The German plastic packaging market: supply security a major concern

France has adopted a new decree that will determine which fruits and vegetables may continue to be sold in plastic packaging....

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) announced that the list of single use plastic (SUP) products banned in England is to be expanded later this year. When the changes are implemented, the items subject to sales restrictions will be the same as those banned in the EU under the Single-use...

The mood in the market for rigid plastic packaging dampened in mid-October. Order books for containers and tubes remained well filled on the whole, according to EUWID respondents. However, in view of the poor economic outlook and the declining purchasing power of end consumers, producers of plastic tubes in particular...