cuts engineering plastics production	-	News Desk
Raising the game for PVC	-	News Desk
Recyclers - REACH affects you as well	-	News Desk
PMB starts on the expansion trail	-	News Desk
Ferlin changes agency	-	News Desk
Plexiglas boost in Russia	-	News Desk
Electricity prices up a quarter in a quarter	-	News Desk
October 2008
More plastics producers report falling profits	-	News Desk
Green plastic trophies for Formula 1	-	News Desk
Bodycote testing business sold	-	News Desk
Material costs, energy and the financial crisis hit Bayer materials profits	-	News Desk
BASF eyes solar panel growth as it buys PU glass encapsulation business	-	News Desk
Nampak doubles contracted volume of rHDPE supply	-	News Desk
PS bottles go into production for dairy products	-	News Desk
Call to arms against plastics bashers	-	News Desk
Briton to become president of the SPE	-	News Desk
Mixed plastics recycler gears up for a higher profile	-	News Desk
Toyota sets target for bioplastics in its vehicles	-	News Desk
Engel sells its 70,000th moulding machine - to a British company	-	News Desk
Canada declares bisphenol A toxic	-	News Desk
European TDI/MDI investment planned by Bayer	-	News Desk
BASF cuts caprolactam production	-	News Desk
Suppliers form a consortium to package PE-X pipe systems	-	News Desk
AWS nails contract for recycled PET from Hemswell	-	News Desk
Chris Hamilton dies	-	News Desk
First REACH hit list targets polymer components and additives	-	News Desk
New MD for Hennecke	-	News Desk
BASF increases Asian capacity for automotive spring aids	-	News Desk
Biocide fights mould growth in wood/plastics composites	-	News Desk
Trexel links with Arburg to promote MuCell	-	News Desk
BASF goes into the biocide business	-	News Desk
Canon to use PLA "with world's highest level of flame retardance"	-	News Desk
Next Interplas in 2011	-	News Desk
Rhodia plans European nylon restructure	-	News Desk
Thinner means cheaper, but still at a cost	-	News Desk
Italian compounder buys	-	News Desk
Arburg adds tech centre in Spain	-	News Desk
Epoxy divestment as Hexion nears Huntsman takeover	-	News Desk
RPC to shed six sites	-	News Desk
Ineos considers closing ageing Grangemouth ethylene plant	-	News Desk
Jobs go at Rehau	-	News Desk
US foams company adds to Filtrona's specialty products	-	News Desk
Bio-sourced PP at pilot scale in Brazil	-	News Desk
BPA fears enlisted to sell Eastman copolyester	-	News Desk
US court rejects Apollo/Hexion bid to scrap Huntsman takeover	-	News Desk
More polystyrene production cuts	-	News Desk
Horners' Award goes to plastic kerbstones	-	News Desk
Sell redundant equipment and materials on line for free	-	News Desk
French operations the latest to fall under Trelleborg axe	-	News Desk
Kreyenborg separates out the IRD	-	News Desk
Medical Dyneema to be made in the USA	-	News Desk
September 2008
Cost-saving acrylics process revealed by Evonik	-	News Desk
New sales director at Hozelock	-	News Desk
PP performance being upgraded in Korea	-	News Desk
Camvac to be sold	-	News Desk
More Ticona investment in China	-	News Desk
US biopolymer company starts its bid to be biggest	-	News Desk
Cutting the environmental cost of composites reinforcement	-	News Desk
Wavin to cut another 200 jobs in Britain and Ireland	-	News Desk
New PE plant for Slovak Republic	-	News Desk
German machinery orders peak	-	News Desk
SIPA to build-in AGR PETWall Profiler	-	News Desk
Shredder overcomes film and filament problems	-	News Desk
Plastic things must cost more - live with it	-	News Desk
Mixed plastics recycling expanded at AWS	-	News Desk
