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British Plastics & Rubber News - March 19th 2010 -

March 18, 2010 The recession hit Arburg hard, and the German moulding machine manufacturer saw its turnover in 2009 drop 38 per cen...read more

March 10, 2010 Ireland's biggest dairy bottle in-plant operation is being set up this summer by Nampak Plastics. The plant, in part...read more

March 10, 2010 The acquisition of Rosti Technical Plastics by Nordstjernan of Sweden has closed without the addition of the Rosti U...read more

March 10, 2010 Injection mould components supplier DME, which is a division of Milacron, has linked up with another American toolin...read more

March 9, 2010 Global expansion of Nd-BR (neodymium butadiene rubber) is planned by Lanxess with a Eur 20 million investment at thre...read more

March 9, 2010 The organisers of the K2010 exhibition in Düsseldorf later this year are offering discounts on the price of tickets b...read more

March 9, 2010 Ems-Chemie is to expand its polyphthalamide capacity with a new plant for its Ems-Grivory business unit. The plant, c...read more

March 8, 2010 A research project into bio-sourcing acrylics is being set up in France. Arkema has joined forces with the Lorraine R...read more

March 8, 2010 Wheelie bin manufacturer Helesi has sold its British bin manufacturing operation to one of its distributors, Straight...read more

March 8, 2010 The planetary extruder introduced by German filtration specialist Gneuss three years ago for reprocessing PET flake, ...read more

March 5, 2010 The new group director for plastics packaging at Rexam is Malcom Harrison. His career has been spent in the food and ...read more

March 5, 2010 Packaging film prices are going to have to rise under pressure from raw material prices and other rising costs, says ...read more

March 5, 2010 Dow Chemical has a buyer for its styrenics business. It packaged its styrenics interests into Styron last summer as a...read more

March 5, 2010 New targets for the management of plastics packaging waste have brought criticism from trade bodies that they may not...read more