2022 Impact Report Highlights How Berry Global Drives Meaningful ESG Progress
The company is on track to exceed its 2025 goal to reduce operational emissions by 25%
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Get Ahead at the ICIS World Polyolefins Conference
The 9th ICIS World Polyolefins Conference is just around the corner — an exciting event that brings together senior-level executives, market experts and industry innovators from across the polymer and chemical community
ICIS PET Value Chain Conference: A Must-Attend Event for PET Professionals
At the ICIS PET Value Chain conference, PET professionals will have the chance to network with their peers and share their own experiences and best practices.
Packaging for beverages is growing more sustainable
There is a huge range of choices for packaging beverages. But which is the most sustainable? The focus has increasingly been placed on ecological aspects over the last few years in this sector.
Global bioplastics production defies challenges by showing significant increase
European Bioplastics presented yesterday at the 17th EUBP Conference a positive outlook for the global bioplastics industry.
Analysis of Polish tool industry regarding polymer processing
Among economies such as Germany or Portugal, Poland is a domineering European producer of tools for processing of plastics used in many sectors. None of these sectors could function without high quality tools.
Central European Polymer Market outlook
From 2018, the market was characterised by low prices and cheap import. We had survived the first wave of the epidemic, the demand suddenly started. However, polymer deliveries were delayed due to a lack of containers. All this generated an actual shortage.
Plastics industry in Poland
The plastics industry is one of the main branches of the economy in Poland. The Polish plastics industry employs more than 220,000 people and total production in Poland has exceeded €25 billion (more than 6% of the value of the domestic industry).
ICIS petrochemicals and plastics index (IPEX) pointing to global price collapse
The monthly ICIS Petrochemical Index (IPEX) is recording a collapse in commodity petrochemical and polymer prices worldwide as economic and cost pressures for the sector mount.
New publication grants insight into the mechanical recycling of PE/PA multilayer films
In a new publication, BASF and Institute cyclos-HTP reveals details of the mechanical recycling of coextruded flexible packaging films containing polyamides (PE/PA multilayer films).
K 2022 - Trend Report Europe
European plastics industry braces for increased instability, higher prices, and lower growth
Feedstock volatility, rising polymer prices
At the beginning of last week, both “feedstock” and energy prices reached their highest levels in 10 years. The price of oil was 139 USD/barrel, NAPHTHA was 1,121.7 USD/t and the price of natural gas was 227.201 Euro/MWh.
