Rubber & Plastics

Toyota will build the 2018/19 models of its Auris in England, with engines assembled in Cheshire and cars built in Derbyshire..

The sandwich chain is planning to impose a 10p refundable deposit on its own-brand plastic bottles at three of its outlets in Brighton..

Belgrade Polymer Products has secured business with a local customer who supplies radiator fan cowls for commercial and agricultural vehicles worldwide..

Solvay has appointed Rodrigo Elizondo as President of Special Chem Global Business Unit, and Michael Finelli as President of the GBU Speciality Polymers..

Tetra Pak has delivered more than half a billion packs of Tetra Rex Bio-based packages and products will go on display at London museum..

Supply chain constraints and a price level increase have brought increasing factory output growth to a slow down..

EEF/BDO survey shows output, orders, investment and recruitment all remain significantly above their long-run average..

ELG Carbon Fibre announces plans to increase the capacity of its UK facility to meet increasing demand..

Bitrez sells 5,000th ton of low free formaldehyde CURAPHEN phenolic polymers and launches additional formaldehyde free grades..

100% Injection Coloring Technology from Riverdale Global can dose liquid colour during both injection and recovery moulding phases..

Frigel’s new portable chillers now capture energy data for improved productivity and profitability..

The Vinyl Council of Australia has identified recycling applications in a bid to use the 1.2 million m² of PVC advertising banners sent to Australian landfill sites each year..

Bunting Magnetics Europe Ltd says a period of sustained sales growth and restructuring of its business divisions has led it to recruit a new Sales Engineer for its UK team..

After the 2016 recycling statistics were released by Defra last week, the environmental consultancy Eunomia has countered the figures with its own estimates that recovered materials are bulked by a third..

The Worshipful Company of Horners and the British Plastics Federation (BPF) are now accepting entries to The Horners Award for Plastics Innovation and Design..

Recycling Technologies, based in Swindon, has almost reached a £3.7 million crowdfunding and investment target..

WIBA brought the connected factory message to this year’s Southern Manufacturing show in Farnborough..

Packaging Innovations, Empack and Label and Print 2018 opened its doors to packaging professionals with sustainability top of the agenda..

January’s brew-haha over a charge on takeaway coffee cups has come to naught after the Government responded with a focus on ‘voluntary commitments’ to reduce container waste..

2018 JEC Innovation Award win acknowledges companies including the Dow Chemical Company for mass production of components for automotive rear wall structures..