Repsol pushes Sines expansion past Eur 1 billion	-	News Desk
PolyOne and ADM to develop bio-based plasticisers	-	News Desk
PS production cut-back planned by BASF	-	News Desk
Medical flexibles facility opens in Ireland	-	News Desk
Bugs could make PHA from waste bottles	-	News Desk
Closed Loop to build second British bottle reclaim plant in Wales	-	News Desk
Lucite considers sale or flotation	-	News Desk
Speciality compounds expansion by Exxon and SABIC	-	News Desk
New plants bring new polymers, and a new polymer producing zone	-	News Desk
Huhtamaki puts rigid packaging on the block	-	News Desk
August 2008
Investment boost for plastics recycling	-	News Desk
UK/Ireland housing market causes pain at Wavin	-	News Desk
Project to research mixed plastic recycling	-	News Desk
German moulder puts technical division up for sale	-	News Desk
Invista claims DuPont and Rhodia stole secrets	-	News Desk
Rhodia rejects Invista's claim of IP theft	-	News Desk
Battenfeld and Cincinnati extrusion companies under one management	-	News Desk
BASF sweetens up the package for styrenics disposal	-	News Desk
July 2008
Dow to start European PS slow down	-	News Desk
Rohm and Haas buy takes Dow further into specialities	-	News Desk
Sumitomo to base European electric machines on Demag's IntElect	-	News Desk
£3m rPET investment by LinPac	-	News Desk
Gwalia buys tooling capacity	-	News Desk
June 2008
London bottle recycling plant starts commissioning trials	-	News Desk
BASF and Dow to impose major price increases	-	News Desk
Huntsman takeover bid goes into reverse	-	News Desk
Hexion conned us, claims Huntsman	-	News Desk
RPC reported to be considering its future	-	News Desk
RPC bullish despite short term threats from price rises	-	News Desk
Solutia considers selling its nylon business	-	News Desk
Automotive glazing gets a name as a single source solution	-	News Desk
Basell to consolidate PP compounding	-	News Desk
Worldwide PP compound growth planned by LyondellBasell	-	News Desk
Europe's biggest PP compounding plant planned by SABIC	-	News Desk
Big machines and new all-electrics figure in Battenfeld expansion plan	-	News Desk
May 2008
Bodycote testing for sale	-	News Desk
Energy costs send chemicals prices rocketing	-	News Desk
New polystyrene giant opens its doors	-	News Desk
Price fixing rears its head again for Trelleborg	-	News Desk
Profile equipment demand set to fall, says Battenfeld	-	News Desk
Huhtamaki quits rigid packaging in Britain	-	News Desk
New chairman for PAFA	-	News Desk
Growth planned in LFT	-	News Desk
Extrusion support - one out, one in	-	News Desk
April 2008
Canada moves to ban polycarbonate babies' bottles	-	News Desk
Further PET expansion in Oman	-	News Desk
Eurocell buys Plastmo business	-	News Desk
Borouge to expand yet further in polyolefins	-	News Desk
March 2008
Wavin to retrench in Ireland	-	News Desk
PS bottle cuts costs compared with PET	-	News Desk
Linear polyethylene is fully bio-sourced	-	News Desk
More PP and PE grades to come from Ineos at Grangemouth	-	News Desk
Invista sues DuPont over safety and environmental failings	-	News Desk
Macfarlane in discussions to sell plastics business	-	News Desk
Lanxess to increase butyl rubber capacity by a third	-	News Desk
Wittmann buys Battenfeld	-	News Desk
APET sheet to be extruded direct from polymerisation	-	News Desk
Huntsman and Dow mull isocyanate expansion	-	News Desk
Demag name to live on under Sumitomo ownership	-	News Desk
Erkes to leave Demag in Sumitomo reshuffle	-	News Desk
New technology for 'self-healing' rubbers and easy-flow plastics	-	News Desk
