EUWID - Recycling and Waste Management

GD board manufacturers find their margins increasingly squeezed by recent market developments. Recovered paper prices have shot up in recent months and peaked for the time being in February

Both suppliers and converters described the market for PA 6 packaging applications as balanced. Producers told EUWID that there were occasional bottlenecks for higher viscosities.

Since the last EUWID market research in November 2009, the situation on the UK market for standard commodity plastics has brightened and demand has normalised.

SPI Bioplastics Council published a statement on controversial oxo-degradable plastics in a January 2010 position paper. Basically the organisation supports the already existing position

Most standard commodity plastics saw significant price hikes in January, especially PS and PE. Increases for PP were a little less pronounced albeit still considerable

From the beginning of January 2010 the Belgian law concerning service packaging has changed radically in the course of the new International

In the 2009 business year German glassworks achieved rather different results, depending on the respective product range and customer base.

The British GC board sector seems to have made a little more progress than Continental markets when it comes to negotiating

All quiet on the Eastern Front. This modified title of the classic novel by Erich Maria Remarque does not just provide an apt description of the current situation. It also sums up the course of

French glass manufacturers produced about 5.21m t flat, container and special glass in 2008, down 7% on the previous year, when total production reached