The market for very clear thick-walled bottles and jars that has remained largely untapped by polypropylene is now opening up as the result of a cooperative project between Milliken Chemical, market leader for clarifying agents for polypropylene, and precision blow mould maker ADOP ...

The associations European Bio-plastics and the European Polysaccharide Network of Excellence (EPNOE) have recently published a jointly-commissioned study on bio-based plastics. It forecasts their capacity developments and technical substitution potential. The authors, from Utrecht ...

Following the investments in machinery and additional staff at the headquarters in Gumpoldskirchen/Austria and the production sites in Russia, Hungary and the Czech Republic, Gabriel-Chemie is now expanding its sites in Poland and Italy. Gabriel-Chemie has had a sales office near ...

Davis-Standard, LLC and Gneuss, Inc., headquartered in Germany, recently joined ...

LyondellBasell today issued the following statement: LyondellBasell has received a preliminary non-binding offer from Reliance Industries Limited to acquire for cash a controlling interest in the company contemporaneously with the company's emergence from Chapter 11 reorganization. ...

The stretch blow moulding process has now become established in the production of ...

Less than 19 grams for 0.5 L: Sidel beats the world record for thelightweighting of hot-fillable PET bottles and designs innovative shapesthanks to the development of new technical solutions. Discover the newmodels Skyward™ and Curvy™. ...

And for select markets in the Western United States, including Seattle, San ...

At Starlinger & Co. Gesellschaft m.b.H., world market leader in the field of flexible woven plastic packaging and PET recycling and refinement, a change in management has taken place. Richard Müssler has decided for personal reasons to resign from the company’s management. Sven Wolf, ...

Rexam PLC, the global consumer packaging company, announces that Graham Chipchase is to succeed Leslie Van de Walle on 1 January, 2010 when Leslie retires from the Group to concentrate on, and develop, his non executive interests.Graham has been Group Director Plastic Packaging since ...