The next stage in Chinese expansion for BASF	-	News Desk
Bottle and cap moulder starts investment programme	-	News Desk
February 2008
BPA leaching from polycarbonate increased by hot water exposure	-	News Desk
Sumitomo names the day for Demag acquisition	-	News Desk
Hot runners now from Sandretto	-	News Desk
Regloplas adds chillers	-	News Desk
January 2008
Ticona to invest again in China	-	News Desk
US recycler to build British plant - its biggest yet	-	News Desk
Nampak secures extra supply of rHDPE for milk bottles	-	News Desk
Battenfeld is sold and files for insolvency	-	News Desk
'Constructive' talks over Battenfeld bankruptcy	-	News Desk
Battenfeld sale called off as Adcuram denies wrongdoing	-	News Desk
Eur15 million raised to keep Battenfeld open	-	News Desk
Battenfeld starts to plan for the future	-	News Desk
Gulf plastics futures trading aims to improve on LME	-	News Desk
Demag in takeover talks	-	News Desk
Patent win and financial injection for Cinpres	-	News Desk
December 2007
Cereplast anticipates having the world's largest biopolymer plant	-	News Desk
Dow pools commodity plastics with PIC of Kuwait	-	News Desk
Tinschert changes horses	-	News Desk
Methanol to PP plant planned for the Caribbean	-	News Desk
Raise the quality of waste, and it ceases to be waste	-	News Desk
Huhtamaki sells Portadown plant	-	News Desk
DSM invests in polymers-from-CO2 technology	-	News Desk
November 2007
Wavin to buy Turkish pipe maker	-	News Desk
New copolyesters bring heat resistance and clear, handled bottles	-	News Desk
Nampak goes into bottle-to-bottle recycling of HDPE	-	News Desk
First SkinForm system to go to Korea	-	News Desk
BPI adds agri films capacity	-	News Desk
DSM to expand Chinese compounding capacity	-	News Desk
BASF buys out SABIC IP in PBT joint venture	-	News Desk
Basell to buy Solvay's PP compounds business	-	News Desk
Polymer Training is sold	-	News Desk
October 2007
Partially bio-sourced polypropylene brings energy saving and printability benefits	-	News Desk
Braskem researches bio-propylene as green polyethylene gathers momentum	-	News Desk
Teijin buys half of NatureWorks	-	News Desk
ExxonMobil steps up its presence in engineered polyolefin compounds	-	News Desk
DSM EPDM investment goes ahead despite sale plan	-	News Desk
Castor oil-derived nylon reintroduced by BASF	-	News Desk
September 2007
Automotive seating fabric is totally bio-sourced	-	News Desk
Bayer adds more capacity for carbon nanotubes	-	News Desk
Omani company plans instant domination of the APET sheet market	-	News Desk
'First new polymer this millennium' from DSM	-	News Desk
Bio-sourced polyols are commercialised by Dow	-	News Desk
DSM plans elastomers sell-off	-	News Desk
New head for DSM Elastomers	-	News Desk
August 2007
Reclaimed-content HDPE milk bottle to go into general production	-	News Desk
Borouge to make automotive PP compounds in China	-	News Desk
Automotive glazing JV partners split	-	News Desk
Bayer plans polycarbonate compounding investments	-	News Desk
July 2007
BASF mulls styrenics sell-off	-	News Desk
Hexion outbids Basell for Huntsman	-	News Desk
Demag concentrates machines and manufacturing to boost business	-	News Desk
Alcan to sell its packaging business	-	News Desk
June 2007
Basell to buy Huntsman	-	News Desk
HDPE from 100 per cent renewable sources	-	News Desk
Sepro puts down roots in the Americas	-	News Desk
Ineos buys out Borealis in Norway	-	News Desk
Cartels likely to hit Trelleborg hard in the pocket	-	News Desk
Dow to expand European SSBR	-	News Desk
Songwon plans European additive one-pack plant	-	News Desk
