Rubber & Plastics

Henniker, based in Risley, has used plasma treatment to improve stickyness of silicone..

Thermoplastic compounder Petlon has found a buyer from the UAE, Visionscape, to save it from administrators..

Raepak has completed a development project to make a cap to dose for all viscosities..

Buoyant conditions abroad cover fears over UK economy.

The second plastic banknote made by the Bank of England - a ten pound note featuring Jane Austen - has now entered circulation in England and Wales.

Lancashire plastic parts maker MGS has reached a million pound investment with a warehouse expansion..

SABIC has cut the ribbon on a pilot plant for new polypropylene materials at its research centre in Limburg, the Netherlands..

A table of the world's largest economies buy manufacturing output has placed the UK eighth, as its manufacturing sector grows to overtake France..

BASF is to acquire Solvay’s global Polyamides business for € 1.6 billion (approx.. £1.4 billion GBP) in a deal expected to close in the third quarter of 2018..

Utilities manager Veolia has opened a HDPE sorting site on the Thames estuary, specialising in vacuum extrusion from milk bottles..

RECOUP backs reintegration of waterproofing firm's HDPE..

Leading North East manufacturer road tests client’s product as team cycles Coast to Coast..

Food and drink sales have brought the monthly growth rate for UK manufacturing down but long-term prospects still look set for a stable increase..

A sewer system in the new town of Sherford, near Plymouth, has taken accredited ecological HDPE piping for its foul water retention..

JD Wetherspoon has announced it will stop using plastic straws in all of its 900 UK outlets from January 2018..

A cross-industry group is looking to turn black green by improving recyclability in packaging..

Catalyst engineering firm Econic signs agreement with Thai chemical group SCG..

Surface Generation sets up facility for its additive manufacturing process research which will employ twelve staff..

Belgian moulder Miko Pac turned to in-mould labelling experts Verstraete for its project with Unilever Magnum..

The British Plastics Federation has found widespread misunderstanding of the UK's contribution to marine litter in a Yougov survey..