Rubber & Plastics

Group from consolidation from chemicals specialist Solvay will see 600 job-losses and a further 500 relocations from Paris to Lyon..

Enviro has delivered recovered carbon black to Volvo Cars via AnVa Polytech's environmental rubber compound for two years..

March's IHS Markit/ Cips PMI shows a steady rebound in order growth since the declines at the end of 2017..

New company to drive Stratasys STEP technology aimed at high-volume production using a wide range of thermoplastics at speeds comparable to conventional manufacturing processes..

Nigel Flowers, director of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag UK offers his tips on switching from PET to bio-based PEF feedstocks for packaging moulders..

For an enterprise value of €10.1 billion (approximately £8.8 billion), AkzoNobel has announced the sale of 100 per cent of its Specialty Chemicals business to The Carlyle Group and GIC..

VIP-Polymers is taking its tunnel segment gaskets to the ITA-AITES World Tunnel Congress in Dubai..

Environment Minister Thérèse Coffey has announced Councils will have the power to almost double on-the-spot fines for litter louts..

Hull pipe firm Plasticon has gone under after incurring losses since 2016..

Covestro's polycarbonate Makrolon has been developed into lens-quality grades for a Chinese sunglasses manufacturer..

Unilever has opened its Advanced Manufacturing Centre in Port Sunlight..

Additive manufacturing is heading way out west, as TCT Group joins forces with SME, the North American manufacturing association..

The multinational food company Unilever has announced a collaboration with materials recycling specialists for its PET packaging..

Borealis’ Supervisory Board has announced the appointment of new CEO, Alfred Stern, following the resignation of CEO, Mark Garrett..

Professor Paul Topham will host a public lecture at Aston University on how polymers transform our world-from 3d printing to bulletproof vests..

Repsol is carrying out multiple projects to improve its products’ end of life management..

Manufacturers urged to join EEF in tackling productivity puzzle..

RECOUP has announced it will hold its Plastics Recycling Conference on 27th September 2018, to discuss plastic resources and recycling..

Advetec invests £600,000 in R&D to tackle plastic digestion and challenging organic waste streams..

Polypipe has supplied two surface water drainage and wastewater management solutions for the newly opened King Street Train Depot in Blackburn..