Rising raw material prices and the crash of the rupee has badly mauled India's plastic industry, according to the country's largest plastics trade association. "[The] future of over 50,000 manufacturing units and four million jobs are at ...
Tags: Plastics Industry, Polymer Costs
BASF has launched a new red shade yellow pigment, Paliotol Yellow K 1750. With the help of a new chemistry patented by BASF, this organic pigment offers customers a cost effective alternative to heavy metal and diarylide pigments that can ...
Tags: Yellow Pigment, Plastics Industry
It is using its new pack called Versalite for the cups. Berry Plastics said that the "#5 plastic polypropylene-based Versalite technology" offers "excellent performance, a positive consumer experience, and environmental advantages over many ...
As part of the Trust Chem Group strategy to expand and grow in Europe, Trust Chem Europe BV announced it has signed a distribution contract with the Spanish company Proquibasa. "Being the fourth biggest organic pigment producer in the ...
Tags: Chem Europe BV, Spanish Market
Joe Pryweller of FreedoniaThe Freedonia Group, Cleveland, OH, a leading industry market research firm, has announced that Joseph Pryweller has joined the firm as a senior industry analyst in the packaging group. He will direct multi-client ...
Packaging shrink film manufacturer Clysar has selected SYSPRO ERP, which enables the ready design of a system that meets the requirements of a specialized industry. Clysar CIO Wayne Carlson said the company selected the new software for ...
Tags: Clysar, Packaging Software
R&D/Leverage, recently recognized as the first U.S. mold maker and Structural Brand Development Company to be certified "Made in the USA," has now launched Support Plastics USA, www.supportplasticsusa.com, a new portal site designed to ...
The call was made at a parliamentary reception last week hosted by Plastics 2020, the industry umbrella group run by the British Plastics Federation (BPF), the Packaging and Films Association (PAFA) and Plastics Europe. The plastics ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Plastics Industry
Plastics these days have become requisite part of our daily life. Almost every industry and home makes use of it. According to the variation in molecular structure, plastics can be classified as thermoplastics or thermo sets. Keeping the ...
Tags: Plastics, Processing Machinery
In recent years, companies around the world have faced a number of difficulties in their operations, such as the rising price of petroleum, the shortage of energy, the Eurozone debt crisis, increasing labour costs, environmental pollution, ...
Demand for plastic packaging rose in the UK last year, helped by the food and beverage industry, according to a new survey. Figures from industry body Plastics Europe, of which the British Plastics Federation (BPF) is a member, showed ...
Today we heard the sad news that Britain's first woman Prime Minister has died.? Not so well known is her time in the plastics industry. It was in 1947 that BX Plastics based in Manningtree, Essex took on 17 new researchers. Three were ...
Tags: plastics industry, Packaging, Printing, first woman Prime Minister
The injection molding machine sales have shown an upswing in the US during 2012 compared to 2011, according to the latest statistics by Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI). As per the data reported by SPI's Committee on Equipment ...
Tags: Injection Moulding Machines, Packaging, all-electric machines
Australia's $9 billion polymers industry will be boosted by a national cooperative research initiative. The launch featured a novel degradable plastic film that Greening Australia and the Birchip Cropping Group have shown can dramatically ...
Tags: Chemicals, plastic film, Packaging, Printing
Yesterday, Chancellor George Osborne delivered his Budget statement. He pledged to scrap a 3p rise in fuel duty, cut national insurance payments and raise the personal allowance to £10,000 next April. Every business in the country ...
Tags: Industry Chiefs, Packaging, Chancellor