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The UK branch of tooling supplier and design group R&D/Leverage, based in Sutton in Ashfield, has reported a 17% annual growth rate in gross sales value for the first six months of 2010. 6 July 2010

Solvay Solexis has developed, together with specialist foam products producer JSP, an expanded foam version of its Solef PVDF polyvinylidene fluoride polymer. 21 June 2010

ContiTech Fluid Technology is breaking into plastic production at its plant in Waltershausen, Thuringia, Germany. The company has historically focussed almost exclusively on rubber technology. 14 June 2010

They’re a metre long, brightly coloured and made from blow-moulded HDPE… and en mass they sound like a swarm of bees. The vuvuzela is the de facto sound of the World Cup in South Africa. 14 June 2010

Japan’s plastic machinery industry saw 2009 sales revenue drop 50%, with the country’s sizable injection press industry selling fewer than 5,000 units, compared with more than 12,600 in 2008, according to new data from an industry trade association. 24 March 2010

Nampak Plastics Europe is investing £3m in building a dairy bottle in-plant, along with Dale Farm, in Ballymena, Northern Ireland, the biggest such plant in both Northern Ireland and Eire. 16 March 2010

London-based Plastic Can Co is seeking licensees in North and South America for its patented, two-stage PET paint can. 16 March 2010

Visitors to the K 2010 website can buy daily tickets for the show (Düsseldorf, 27 October-3 November 2010) at €49, instead of €55 over the counter. 12 March 2010

Colortronic (UK) says it has supplied materials handling systems to Nampak Plastics Europe to allow inclusion of recycled HDPE into the rigid packaging company’s HDPE containers. 8 March 2010

M&H Plastics hopes its latest investment in a new injection blow moulding machine from Uniloy Milacron will help it expand in the market for pharma packaging. 5 March 2010

EuPC, the Brussels trade body for plastics converters, has urged European Union legislators to “get policy on plastics right; otherwise there will be widespread damaging effects on user and supply industries”. 4 March 2010

RPC Group is planning a further plant closure but the unidentified facility is not in its home base of the UK, chief executive Ron Marsh has told PRW. 27 November 2009

The wave of corporate acquisitions unleashed by Icelandic entrepreneurs in recent years was not restricted to big name high street retailers such as Hamleys and House of Fraser and West Ham United Football Club, it is worth bearing in mind. 3 November 2008

A conversation with a fair sized moulder last week really brought home the extraordinary pricing pressure which is now being experienced across the industry. 12 August 2008

• EuPR says PET study unwise and dangerous 26 August 2010
• Scientists find BPA boosts testosterone 26 August 2010
• A Schulman to shift capacity out of UK 1 September 2010
• Biome reports strong half year figures 27 August 2010
• Cereplast strikes EU bioplastics deal 27 August 2010

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• LyondellBasell considers Chapter 11 2 January 2009
• BASF takes drastic action and shuts 80 plants (Update) 19 November 2008
• Sabic IP cuts output of engineering plastics 6 November 2008
• Ineos seeks bank waiver as customers destock 18 November 2008
• German investor buys 50% of LyondellBasell 21 May 2009

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