Construction 
Polish plastics manufacturer Izo-Balex will set up a new polyurethane insulation panel plant in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland. The company plans to invest as much as 38m zloty (€8.85m) at the production facility and create about 41 new jobs.
1 February 2012
Uponor Deutschland is selling the Hewing OEM unit, based in Ochtrup, Germany, for €11.9m
26 January 2012
Bayer MaterialScience is promoting the EcoCommercial Building Programme at the Debau international construction trade fair in Essen, 10-14 January
13 January 2012
European PVC sheet and profiles producer Profine has taken a new step in its global expansion strategy with a project to launch its first plant in India
10 January 2012
Aiming to increase its PVC window profile output capacity, Polish manufacturer Drutex is expanding its production facility in Bytow. Drutex will invest at least 200m zloty (€45.98m) at the factory, according to reports in the Polish media
21 December 2011
A polyurethane application has won a 2011 Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) award for innovative use of steel in the province of Alberta, Canada. The award went to the Dialog consultancy and Empire Iron Works for the PU sandwich technique used to renovate a 100-year old, five-span, riveted steel through-truss bridge.
16 December 2011
The consumption of polyethylene pipes in Russia could grow by about 18-19% this year compared to 2010, according to recent forecasts from Myron Gorilovsky, head of Polyplastic, one of Russia’s largest producers of plastic pipes and engineering plastics
14 December 2011
Georg Fischer has bought US-based PVC pipe maker Harvel Plastics in a deal valued at about $50m (€37.1m)
2 December 2011
Austria-based Battenfeld-Cincinnati has sold the first die from a new PVC extrusion die series to Polish pipe producer InstalPlast
10 November 2011
Artenius PET Packaging Europe, Distrupol and Engel UK were among the winners at Friday’s glittering Plastics Industry Awards, which were held in the London Hilton on Park Lane.
17 October 2011
Underscoring its commitment to developing sustainable products and processes, Deceuninck North America is launching a program to incorporate recycled PVC scrap into its window and door products
19 September 2011
Mikron Industries and Profine International Profile Group will share technologies, in a partnership between vinyl window extruders in Europe and the US
12 September 2011
European window profile producer Profine has bought a further extrusion line from Krauss Maffei Berstorff after its initial 2010 order for a ‘piggybacked’ combination of a twin-screw extruder and two conical co-extruders
23 August 2011
Pipe extrusion figured among the machine demonstrations and presentations at KraussMaffei’s Competence Day open house earlier this year. European Plastics News. David Vink reports on the company’s new internal pipe cooling and infrared PEX-a pipe crosslinking units
22 August 2011
Austria based wood plastic compound (WPC) profile producer Extruwood has developed, together with Austrian window producer WKF, a new PVC based WPC profile. The profile is designed to substitute aluminium weather-cap profiles on wood profile framed windows, especially on vulnerable wooden sub-frames
18 August 2011
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