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BIOPLASTICS: European Bioplastics industry group claims recent US report not scientifically backed-up / �Unbalanced conclusions�

| 18.05.12 00:00 h

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EPS: Italian market has been stagnant for years / Demand pegged at 141,000 t in 2011

| 18.05.12 00:00 h

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PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT: Jamaica launches pilot project to separate plastic waste / Nationwide programme could kick off in 2013

| 18.05.12 00:00 h

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PLASTIC FANTASTIC: Plastics and spice and everything nice

| 18.05.12 00:00 h

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PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT: Pacific Garbage Patch provides bug-breeding grounds / �Threat to the marine environment�

| 17.05.12 00:00 h

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GERMANY: Plastics producers raise 2011 output to 20.7m t / Revenues on the rise / Margins pressured by feedstock costs / PlasticsEurope Deutschland predicts �growth interval� in 2012

| 17.05.12 00:00 h

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BRASKEM: Mulling new US plant fed by cheaper shale gas feedstock / Decision to be made this year

| 17.05.12 00:00 h

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ECO PLASTICS: Continuum bottle recycling jv with Coca-Cola officially opened / Setting new industry standards for sustainable packaging / New bottles from old within six weeks

| 17.05.12 00:00 h

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ELECTRIPLAST: Electrically conductive hybrid plastics range expanded

| 17.05.12 00:00 h

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SIEMENS: Exhaust gas CO2 as feedstock for new �green� polymer / Cooperation with BASF

| 16.05.12 00:00 h

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COLORANT CHROMATICS: Swiss specialty chemicals group enters distribution agreement with India's Nishigandha Polymers

| 16.05.12 00:00 h

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RTP: Expansion of Ladenburg production plant / Relocating former Clariant compounding line

| 16.05.12 00:00 h

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COCA-COLA ENTERPRISES: Use of material in packaging to be reduced by 25% by 2020 / All bottles to include recycled and bio-based PET / Sustainability plan published

| 15.05.12 00:00 h

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RPC GROUP: Revenue well ahead of last year / Higher level of added-value products / Good cash flow / Superfos integration nearly completed

| 15.05.12 00:00 h

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AXSON: Launching new projects across the globe / Plans to double group size by 2016 / Andr� Genton appointed chief operating officer

| 15.05.12 00:00 h

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ROSTI GROUP: Swedish injection moulder establishes subsidiary in Malaysia / EUR 3m machinery investment

| 15.05.12 00:00 h

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NOVA CHEMICALS: Follow-up: PS line in Monaca not part of PFB deal

| 14.05.12 00:00 h

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BRASKEM: Net profit plunges 50% in Q1 hit by high naphtha costs / Resins demand improves

| 14.05.12 00:00 h

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SK GLOBAL: Building new plastomer and elastomer plant in Ulsan

| 14.05.12 00:00 h

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RPC BEBO FRANCE: Custom pot brings extended shelf life to soup-on-the-go

| 14.05.12 00:00 h

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BIOPLASTICS: Nova-Institut publishes second edition of bio-based plastics and composites business directory

| 14.05.12 00:00 h

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INTERVIEW: German plastics packaging: Ulf Kelterborn, head of IK business association, talks to PIE about plastic bag bans

| 11.05.12 00:00 h

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NOVA CHEMICALS: Letter of intent with insulating buildings specialist PFB for takeover of Performance Styrenics business / Completion expected in H2 2012

| 11.05.12 00:00 h

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PETROCHINA: Construction of mega-refinery joint venture project with Venezuela's PDVSA begins / Project includes two ethylene crackers

| 11.05.12 00:00 h

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PLASTIC FANTASTIC: Replacing horse power with bovine power?

| 11.05.12 00:00 h

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PEOPLE: Christopher Murphy appointed CIO at PolyOne

| 11.05.12 00:00 h

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INDIA: Supreme Court to consider total plastics ban / Anti-littering effort supported by TV station

| 10.05.12 00:00 h

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SOLVAY: Specialty Polymers division offers alternatives to PA 12

| 10.05.12 00:00 h

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UK RECYCLING: Infrastructure must be developed to increase recycling volumes / Clearer labelling needed / Awareness campaign for bottles under consideration

| 10.05.12 00:00 h

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RPC BEBO PLASTIK: Long shelf life for French recipe microwave meals in traditional-look cooking pots / Lids from RPC Bramlage

| 10.05.12 00:00 h

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CCP COMPOSITES: Total composites subsidiary sells US distributor

| 10.05.12 00:00 h

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A. SCHULMAN: ICO Polymers' Verolanuova production plant moved to Gorla / New merged Italian site boasts two new lines

| 09.05.12 00:00 h

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HPCL-MITTAL: Guru Gobind Singh refinery and PP plant officially commissioned

| 09.05.12 00:00 h

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BASF: US subsidiary moves to new office building

| 09.05.12 00:00 h

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FERRO SPAIN: Masterbatch range of additives and colours introduced in Spain

| 09.05.12 00:00 h

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VINYLPLUS: New sustainability initiative on track after first year / Target of 800,000 per year PVC recycling by 2020

| 09.05.12 00:00 h

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WESTLAKE: Proposal to acquire Georgia Gulf withdrawn / Plans to liquidate all holdings

| 08.05.12 00:00 h

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DATONG COAL MINE: Construction works for mega petrochemical project kick off / Manufacturing PE, PP and POM from coal

| 08.05.12 00:00 h

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IMCD: Malay subsidiary acquires plastics distribution business of Tropichem

| 08.05.12 00:00 h

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PEOPLE: Nick Stanage appointed Hexcel's new chief operating officer

| 08.05.12 00:00 h

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EVENTS: Launch of "Plastivision Arabia"

| 08.05.12 00:00 h

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BASF: Acquisition of Mazzaferro Group's polyamide business / Stronger market position in Brazil

| 07.05.12 00:00 h

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EVONIK: Extruded PMMA sheet joint venture created in South Africa

| 07.05.12 00:00 h

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CHEVRON PHILLIPS: Sweeny picked as location for two new polyethylene lines / Shaw Group will design Cedar Bayou cracker

| 07.05.12 00:00 h

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ARSENAL CAPITAL PARTNERS: Purchase of pigments supplier Plasticolors / Merger of Plasticolors with Evonik's colourants business / Separate MMA adhesives deal announced

| 07.05.12 00:00 h

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PLASTICS EUROPE: Ban on landfill for plastics waste takes major step forward / Backing from MEP Gerben-Jan Gerbandy

| 07.05.12 00:00 h

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PERSTORP: Distributor for Mitsubishi co-polyester in Europe / Substitution of other polymers for safety reasons

| 04.05.12 00:00 h

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MILACRON: Record start to 2012 in China / Order received for 113 �Elektron� machines / Workforce expanded

| 04.05.12 00:00 h

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AMCOR RIGID PLASTICS: Collaboration with Sacmi on development of compression blow forming / First applications in pharmaceuticals packaging / HDPE bottles in production at US site / Food uses envisaged

| 04.05.12 00:00 h

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PEOPLE: George Avdey named CEO of Kuraray America

| 04.05.12 00:00 h

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