The German PA 6 for packaging market: Ukraine war continues to drive up prices

For manufacturers of flexible plastic packaging, the first half of 2022 was characterised by strong demand on the one hand, but also by difficulties in the supply chain on the other. According to some interviewees, demand was high from the food sector, and increasingly also from bulk consumers. Furthermore, good demand...

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...