DuPont adds bio-sourced polyol	-	News Desk
Bayer's Chinese polycarbonate expansion delayed: interesting times in the PC business	-	News Desk
GE Plastics opens automotive glazing centre	-	News Desk
SMA bursting out of its traditional boundaries	-	News Desk
Dragon Plastics buys Riverside	-	News Desk
Rexam in talks to buy Owens-Illinois' plastics packaging	-	News Desk
Rexam confirms acquisition of Owens-Illinois plastics packaging business	-	News Desk
May 2007
SABIC buys GE Plastics - allegedly	-	News Desk
Ineos to buy Hydro's PVC and sell its own E-PVC business	-	News Desk
Trelleborg in cartel investigation	-	News Desk
DuPont sets out its stall for technology innovation	-	News Desk
Polypipe to buy Terrain	-	News Desk
Inergy plans new plants in emerging markets	-	News Desk
Gerresheimer to go public	-	News Desk
April 2007
Ticona to make long fibre reinforced compounds in China from next year	-	News Desk
Nova Innovene names leadership team	-	News Desk
Dow and Phillips plan to pool styrene businesses	-	News Desk
Dow to make plastics in Libya	-	News Desk
BASF realigns its nylon portfolio	-	News Desk
Polyscope SMA goes on sale	-	News Desk
Amcor unveils plans for job cuts and plant closures in European flexibles	-	News Desk
March 2007
Akcros Chemicals is sold	-	News Desk
London plant will reclaim PET for food packaging	-	News Desk
Bottle-to-bottle recycling of HDPE milk bottles	-	News Desk
Nova Innovene to absorb North American PS businesses	-	News Desk
Dow rethinks its management structure	-	News Desk
Indian plastics producer reported in JV talks with Dow and Nova	-	News Desk
Retailers take voluntary steps to cut the environmental impact of carrier bags	-	News Desk
Korean additives manufacturer sets up European HQ	-	News Desk
New Krauss Maffei tightens up Mannesmann Plastics Machinery	-	News Desk
Demag chief executive welcomes separation from K-M and Netstal	-	News Desk
SMS sells all its pipe and profile equipment businesses but stays in film and sheet	-	News Desk
New technologies in EPDM are unveiled by DSM	-	News Desk
GE and PetroChina stall planned polycarbonate venture	-	News Desk
Brückner adds pallet stretch wrap with marketing deal	-	News Desk
Rexam quits glass to concentrate on cans and plastics	-	News Desk
February 2007
Ticona extends Chinese investment plans	-	News Desk
Ticona names Chinese UHMWPE site	-	News Desk
Repsol names Spherizone for new PP plant	-	News Desk
Repsol names Azelis for PP distribution	-	News Desk
Ineos to upgrade and expand European polyolefin plants	-	News Desk
Bayer to 'sharpen the focus' of its MaterialScience business	-	News Desk
Films association merger goes ahead	-	News Desk
Irish bag tax increase is confirmed	-	News Desk
Amcor is selling its European PET business	-	News Desk
Nova to boost EPS output	-	News Desk
January 2007
Wilden and Autobar Packaging change hands	-	News Desk
Film equipment companies combine	-	News Desk
O-I considers selling its plastics packaging businesses	-	News Desk
December 2006
Solutia to take control of Flexsys rubber chemicals	-	News Desk
Carbon nanotubes to go into mass production	-	News Desk
November 2006
Sales reverse in major markets dampens Wavin's expectations	-	News Desk
Trelleborg plans Trowbridge closure	-	News Desk
BASF to shut Spanish HIPS plant	-	News Desk
Polyester from plants comes closer at DuPont	-	News Desk
October 2006
SABIC to buy Huntsman's UK polyolefins business	-	News Desk
SMS sells Battenfeld injection and hires former MPM chairman	-	News Desk
Dow pursues polyols from plants aim	-	News Desk
