Specialty US packaging and merchandising provider, Chesapeake (Richmond, Virginia, USA) has acquired the Northern Ireland business of Boxmore International (Ennis House, Enterprise Way, Hightown ...

Mann+Hummel (Ludwigsburg / Germany; www.mann-hummel.com) has doubled production capacity at its water filtration headquarters in Singapore, while simultaneously expanding the site’s R&D facilities to ...

Speciality chemicals producer Lanxess (Leverkusen / Germany; www.lanxess.com) has developed a nanoparticle additive that can be used in the reinforcement of thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers ...

The PVC recycling process developed by “VinyLoop”, a partnership of PVC producer SolVin (Brussels / Belgium; www.solvinpvc.com), French mixed membranes manufacturer Serge Ferrari (La Tour du Pin; ...

With the recently announced takeover of 75% of Polish plastics converter Dom-Plast SA (ul. Zlota 6, PL-76200 Slupak) and the acquisition last spring of French converter Injecta Plastic SA (F-01103 ...

Germany’s RKW Group (Frankenthal; www.rkw-group.com), which bills itself as Europe’s leading manufacturer of high quality PE and PP films, has inaugurated its new USD 30m plant for hygiene plastic ...