Plastics

Plastic bottles - photo by Steven Depolo

Plaxica sets ambitious goal to produce renewable plastic

A pioneering project to create a plastics polymer from renewable resources has been unveiled with plans announced to build the UK’s first bio-polymer demostration facility. According to a report by Edie.net, technology and licensing company ...

Published : 10 Feb 2012 5:01pm by Tim Brown View Article

Robnor Resins now has 9 distributor partners in 15 countries, and export turnover is expected to grow again next year

Robnor Resins sees overseas and domestic demand grow by 80%

Robnor Resins Ltd, based in Swindon, is experiencing a huge rise in demand for its products, allowing it to invest in staff, sites and new equipment. Robnor Resins’ growing international presence and the new contracts ...

Published : 7 Feb 2012 10:06am by George Archer View Article

SCA Packaging CFO Lennart Persson and CEO Jan Johansson

SCA Packaging shareholders to vote on DS Smith acquisition

UK-based recycled packaging maker, DS Smith, plans to buy Swedish rival SCA Packaging following a €1.6bn deal that will bring together the second and third-biggest players by volume in the European packaging market. The deal would see ...

Published : 18 Jan 2012 11:35am by Tim Brown View Article

Managing Director Melvin Sinar, who first joined Petford Tools 28 years ago as an engineering and toolmaker apprentice

New injection moulding press helps Petford Tools reach a record £14m year

One of the Black Country’s most enterprising manufacturers has written another chapter to its recent success story after smashing the £14m annual sales barrier for the first time in its 42 year-history. Petford Tools, a ...

Published : 15 Dec 2011 1:08pm by Tim Brown View Article

(l-r) Simon Hartley, of Esterform Packaging, and Matthew Hopkins, Gent Visick

Leeds-based SME secures £5m in factory sale and leaseback

The £5m sale of plastic manufacturer Esterform Packaging’s 100,000 sq ft Leeds premises on Beeston Royds Industrial Estate to an unnamed private investor was completed today. The company has agreed to a 20-year leaseback of ...

Published : 1 Dec 2011 11:22am by Tom Moore View Article

TODS become the first SME to join the National Composites Centre

The composite engineering company are the first SME in the country to join a number of major UK aerospace and industrial giants at the newly established National Composites Centre (NCC) in Bristol. The NCC is ...

Published : 23 Nov 2011 5:35pm by Tom Moore View Article

Who’s heading where in manufacturing?

UK APPOINTMENTS The Board of Directors of Tata Sons unanimously recommended Mr. Cyrus P. Mistry as deputy chairman. He will work with Mr. Ratan N. Tata over the next year and take over from him ...

Published : 23 Nov 2011 3:00pm by Roberto Priolo View Article

Prime Minister focuses on trade deficit at CBI annual conference

The need to reduce Britain’s trade deficit was at the heart of the David Cameron’s address to the CBI’s annual conference. At both the opening and the close of his address Mr Cameron said that ...

Published : 21 Nov 2011 3:45pm by Jane Gray View Article

Export strategy: Details of the CBI’s plans to boost exports

A new report by the CBI and Ernst & Young asks the Government to reform its exports strategy so that companies, especially SMEs, can capitalise on new export markets more effectively than they are currently ...

Published : 21 Nov 2011 9:17am by Will Stirling View Article

Assembling a bike at Hinckley. Triumph exports to 35 countries

New export strategy could boost economy by £20 billion by 2020, claims CBI

CBI’s John Cridland says it’s “now or never” for a credible new exports strategy that focuses on the right products and services, and dismantles domestic barriers, which could add £20 billion to the UK economy ...

Published : 21 Nov 2011 8:58am by Will Stirling View Article

Manufacturing news, articles and insights

Plastics

Plaxica sets ambitious goal to produce renewable plastic

Robnor Resins sees overseas and domestic demand grow by 80%

SCA Packaging shareholders to vote on DS Smith acquisition

New injection moulding press helps Petford Tools reach a record £14m year

Leeds-based SME secures £5m in factory sale and leaseback

TODS become the first SME to join the National Composites Centre

Who’s heading where in manufacturing?

Prime Minister focuses on trade deficit at CBI annual conference

Export strategy: Details of the CBI’s plans to boost exports

New export strategy could boost economy by £20 billion by 2020, claims CBI

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