Companies 
Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa Corporacion Technologica has opened its first blade plant in India
30 January 2012
Automotive plastics parts processor Megatech Industries has got the green light to expand production at its Czech Republic moulding plant in Jablonec nad Nisou
30 January 2012
Bemis will close two additional North American plants this year, bringing the total number of shuttered facilities to five
27 January 2012
Indorama Ventures Public plans to build an integrated purified terephthalic acid, PET resin and polyester staple fiber plant in India
27 January 2012
Chemical company Wacker says 2011 Ebitda dropped 8% compared to 2010 because of a weak fourth quarter, especially in the semiconductor and solar divisions
27 January 2012
Trelleborg is set to sell its French unit which makes rubber, plastic and foam components and systems for the light vehicles industry
26 January 2012
Uponor Deutschland is selling the Hewing OEM unit, based in Ochtrup, Germany, for €11.9m
26 January 2012
Former Dow Chemical scientist Wen Chyu Liu to five years in jail for selling information on production of Tyrin-brand chlorinated polyethylene to Chinese firms
16 January 2012
Three plastic pipe system manufacturers, two of them leading European players, are suspected of being part of a price fixing cartel operating in Hungary
13 January 2012
Hungarian plastics packaging producer Pannunion, recently bought by US investment firm Sun Capital Partners, has been absorbed by Sun’s pan-European rigid packaging offshoot Paccor Group
13 January 2012
Wittmann Battenfeld is building a 17,220-square-foot addition at its Kottingbrunn headquarters factory, part of a total expansion of 32,290 square feet of production and warehouse areas there
13 January 2012
Russian flexible packaging producer Tico-plastic is reported to be planning to expand its production of polyethylene film and converted products east of Moscow in Dzerzhinsk
11 January 2012
Materials producer Reichhold has opened a new manufacturing centre in Tianjin, China, with production capacity of 38,000 MT
11 January 2012
Chinese injection moulding machine maker Guangzhou Borch Machinery has appointed Plastigo as its exclusive distributor in Poland
11 January 2012
PlasticsEurope director Dr Wilfried Haensel says there are still opportunities for the region's plastics industry, despite all the ongoing economic uncertainties facing the Eurozone
10 January 2012
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