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ARMACELL: Malte Witt appointed vice-president for EMEA
15/04/2021
Flexible insulation specialist Armacell has a new vice-president for the EMEA region, Malte Witt, who joined the company in 2008 as a marketing director, and has been the VP of the Asia-Pacific business since 2018. Witt succeeds ...ATP: Swiss group buys adhesive tape converter BDK / Forward integration
15/04/2021
ATP Adhesive Systems has acquired UK-based adhesive tape converter BDK Industrial Products as part of its strategy to expand internationally. No financial details were disclosed. The acquisition comes barely two years after private ...SABIC: Material from recovered, ocean-bound PET
15/04/2021
Saudi petrochemicals and plastics giant Sabic launched a recycled material comprising a minimum 10% recycled ocean-bound PET blended with polycarbonate. The Xenoy PC/PET compound is part of Sabics Trucircle portfolio of certified ...AVIENT: TPE grades with high recycled content in Asia, Europe, US
14/04/2021
US compounder and distributor Avient launched new grades of its resound R recycled content thermoplastic elastomers in Europe, and introduced new versions in North America and Asia, compatible with polycarbonate, ABS and PC/ABS ...SPHERE: French packaging group looking to grow UK business with acquisition of Sarpak
14/04/2021
French packaging group Sphere hopes to more than double its turnover in the UK after buying flexible packaging specialist Sarpak for an undisclosed sum. Sphere, which claims to be one of Europes leading household packaging producers ...JOKEY: Production starts at new Spanish site / Packaging manufacturer doubles capacity
14/04/2021
At the end of March 2021, Jokey Treplás, the Spanish subsidiary of Jokey, moved from its Molina de Segura site to its new plant in Murcia, 15 km away, and was renamed Jokey Iberica in the process. Construction work at the 30,000 m² site ...COMPOSITES: AVK and JEC plan forum for German-speaking region after Composites Europe cancelled / Online-only JEC World this summer
14/04/2021
After the quiet, almost clandestine exit of Composites Europe organiser Reed Exhibitions, the German reinforced plastics industry interest group Industrievereinigung Verstärkte Kunststoffe has taken up the challenge of organising a new ...CLARIANT: Membership of Circular Plastics Alliance
13/04/2021
Swiss speciality chemical company Clariant has joined the Circular Plastics Alliance, an EU initiative that was launched in December 2018 to improve the economics and quality of plastics recycling in Europe. Shifting towards a global ...IVK EUROPE: Marina Arz new MD
13/04/2021
Theres been a change at the executive level of Industrieverband Kunststoffbahnen IVK Europe, the industry association of companies producing sheets made of plastics and caoutchouc: Marina Arz was appointed managing director on 1 April ...LANXESS: Two inorganic pigments added to Colortherm Yellow' line
13/04/2021
German speciality chemicals company Lanxess has expanded its Colortherm Yellow pigment range for heat-resistant, high-performance plastics with two inorganic yellow pigments. Iron oxide-based Colortherm Yellow 5 and zinc-oxide based ...