The Dutch Pillo-Pak Sentinel Group (PSG, Coldenhovenseweg 89, NL-6961 EC Eerbeek) have introduced their newly developed mailing bag "Airkraft Bag-in-Bag" as a world novelty. The cushioned bag consists ...

Wavin Repox BV (J.C. Kellerlaan 3, PO Box 5, NL-7770 AA Hardenberg) has announced that it is to start producing glass fibre reinforced polyester pipes at its production site in Hardenberg, the ...

Effective 1 October, the Hoechst group (HQ: D-65926 Frankfurt) founded a new company to incorporate its orientated polypropylene (OPP) films business, in advance of its planned joint venture with ...

Artenius, the PET resins division of plastic packaging group La Seda de Barcelona (LSB, Barcelona / Spain; www.laseda.es/index_en.php), has developed a packaging ...

GE Plastics BV (HQ: PO Box 117, NL-4600 AC Bergen op Zoom) reports a significant breakthrough in the development of conductive plastics, "once again setting standards in plastics technology": An ...

Italian automotive component manufacturer Veggoplast (Volpiano / Italy; www.veggoplast.it) has ordered four more injection moulding machines from Austrian machinery manufacturer Wittmann-Battenfeld ...

US continuously processed acrylic sheet product manufacturer Plaskolite (Columbus, Ohio; www.plaskolite.com) has formed a joint venture with Turkish thermoformed plastics producer Isik Plastik (Gebze ...

PetroFina and Montedison have agreed terms for the purchase by PetroFina of the Montedison group's interest in the polypropylene production joint venture Montefina SA located in Feluy, Belgium. The ...

Eastman Chemical (Europe: NL-3013 Rotterdam; www.eastman.com) has officially abandoned plans announced last February to split into two stock-market listed companies for speciality chemicals and ...

Elastogran (HQ: D-49448 Lemförde; www.elastogran.com), the polyurethanes subsidiary of BASF (HQ: D-67056 Ludwigshafen; www.basf.com), will give itself a new corporate structure on 1 July, and as part ...

Rexam (London / UK; www.rexam.com) is continuing its expansion drive in rigid plastic packaging. The company recently announced two significant investments, the purchase of US company Precise ...

The board of directors of plastic foam producer JSP International (Tokyo / Japan; www.jsp.com) recently passed a resolution to set up a new expanded polypropylene (EPP) subsidiary in Wuhan City, Hebei ...