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Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry. It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe, one of the leading content providers ...

Aerospace, defence and security systems supplier Goodrich Corporation (Charlotte, North Carolina / USA; www.goodrich.com) has acquired Crompton Technology Group (CTG, Banbury / UK; www.ctgltd.co.uk) ...

Dangerous toys for small children, i.e. those made of PVC containing phthalates, could be withdrawn from the Italian market in three months´ time. The Minister of Trade and Industry, acting in ...

The Victrex Polymer Solutions division of Victrex (Thornton Cleveleys / UK; www.victrex.com) has appointed Padmini Petroplast Pvt (Mumbai / India; www.padminipetroplast.com) as its distribution ...

Gas-assisted injection moulding specialist Cinpres Gas Injection (Middlewich / UK; www.cinpres.com) has been granted a patent in Europe for its Plastic Expulsion Process, following an intensive period ...

The Danish company Rosti A/S (Brydehusvej 32, DK-2750 Ballerup) has firmly established itself as a growing force in the UK injection moulding industry following its acquisition of Peter Tilling ...

German chemicals and precious metals group Degussa (HQ: D-60287 Frankfurt) has spun off its acrylics activities into a new wholly owned subsidiary. Along with production of methyl methacrylate monomer ...

Simultaneous announcements on 11 October by Ticona / DSM and Bayer/DuPont have cast a different light on the European PBT market. The big surprise for most observers is that Bayer has changed horses ...

Plastics distributor Ultrapolymers Deutschland (Augsburg / Germany; www.ultrapolymers.de) has added standard “Trirex” PC grades from Samyang (Seoul / South Korea; www.samyangcorp.com) to its ...

A fire broke out during planned maintenance at the ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymers (EVOH) production plant operated by Kuraray (Tokyo / Japan; www.kuraray.co.jp) in Pasadena, Texas / USA, injuring ...

The strategic alignment of Orbita-Film GmbH (Köthener Str. 11, D-06369 Weißandt-Gölzau) in the year 2000 is again oriented to specific growth. Plasteurope.com was able to see this for itself during a ...