Trade fairs: Messe Düsseldorf acquires stake in “Colombiaplast”

Plastics fair in the center of Bogota (Photo: Colombiaplast / Acoplásticos) On December 30, 2020, Messe Düsseldorf and the Colombian trade fair company Corferias signed a contract with the plastics association Acoplásticos (Bogota / Colombia; www.acoplasticos.org) on ​​a future collaboration on the plastics exhibition “Colombiaplast”. Through its subsidiary, Messe Düsseldorf North America (Chicago, USA), Messe … Read more

Trinseo: Again heavy surcharges for ABS and polycarbonate

PS granules of the “Styron” brand (Photo: Trinseo) Effective February 1, 2021, Trinseo (Berwyn, Pennsylvania / USA) is demanding further surcharges for styrenics and polycarbonate. For PS-GP (“Styron” brand) and PS-HI (“Styron”, “Styron A-Tech”, “Styron C-Tech” and “Styron X-Tech”) price increases of 40 EUR / t are planned, such as the company reports. It is … Read more

Berlin Packaging: Packaging manufacturer strengthens its plastics division

Packaging solutions for chemical products (Photo: Pentapackaging) The US packaging manufacturer Berlin Packaging (Chicago, Illinois / USA) is pushing its European expansion with the takeover of the two plastic packaging manufacturers Repli (Barcelona / Spain) and Pentapackaging (Bergamo / Italy). The takeover of the two companies represents the ninth acquisition of the US manufacturer of … Read more

Knives: “NPE” canceled as Live-Show, “Plast” cleared

More than 60,000 visitors came to Milan for Plast 2018 (Photo: KI) After much speculation about the possible options for this year’s “NPE”, there is now at least one certainty: The leading US plastics trade fair, which takes place every three years, will not take place as planned from May 17 to 21, 2021 as … Read more

Prohibit simultaneous work on dangerous construction projects and expand the supervision role

In the future, the role of the construction supervisor will be reinforced by reviewing the work plan in advance to prevent safety accidents at the construction site, prohibiting simultaneous work on fire-hazardous processes, and reinforcing the number of non-resident supervision inspections.- On the 24th, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Minister Kim Hyun-mi) announced … Read more

Supplied 12 lots to LH, Bucheon Ojeong Logistics Complex

– LH announced on the 24th that it will supply 12 parcels for upstream facilities in Bucheon Ojeong Logistics Complex through competitive bidding to general real users. The area per lot of the upstream facility land supplied this time is 575~1,577m2, and the estimated supply price is around 9.16~985 million won per 3.3m2, with a … Read more

Trade fairs: The plastics industry will meet in Orlando and Moscow in 2021

Around 56,000 visitors came to the fairgrounds in Orlando for NPE 2018, 27 percent of them from abroad (Photo: NPE) The registration of exhibitors for the leading US trade fair “NPE”, which takes place every three years, has begun May 2021 again in Florida at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. In difficult times, … Read more