Rubber & Plastics

Manchester-based plastics recycler, Axion is calling for a UK rise in demand for recycled materials.

Chudleigh Sutch will be the sole distributor for Stork machines in South East Asia and Oceana.

Med-Tech Innovation Expo is the UK and Ireland's leading showcase for medical design and manufacturing technology and innovation.

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Solvay have partnered for a project on the chemical indsutry's circular economy ambitions..

The British Plastics Federation has worked with the Environment Agency to set up a way to anonymously report waste crimes..

UK supermarket, Waitrose, has pledged to eliminate the sale of own-brand products in black plastics packaging by the end of 2019..

ICS Cool Energy, based in Southampton, has become part of Ingersoll Rand..

The mega-manufactuer of soft drinks, Coca Cola, has unveiled plans to collect and recycle a bottle for each it makes..

The World Plastics Council has elected James Seward as its next Chairman..

Senior Vice President of Integration at KraussMaffei, Dr Karlheinz Bourdo, is to be included in the Plastics Hall of Fame..

The latest industrial trends survey from the Confederation of British Industry has found factory output to be rapidly accelerating - the main constraint will be lack of skilled staff in factories..

Pipe couplings for hostile environments are available from Cambridgeshire's VIP Polymers..

Colour imaging and analysis is available in an improved spectrophotometer ideal for plastics and coatings production..

Confidential documents reveal the government is opposing new recycling targets across the EU despite its recent plastic pledge..

Leeds based medical plastics consultant Plazology has announced a raft of investment in staff and premises..

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has presented plastics innovators with its Circular Design Challenge awards, supported by Prince Charles..

Research results released by ESE world shows HDPE developed for injection moulding use can be recycled and moulded repeatedly..

SABIC's shopping spree shows no signs of slowing down, after it agreed a deal with White Tale holdings to buy Clariant's largest stake..

The level of new apprentices starting courses in the UK rose slightly over 2017, but dropped 27 per cent from the start of the last academic year..

Rugby MP Mark Pawsey has spoken to Parliament's magazine the House on the progress on recycling in the packaging industry..