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
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
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
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