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Crane Plastics forms UK unit to sell innovative mud flaps - Plastics News


Crane Plastics forms UK unit to sell innovative mud flaps
Plastics News
By Brandi Shaffer | PLASTICS NEWS STAFF COLUMBUS, OHIO (Feb. 21, 2:20 pm ET) -- Crane Plastics has formed a subsidiary in Edinburgh, Scotland, that is distributing a mud flap that increases fuel economy and safety. Spraydown Solutions Ltd. is led by ...
Crane Plastics launches UK subsidiary Spraydown SolutionsBizjournals.com

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PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT - Plasteurope


PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT
Plasteurope
US oil and chemical giant ExxonMobil (Irving, Texas; www.exxonmobil.com) has been slapped with a EUR 3.3m fine by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa, Stirling / UK; www.sepa.org.uk) for failing to report more than 30000 t of climate ...

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MP opens £1 million Plastics Waste Sorting Facility at Centriforce - edie.net (press release)


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MP opens £1 million Plastics Waste Sorting Facility at Centriforce
edie.net (press release)
CENTRIFORCE Products, the UK's largest independent plastics recycler, has invested £1 million in a pioneering new Plastic Recycling Facility (PRF) at its six-acre Liverpool production centre. The new facility was officially opened on the 14th February ...

UK Firm Expands Plastics Recycling Facility - Recycling Today


Recycling Today
UK Firm Expands Plastics Recycling Facility
Recycling Today
The Liverpool, UK-based plastics recycler Centriforce Products has opened a plastics recycling facility at its Liverpool, UK, production center. The company, which says it is the largest independent plastics recycling firm in the UK, ...
Recycled Plastics Manufacturer Opens Sorting Facility in LiverpoolWaste Management World
Centriforce opens £1 million plastics sorting facilityletsrecycle.com

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UK plastics remains optimistic says BPF - Plastics & Rubber Weekly


UK plastics remains optimistic says BPF
Plastics & Rubber Weekly
By Anthony Clark The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has published its latest Business Conditions Survey and according to its director-general, Peter Davis: “The plastics industry is optimistic about 2012, but confidence is a little reduced compared ...

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York businesses in the running to make export ideas a reality - The Press, York


York businesses in the running to make export ideas a reality
The Press, York
The competition, launched last month by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI), in partnership with HSBC and PwC, is offering travel grants business support to help pursue their plans. Bowness & Bowness, which sells hand painted luxury wallpaper, ...

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UK recycler stymied by poor bale quality - Plastics News


UK recycler stymied by poor bale quality
Plastics News
According to Andy Moore, coordinator of the Campaign for Real Recycling, the company had been badly affected by the increasing tendency for collections in the UK to contain mixed plastics. Moore commented: “PSL is another casualty of the economic ...
Administrators 'hopeful' of finding buyer for recycling businessWalesOnline

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Great haul of China - The Sun


The Sun
Great haul of China
The Sun
UK sales for 2011 were 1.9million. But despite their booming market — which is expected to rise to 20million this year — Chinese firms are determined to crack the UK for kudos. And it would be foolish to laugh off another value-for-money Asian metal ...

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Grumbe forms packaging partnership with Bell - European Plastics News


Grumbe forms packaging partnership with Bell
European Plastics News
Bell Packaging is set to promote the packaging products of Spanish group Grumbe in the UK after the two companies announced a partnership. Grumbe produces tubing, boxes and inserts and makes more than 80m packs every year, offering the largest printed ...

Plastics Capital: Bearing up, looking ahead - Plastics & Rubber Weekly


Plastics Capital: Bearing up, looking ahead
Plastics & Rubber Weekly
By Hamish Champ While many debate the scale of the UK's economic woes, and while conditions are far from ideal for lots of businesses, there are those in the plastics sector who have managed to report steady business activity in recent months.