Scots say no to plastic bag tax - again	-	News Desk
Rexam finalises thinwall disposals	-	News Desk
Another non-core Rexam food pack business to go	-	News Desk
Riverside directors take full ownership	-	News Desk
September 2006
Irish bag tax to increase because shock value is wearing off	-	News Desk
Antioxidant partners to separate	-	News Desk
DSM invests in PA46, PA6 and UHMWPE	-	News Desk
August 2006
Glass giants to merge reinforcements operations	-	News Desk
New team to run Jubb	-	News Desk
July 2006
Lucite moves on with its second new technology MMA plant	-	News Desk
MPM chairman is replaced	-	News Desk
Rexam to sell Yate	-	News Desk
Jubb bounces back	-	News Desk
June 2006
San Francisco plans bisphenol and phthalate ban	-	News Desk
Tenders wanted for milk bottle recycling scheme	-	News Desk
SABIC puts Dutch cracker on hold	-	News Desk
Nova to cut costs by splitting off polystyrene	-	News Desk
DSM buys stake in US biomedical plastics producer	-	News Desk
DuPont adds Hytrel to nascent plant-based polyester family	-	News Desk
GE in Chinese polycarbonate joint venture	-	News Desk
May 2006
Western companies increase their presence in China	-	News Desk
Conair sells its US pelletiser business	-	News Desk
Mannesmann Plastics Machinery sold	-	News Desk
Films associations to merge	-	News Desk
New SABIC venture will make the first Saudi polycarbonate	-	News Desk
Geleen SMA plant to restart in new hands	-	News Desk
April 2006
Toray has big plans for PLA films	-	News Desk
Borealis plans R & D expansion	-	News Desk
February 2006
Bidders in talks to buy Huntsman	-	News Desk
Huntsman takeover talks ended	-	News Desk
Huntsman to buy textile effects business from Ciba and sell its US butadiene business	-	News Desk
MPM sells Billion	-	News Desk
Now Arkema has commercial carbon nanotubes	-	News Desk
January 2006
Conair takes over Rapid sales	-	News Desk
Nova to shut PS plant	-	News Desk
BASF, Huntsman may build an even bigger Chinese MDI plant	-	News Desk
December 2005
Tyco sale nears completion	-	News Desk
Tyco plastics business sold	-	News Desk
More UK job losses at Huhtamaki	-	News Desk
Plastic bag tax to be rejected by Scots	-	News Desk
Scottish bag tax put on hold	-	News Desk
November 2005
Battenfeld to shut its Meinerzhagen plant	-	News Desk
New process for carbon nanotubes widens their commercial potential	-	News Desk
BASF and DuPont to commercialise biopolymers	-	News Desk
October 2005
Nova-Innovene slashes EPS capacity	-	News Desk
Ineos buys Innovene	-	News Desk
September 2005
Tyco plastics to go by the end of the year	-	News Desk
Nova joins EPS/PS JV in Mexico	-	News Desk
BASF buys compounding firm	-	News Desk
Polypipe bought by US investment firm	-	News Desk
BP sets out its expectations for Innovene	-	News Desk
K-Tron rationalises its product lines	-	News Desk
August 2005
Starch-based plastic ramps up to 10,000 tonnes capacity	-	News Desk
July 2005
Urbanek joins K-M board	-	News Desk
Skelmersdale follows Leeds as Huhtamaki economises	-	News Desk
June 2005
Chatterjee out of Basell takeover	-	News Desk
Scottish bag tax proposal is echoed around the world	-	News Desk
May 2005
Lanxess increases Nd-PBR capacity and plans new Chinese engineering plastics compounding line	-	News Desk
Basell sold after US government warns against the Iranians	-	News Desk
Piovan paddles its own canoe	-	News Desk
BP and Nova formalise European styrenics merger	-	News Desk
BASF expands biodegradables in its styrenics division	-	News Desk
Bayer's Makrolon capacity to pass 1 million tonnes this year	-	News Desk
BASF bows out of US PS production	-	News Desk
