EUWID - Recycling and Waste Management

Packaging manufacturers processing PA 6 reported good supply in June. EUWID respondents predominantly described the market as

Almost all suppliers of aluminium packaging were sobered in the course of the second quarter 2009. Order levels throughout the entire industry

Demand picked up slightly for some commodity plastics in May. This indicated that the market had

Stable to lower prices surfaced on the French cartonboard market in May, with the normal differences depending on the grade and sector in question.

These days “survival” is the key word on the plastics packaging market, summarized an EUWID respondent. New developments were being postponed

Increased prices for raw materials are still pressing down on tinplate converters in Germany in the second quarter, however, there are other factors that are also exacerbating the situation

Movement and significant capacity changes were the predominant factor on the market for glass packaging. Saint-Gobain is starting a new furnace in Bad Wurzach, while the French company plans to shut down

The market for standard commodity plastics in the UK registered stronger business in April compared to January when EUWID conducted its last market research.

While relatively healthy demand for cartonboard still prevailed in some sectors in the UK, ordering was described as very weak on the whole. Food and pharmaceutical products were still

At the beginning of the second quarter it was not the massive price hikes for upstream materials that posed the main concern for suppliers of steel sheet packaging in Germany