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CEE plastic consumption at a glance – what, where?

In the second installation of our Injection Molding study publication series, we are offering an overview of plastic consumption data in the CEE region, including a comparison with Western European figures. The study breaks down CEE plastic consumption by polymer type, and lists the main end-user applications for each polymer type. The chapter also ranks CEE countries according to plastic consumption volume, with Russia and Poland predictably on top.
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PET market set for balanced growth

Medium-term market perspectives for Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) look favorable, as global PET capacity will increase slower than demand, bringing the market to balance, according to a recent study by MarketPublishers.com.
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Russia to flood Europe with PET as Alko-Nafta builds giant plant in Kaliningrad

Russia's Alko-Nafta is set to start construction of a new PET polymer factory with capacity of 240,000 tonnes per year in the city of Kaliningrad in the first half of 2010, news portal eplastics.pl reported.
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Lotos to move into plastics?

The Gdansk refinery of Poland's Grupa Lotos is considering the creation of a petrochemical division that would make use of pyrolysis gasoline, according to the Polish daily Puls Biznesu.
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European Commission Decision on the derogation for plastic crates and plastic pallets in relation to the heavy metal concentration

Article 11 of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (2004/12/EC) foresees that the sum of concentration levels of lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium present in packaging or packaging components shall not exceed the following:
- 600 ppm by weight;
- 250 ppm by weight; and
- 100 ppm by weight.
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Serbian plastics market crippled by uncertainty

Serbia's plastics sector is in a precarious state, as rising raw material prices, production bottlenecks and payment problems are threatening the livelihood of many industry players, according to an industry survey conducted by ECEBD.
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Situation in the Polish chemical industry

What has happened last year? First of all raw material costs rised and the same time final products decreased. The result was lower margins.
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Serbian market seen calming down

The Serbian plastics market has somewhat stabilized by the beginning of March, as fluctuations in the dinar exchange rate mitigated the effect of price changes, while raw material supplies are adequate, according to an industry survey conducted by ECEBD.
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The great reshuffling of the plastics industry...

...is now officially on. Indian petrochemical giant Reliance Industries has made a new purchase offer for LyondellBasell.
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Slovakia's Elektro Recycling to invest in plastics reprocessing line

Elektro Recycling s r.o., Slovakia's largest electronic waste recycling company, is expanding its activities at its Slovenská Ľupča plant by investing in new plastics processing machinery, whose task will be to process plastic waste from discarded electronics appliances.
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Isocyanate Prices – Outlook

The majority of thermoplastics converters must face the specter of price hikes in the case of polyolefins, PVC and polystyrene.
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