March 2005
Basell sale rumours rise again	-	News Desk
BP olefins businesses to become independent as sell-off deadline nears	-	News Desk
TPG bids again for British Vita as the deadline looms	-	News Desk
Not at that price, says British Vita	-	News Desk
Vita says yes to TPG	-	News Desk
DSM to double Chinese compounding	-	News Desk
Ineos to seal the deal on EVC	-	News Desk
February 2005
Basell takeover speculation hots up	-	News Desk
Carbon nanotube composites agreement	-	News Desk
Vita under attack by American equity company	-	News Desk
Automotive suppliers combine in Europe and China	-	News Desk
Biopolymer producer buys out Dow's interest	-	News Desk
Carbon nanotube composites agreement	-	News Desk
January 2005
Biopolymer blended into computer housing	-	News Desk
BP tightens linear alpha olefin production ahead of sell-off	-	News Desk
DuPont and Dow to carve up elastomers joint venture	-	News Desk
December 2004
BP to make LLDPE faster	-	News Desk
Horners Award for eggsellence	-	News Desk
November 2004
Austrian recycling plant focuses on WEEE scrap	-	News Desk
Solvay to dissolve PE joint venture with BP	-	News Desk
BP quits polystyrene with Nova joint venture	-	News Desk
October 2004
Borealis plans PP expansion and sells out of Portugal	-	News Desk
Speculation over Basell bidders	-	News Desk
Top changes at K-M and MPM	-	News Desk
Kautex is back in packaging	-	News Desk
September 2004
DSM to double Stanyl output	-	News Desk
August 2004
Profits rise in materials manufacturing - but they're still not enough	-	News Desk
July 2004
Focused thinking raises BASF's profits from plastics	-	News Desk
June 2004
Dow to join hands in Kuwait and shut Canadian plant	-	News Desk
May 2004
DuPont and Tate & Lyle harden up biopolymer development	-	News Desk
April 2004
Koch accelerates Invista takeover	-	News Desk
Dow PET expansion to get European subsidy	-	News Desk
BP plans to sell off polyethylene and polypropylene	-	News Desk
SIG sells Kautex and Blowtec	-	News Desk
Scottish bag tax - and other issues - come under fire at PIFA	-	News Desk
March 2004
Lucite ready to slash MMA production costs	-	News Desk
Futures trading to reduce the risk of plastics price fluctuation	-	News Desk
February 2004
BASF joins Toray in Malaysian PBT plan	-	News Desk
December 2003
BASF to buy another US nylon business	-	News Desk
Bayer/DuPont open shared PBT plant	-	News Desk
European Commission fines organic peroxides cartel members	-	News Desk
November 2003
DuPont names the day for quitting the mainstream fibres market	-	News Desk
BASF and Bayer to co-operate in Chinese polyurethane production	-	News Desk
October 2003
Urbanek to leave Engel	-	News Desk
September 2003
DuPont renames outgoing fibres division	-	News Desk
August 2003
DuPont names Koch as possible fibres business buyer	-	News Desk
Synventive rejoins Dynisco companies at Madison	-	News Desk
June 2003
Linpac sold	-	News Desk
May 2003
Borealis restructures its R & D	-	News Desk
April 2003
DuPont in talks to sell fibres business	-	News Desk
Sunoco becomes one of the biggest US PP producers	-	News Desk
January 2003
BASF and Honeywell swap plastics and fibres businesses	-	News Desk
DuPont plans commercial bio-manufacture of PTT	-	News Desk
Borealis plans staffing cuts	-	News Desk
October 2002
SIG buys and sells to focus more on packaging	-	News Desk
September 2002
Nova to mothball Carrington EPS plant	-	News Desk
July 2002
Mannesmann Plastics Machinery - the end of the saga?	-	News Desk
June 2002
Nova plans polystyrene shake-up	-	News Desk
May 2002
