Demand from European converters fell back 7.2% from 2008 to 45 million tones in 2009. The market share of end use applications remained stable with packaging. The largest segment representing 40.1% of overall demand.
Rhodia to accelerate its growth in India with the acquisition of PI Industries’ Engineering plastics business.
Managing director, Bernhard Rupke, gives a status report as well as an outlook to the future of the company.
UK-based rigid packaging producer RPC Group announced today that it has agreed to buy Danish packaging rival Superfos for €240m.
At the “K” leading international plastics trade fair, Arburg presented groundbreaking products and applications covering diverse aspects of injection moulding technology.
Specialty chemicals company Lanxess has come to an agreement with Royal DSM to acquire DSM Elastomers for €310m. Lanxess says the deal help strengthen its production technology for ethylene propylene diene monomer(EPDM).
Thailand's Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited has signed agreements with Korea's SK Chemicals Company Limited to acquire the entire issued capital of SK Eurochem Sp. z o.o., in Poland and PT SK Keris together with its subsidiary PT SK Fiber in Indonesia.
from Ball Packaging Europe
At the last International Plastics Fair in Düsseldorf – K 2010 – Coperion GmbH, Stuttgart/Germany, had been able to present its report on incoming orders and sales and was looking to the future with great confidence.
Deepened, expanded, renewed: Agreement on long-term cooperation between Reifenhäuser and BBM in the blow moulding area.
Society is changing. While the average age of the population is falling in many countries of Africa and Asia, people in the Western industrialised nations are growing older. In addition, the pace of life is increasing all over the world. This is why consumers are increasingly demanding product packages permitting efficient handling – a challenge for industry.
Chemical Market Associates, Inc (CMAI) is forecasting global demand for polycarbonate to grow at an average annual rate of around 5.8% over the next five years, reaching around 4.4 million tonnes by the end of 2015.
