Competitiveness 
Belgian polyurethane foam, bedding and insulation producer Recticel Group said its consolidation efforts in 2009 have paid off as sales and ebitda both increased during the first half of the year.
2 September 2010
Solvay is to increase the production capacity for peroxide curable fluoroelastomers, under the trademark Tecnoflon, at its Solexis plant at Spinetta Marengo, Italy. Solvay is investing €10m in the capacity increase, which is expected to start producing in the first half of 2012.
2 September 2010
Starting next month Urespec will be representing Shepherd Chemicals in the UK and Ireland, offering speciality catalysts to elastomer and foam manufacturers.
1 September 2010
Visteon’s reorganisation plan has been approved by US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware. The $700m (€550m) exit plan, arranged by Morgan Stanley, involves a $500m (€392m) senior secured term loan and $200m (€160m) of senior secured asset-based revolving credit.
1 September 2010
A Schulman is streamlining manufacturing operations at its Crumlin, South Wales, production facility and moving part of the plant's capacity to two other, larger plants in Europe.
1 September 2010
British Polythene Industries has revealed encouraging half year figures despite raw material price uncertainty. The company reported revenues increased to £260.8m, up from £231.4m in 2009. Profits before tax rose by more than 40% to £13.1m.
31 August 2010
Miko the Belgium-based plastics packaging and coffee service firm, says both operating and net profit fell 8% over the first half of the year because of rising raw material prices.
31 August 2010
Polymer and composite consultancy Smithers Rapra and Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem), have announced a new partnership to support its products applications development centre.
27 August 2010
Mexico’s national plastics industry association will never give up trying to change society’s “mistaken idea” that plastics are to blame for environmental pollution, its president says.
25 August 2010
Sheffield’s Global Plastics Solutions has acquired Cornish firm Orchid Plastics. The deal was completed with the help of a group of Yorkshire-based legal experts and financiers.
25 August 2010
A commercial recycler and social welfare charity has installed a £150,000 trommel screening plant as part of its aim to reducing the amount of waste being sent to landfill. Recycling Lives, based across four sites in Preston, can now reduce waste previously destined for landfill by around 90%, according to the company.
25 August 2010
The Russian media are reporting that Sibur and Tatneft are to merge their tyre activities. The combination of Sibur Russian Tyres and Nizhnekamskshina would be a formidable force in the Russian tyre sector, given that Sibur is now the largest creditor of Amtel, and hence has nominal control over Amtel's tyre building assets.
24 August 2010
Sales of robots across all industries in the UK have received a boost in 2010, according to the British Automation and Robotics Association (BARA).
24 August 2010
A Russian company is investing $100m in the construction of a new joint venture plant in Tatarstan to manufacture composite airframe components for commercial aircraft.
24 August 2010
Italian roofing insulation specialist Freudenberg Politex has invested $1.6m to install a new geotextile nonwovens line at its plant in Zavolzhie, in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region.
23 August 2010
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