Amcor buys Schmalbach-Lubeca	-	News Desk
April 2002
DSM to sell petrochemicals businesses to SABIC	-	News Desk
Rexam sells flexible packaging plants	-	News Desk
Amcor adds more European film companies	-	News Desk
February 2002
DuPont restructures and plans to sell fibres interest	-	News Desk
Polystyrene price increases, and a cut in capacity	-	News Desk
December 2001
Solvay bids for Ausimont	-	News Desk
Solvay mortgages its HDPE interests to buy Ausimont	-	News Desk
K-Tron buys again in Britain	-	News Desk
October 2001
SIG realigns its blow moulding machinery business	-	News Desk
Now SIG revamps its extrusion blow moulding machine business	-	News Desk
Mannesmann Plastics Machinery not sold	-	News Desk
September 2001
Can Apax afford to buy MPM?	-	News Desk
July 2001
Mannesmann Plastics Machinery buyer named	-	News Desk
Netstal sold again	-	News Desk
June 2001
New name for Dynisco Hot Runners	-	News Desk
May 2001
Biopolymer polyesters come closer at DuPont	-	News Desk
March 2001
Borealis/Repsol joint venture scrapped	-	News Desk
February 2001
BPTA splits up to improve polymer training	-	News Desk
January 2001
DSM inches towards the exit	-	News Desk
EU gives new approval for MDKM takeover	-	News Desk
December 2000
PP: Solvay quits and Basell cuts back	-	News Desk
November 2000
Mannesmann Plastics Machinery for sale	-	News Desk
Dynisco split and sold	-	News Desk
October 2000
DSM seeks a partner for its petrochemicals businesses	-	News Desk
K-Tron buys Colormax	-	News Desk
September 2000
Borealis chief to quit	-	News Desk
SIG strips out the Krupp name	-	News Desk
August 2000
Partial green light for Mannesmann sale	-	News Desk
Hydraulics hold up Bosch/Rexroth deal	-	News Desk
Demag to build injection machines in Indian joint venture	-	News Desk
July 2000
Borealis in joint venture talks	-	News Desk
June 2000
A new name in US polypropylene production	-	News Desk
May 2000
Krupp blow moulding machinery business is sold	-	News Desk
March 2000
PP market shake-up is the price for Elenac/Montell/Targor merger approval	-	News Desk
PET investment planned by Schmalbach-Lubeca as suitors gather	-	News Desk
February 2000
Another piece of T & D is sold	-	News Desk
Mannesmann engineering businesses to go solo	-	News Desk
January 2000
Conair owner buys Rapid	-	News Desk
Thompson Plastics buys Plastech	-	News Desk
Mannesmann moves plastics machinery into Demag-Krauss Maffei	-	News Desk
December 1999
Battenfeld now not selling its injection moulding business...but is buying in extrusion	-	News Desk
November 1999
Elenac, Montell and Targor to merge	-	News Desk
October 1999
Nova buys out Shell polystyrene	-	News Desk
T & D goes into administration	-	News Desk
Norsk Hydro looking to quit polymers	-	News Desk
Cumberland sold again and now a sister to AEC Sterling	-	News Desk
Battenfeld injection machine business is sold	-	News Desk
June 1999
Huntsman ICI to get full control of Wilton cracker	-	News Desk
April 1999
ICI's latest move to quit the plastics business	-	News Desk
March 1999
MDI/TDI joint ventures for China	-	News Desk
November 1998
EVC/Norsk Hydro merger abandoned	-	News Desk
October 1998
Shell develops new process chemistry to make PTT a practical polymer	-	News Desk
BASF to buy DSM's ABS business	-	News Desk
September 1998
Chinese built Kautex blow moulder	-	News Desk
July 1998
PVC merger planned by EVC and Norsk Hydro	-	News Desk
May 1998
DuPont focuses on biotechnology for polymer production: addition of PTT to its polyesters could be an early result	-	News Desk
February 1998
BP/Huels styrenics deal is completed	-	News Desk