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Data from European plastics trade group PlasticsEurope published this week shows that demand for plastics materials in Europe fell 3.2% last  year 16 May 2013

The global thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) market will grow to $23.9bn (€18.3bn) in 2018 from $15.1bn (€11.6bn) in 2012, according to a new report from MarketsandMarkets (M&M) 10 May 2013

Global demand for plastic pipes will increase 8.5% annually to 2017, spurred on by a rebound in demand in the US market, according to a new report from Freedonia 1 May 2013

Official figures revealed that GDP grew by 0.3% in the first three months of the year helping Britain narrowly avoided a triple dip recession 26 April 2013

UK manufacturing faces a ‘brain drain’ as skills-starved executives look to leave the sector in droves, claimed a new report 24 April 2013

Sales of plastic packaging and films in Germany stayed relatively stable in 2012, showing only a 0.4% decrease in turnover from 2011, according to trade association IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen 23 April 2013

The Danish plastics group has acquired Swedish firm Interplast as part of its Nordic plastics growth strategy. 16 April 2013

Demand for propylene, the building block for PP, is set to increase at compound annual growth rates of 3.9% over the 2000-2017 period, according to a new report from GlobalData. 12 April 2013

The global market for functional additives and barrier coatings for plastic packaging will reach $3.7bn (€2.8bn) by 2018, according to a new report from Smithers Pira 11 April 2013

The US turnaround continued in 2012 for sales of injection moulding machines — by far the largest plastics machinery segment — while extruders and blow moulding machine segments were flat or down, according to the Society of the Plastics Industry's Committee on Equipment Statistics 5 April 2013

China may have hit a watershed last year in its trade balance for injection moulding machines — for the first time, exports of injection presses made in China exceeded imports, with the country sending nearly $1bn (€0.8bn) worth of moulding machines abroad 2 April 2013

Assocomaplast, the Italian association for plastic and rubber processing machinery, says a 6% rise in exports last year helped compensate for extremely weak domestic demand 26 March 2013

The versatility of HDPE will help the global market sell to almost $70bn by 2019, according to a new report from Ceresana 12 March 2013

Global production capacity of bio-based polymers is forecast to more than treble from now until 2020 to nearly 12 million tonnes, according to German-based research and project management group, the Nova Institute 8 March 2013

The global market for plastic materials used in the personal care industry is set to reach $13.5bn (€10.1bn) by 2016, boosted mainly by growth in the skin and hair segments, according to a new report 7 March 2013

• Kingiseppsky to invest in new petrochemical facility 13 May 2013
• BASF boosts ‘green’ packaging options 14 May 2013
• Amcor launches lightest 64oz PET bottle 13 May 2013
• B. Braun doubles production at Hungary plant 15 May 2013
• Polyplastics opens Indonesian office 13 May 2013

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• Invista takes next step toward Chinese nylon 6/6 plant 17 May 2013
• Poland-based Plastwag expands capacity 13 May 2013
• Polyplastics opens Indonesian office 13 May 2013
• Kingiseppsky to invest in new petrochemical facility 13 May 2013
• BASF boosts ‘green’ packaging options 14 May 2013

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