
GW Plastics to expand precision moulding operation in Ireland
GW Plastics is expanding its tooling and precision moulding subsidiary in Ireland, Avenue Mould Solutions, in a bid to meet growing demand for medical products.
A UK leading bread and flour brand, Hovis, has launched a bread bag recycling scheme in partnership with recycling and collection experts TerraCycle.
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), in partnership with industry bodies including the EuPC and EuMBC, has gathered a list of more than 400 substances used in the EU as additives in plastics.
Omega Plastics is to close two manufacturing facilities in north-east England in order to merge the locations into one larger site.
Italian bioplastics firm Bio-on srl has signed an agreement with Innova Imagen SA de CV to make polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymers in Mexico.
German plastics machinery company Hennecke GmbH has moved its North American headquarters to a new purpose-built facility in South Fayette Township, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
German plastic extrusion company Reifenhäuser Group has acquired blown film machinery supplier Plamex Maschinenbau GmbH, a move designed in particular to strengthen its offerings to the medical packaging industry.
Berry Global Group Inc. only has until mid-March to determine whether it actually will make an offer for RPC Group plc.
German manufacturer of moulded engineering plastics components, Schwartz GmbH Technical Plastics, has been renamed Röchling Industrial Xanten GmbH following its takeover by the Röchling Group late last year.
French energy supplier Total announced 19 Feb that it has acquired plastics recycling company Synova. Financial details about the transaction were not released. Synova produces 20,000 tonnes per year of high-performance recycled polypropylene...
Honda has joined other key carmakers to announce, in recent months, a restructuring bid which impacts their UK operations.
Braskem has launched a new study to develop a chemical recycling process for post-consumer plastics, such as grocery bags and packaging films for snacks and cookies.
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