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Plastic offers advantages over metal for automotive fuel filler pipes, the pipe that leads from the gas pump nozzle to your car’s fuel tank, a Ford Motor Co. executive said at the Society of Plastics Engineers’ Annual Blow Molding Conference.

• Plastic

PET recycling can see a significant increase from existing collection efforts through a series of moves, according to a new study from Closed Loop Partners.

• PET
• Recycle

TricorBraun Holdings Ltd., for the first time in the company's history, is moving into flexible packaging with its latest acquisition.

• TricorBraun
• Flexible Packaging

Custom injection molder iMark Molding Inc. will spend $18 million to expand and upgrade its Woodville, Wis., operation.

• iMark
• Pharmaceutical

Shanghai-based cosmetics industry supplier HCP Packaging Group is looking for significant growth in Europe with the acquisition of plastics firms in Germany and France.

• Cosmetics
• HCP

Hennecke GmbH, a German machinery company, is purchasing Italy-based OMS Group of Milan in a deal that is expected to close in December.

• Polyurethane

The government of the United Kingdom is offering £2,500 ($3,300) to U.K. exhibitors at Chinaplas 2018, according to the Department of International Trade.

Possibly cracking open the door in its ban on plastic scrap imports, the Chinese government may allow some grades of clean material in, if they can be used directly in manufacturing, according to a Chinese industry group.

• Plastic

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) announced Nov. 16 that it was moving to “permanently revoke” the permit for Chemours Co. to discharge its wastewater as the company had “repeatedly failed to follow the law.”

• Waterwaste

Nordic plastics film specialist Rani Plast Group has formed a new independent company, Tatrafan, which will include the group’s jointly owned flexible packaging operations in Eastern Europe.

• Plastics

Arlanxeo said that its bio-based EPDM rubber is used in the Adidas soccer ball of the World Cup 2018.

• Arlanxeo

Most of the 150 million tons of plastics produced around the world every year end up in landfills, the oceans and elsewhere.

• Plastics

Singapore’s exports of naphtha slumped by 56% year on year to 54,942 tonnes in October.

• Singapore
• Exports

Spanish chemical companies’ sales are set to increase in 2017 by 5.7%, year on year, to €62.4bn, as domestic consumption and the global recovery fuelled demand, the country’s chemical trade group FEIQUE said on Monday.

• Spain
• Chemicals

Tianjin PC has restarted the 340kta PTA unit already and the unit was shut on Nov 7 for turnaround.

• PTA

Sellers withholding better grades of lint remained in the driving seat as stocks of better grades of lint were shrinking.

• Cotton
• Pakistan

According to the representative of NDRC, the supply situation is critical in this winter, however, on account of the well-run overall di...

• Natural Gas
• Winter Heating

However, later most industrial natural gas consumers will be restricted or even be halted in production for the sake of the peak-shaving...

• Gas
• Requisition
• LNG

ECHEMI invited Mr Meraj to give us the market speech, Mr Meraj is the CEO from ocean chemical which is top 10 commissioner in Painting and coating in Pakistan.

• Pakistan
• Coatings

At the site of the parallel session, buyers and sellers learned from each other to build trust and shared industry information in the form of a question-and-answer session to achieve the goal of jointly developing the paint market.

• Pakistan
• Venus