— By Marilyn Gerlach — Eastman (Kingsport, Tennessee, USA; www.eastman.com) saw sales rising 2% in 2024 to USD 9.38 bn (EUR 9 ...

Film manufacturer and processor Coreth (Unterwaltersdorf, Austria; has invested around EUR 4 mn in expanding its production ...

Family-run Teufelberger (Wels, Austria; on 30 January 2025 applied for restructuring proceedings for its financially ...

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Saudi Arabian petrochemical and plastics group Sabic (Riyadh; www.sabic.com) will expand the number of its R&D bases this year to 18 with the launch of four new innovation centres, including two in ...

Until now, the supplier of kitchen and bathroom furnishings, Villeroy & Boch AG (Postf. 1120, D-66688 Mettlach), had three divisions: “Tiles”, “Tableware” and “Bath and Kitchen”. So that the company ...

Swissplast (Sargans / Switzerland; www.swissplast.com), a company that thermoforms technical components, is acquiring CAP-Vakuform (Diedorf / Germany; www.cap-vakuform.eu) for an undisclosed sum. The ...

Following 18 months of preparation, the 14 May general assembly of the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (APME, B-1160 Brussels; www.apme.org) approved plans to establish a new ...

Netherlands-based chemical company Ioniqa Technologies (Eindhoven; www.ioniqa.com) and venture capital firm Chemelot Ventures (Maastricht / The Netherlands; www.chemelotventures.com) have finalised ...

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

Since the beginning of 1997, Germany's plastics packaging waste recycling company, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kunststoffrecycling mbH (DKR, Frankfurter Str. 720-726, D-51145 Köln) has ceased "exporting ...