Vink (Zeist / The Netherlands: www.vink.com) has sold its loss-making plastic distribution business in the UK and Ireland to paper merchant Robert Horne Group (Northampton / UK; www.roberthorne.co.uk) ...

Walki (Espoo / Finland; www.walki.com) has signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire 100% of the shares of Finnish film and packaging manufacturer Plastiroll (Ylöjärvi; www.plastiroll.fi), ...

Hermann Berstorff Maschinenbau GmbH (PO Box 610360, D-30603 Hannover), a company known for the building of extruders, has changed its name, quite simply, to Berstorff GmbH. According to Managing ...

Dow Chemical (Midland, Michigan / USA; www.dow.com) and Mitsui & Co (Mitsui / Japan; www.mitsui.com/eu) have started up their new joint venture membrane chlor-alkali ...

Rexam (London / UK; www.rexam.com) is continuing its expansion drive in rigid plastic packaging. The company recently announced two significant investments, the purchase of US company Precise ...

The European UP resins manufacturer Cray Valley (Le Diamant 5, F-92970 Paris-La-Defense) has agreed to acquire the Spanish UP resins company Resinas Poliesteres SA (Reposa) (Juan Bravo, 3-B, 2a, ...

DIN/ISO 9001 approval was granted to the Kirchberg factory of Metzeler Plastics GmbH (PO Box 1760, D-52407 Jülich) in November 1993. The business area "thermoplastics" produces sheeting products from ...

Artenius, the PET resins division of plastic packaging group La Seda de Barcelona (LSB, Barcelona / Spain; www.laseda.es/index_en.php), has developed a packaging ...

SIG Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft Holding AG (CH-8212 Neuhausen; www.sig.ch) underwent a strategic realignment in the 2000 business year. The group parted with divisions that were not related ...

The 1995 merger of CarnaudMetalbox SA (CMB, 153 rue de Courcelles, F-75817 Paris Cedex 17) with Crown Cork & Seal Company Inc (9300 Ashton Road, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19136, USA) created a new ...

Hoechst's (D-65926 Frankfurt) sell-offs of its plastics activities reached a temporary peak in mid July with the group's announcement that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its 500,000 t/y, DEM ...

In response to carmakers' demands for ready-to-assemble modules, Plastic Omnium (1 rue du Parc, F-92300 Levallois) and Inoplast (Z.I., PO Box 3, F-07340 St-Desirat) plan to form a 50:50 joint venture ...