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Chemical giants BASF and Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) are expecting a positive financial outlook for the rest of the year after growth in the second quarter 30 July 2010

DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers (P&IP) has named Safic Alcan Nordic as its sole distributor for specialty ethylene copolymer in the Nordics territory (comprising Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway). 28 July 2010

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has invested more than €50m in a major PVC project lead by a Solvay JV in Russia. 27 July 2010

The company’s new PE water pipe operation at Pavlodar is one of the largest CIS installations outside of Russia. 27 July 2010

Invista has commenced a major review of its US polymers activities in a move that could see it sell its PET resin activities, following a path already adopted by rival Eastman. 27 July 2010

Anglo-Dutch household products group Reckitt Benckiser buys condoms to foot care products business SSL International. 27 July 2010

Constantia Flexibles is to pay €92m to acquire the Spain-based Tobepal flexible packaging operations from Amcor. 27 July 2010

German holding company Farmar is planning to set up a 150m unit a year disposable syringe facility in the Omsk region of Siberia. 27 July 2010

JSP, the manufacturer of the expanded polypropylene Apro material, is expanding in Asia with a new manufacturing site in Chennai, India, and additional production capacity at the JSP site in Guangdong, China 23 July 2010

BASF has declared force majeure on plasticisers made at its iso-Nonanol plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, due to a shortage of raw materials caused by a technical defect 23 July 2010

Auto supplier Plastic Omnium says reducing its cost base by 21% during the recession has helped boost revenues and profit during the first half of the year. For the six months ending 30 June, revenue increased 28.5% to €1.5bn, while profits went up nine-fold to €72.3m 23 July 2010

European Bioplastics has appointed a new head of communications. Kristy-Barbara Lange will be responsible for press relations and will report to managing director Hasso von Pogrell 23 July 2010

Blow molding giant Graham Packaging, which entered the China market in April with its first acquisition there, has set an aggressive target of up to $300m (€232m) in sales in China and Asia within five years 23 July 2010

Machine maker Micron says it will pull out of negative EBIT by the end of the year after recording an increase in orders of 82.2% 23 July 2010

Dow Chemical, one of the world’s largest plastics and chemicals makers, will run a one-day pilot test to determine if plastic waste can be used as fuel in its operations 22 July 2010

• Reckitt Benckiser buys SSL International 27 July 2010
• Amcor sells Tobepal units to Constantia Flexibles 27 July 2010
• US researchers design shape-shifting polymers 27 July 2010
• Nolato grows in US with Contour acquisition 27 July 2010
• Invista considers sale of US PET resins business 27 July 2010

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