Justyna Elliott, Senior Business Development Executive at the British Plastics Federation, reports on the increasing opportunities for the plastics industry in Indonesia – and how UK firms can look to benefit.
Here, Dr Brigitte Dero, VinylPlus General Manager, looks at PVC's role in a sustainable future; highlighting the importance of upcoming international events, the achievements made so far and what is yet to come.
The Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) has recently published a roadmap spanning 2015-2020 that looks at elastomers and rubber. Here, Dr Sally Beken looks at the potential of the materials in numerous applications.
With low energy and labour costs, reindustrialisation and re-shoring some of the key growth drivers behind the boom in the US plastics market, the keenness to seize a slice of the action by exhibitors at NPE 2015 was evident.
In his regular, exclusive column for BP&R, Philip Law, Director-General of the British Plastics Federation, discusses the new Education and Training Committee, dedicated to bridging the industry’s ever-worrying skills gap.
Adam Hooper, Operations Director at Southampton-based Martin’s Rubber, flies the flag for the material’s role in some of our most exciting applications…even if we don’t always realise it's there.
Does design drive demand? This month, polymer expert and technical blog author, Dr Charlie Geddes, looks at whether styrenic thermoplastics will evolve further if demand warrants it.
Valeria Arrighi, Associate Professor and Acting Head of Materials Chemistry at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, shares her opinion on the five types of polymer that will shape the future.
Defined as the largest plastics, petrochemicals and rubber industry trade show in the MENA countries, Arabplast 2015 describes itself as the “fastest” way to enter the vast region’s growing plastics, petrochemicals and rubber industries.
Ruth Price, Business Development Director at plastic packaging manufacturer, Sharpak Aylesham, talks about how the packaging industry has continued to develop in order to meet shifting consumer demands.
A heat-absorbing panorama roof made of shatterproof polycarbonate has been added to the latest edition of Smart’s ‘fortwo’ vehicle to form an extended windscreen.
In his last blog of 2014, Philip Law, Director-General of the British Plastics Federation, takes a balanced look at highlights that have boosted the industry over the last 12 months, as well as potential threats to continued and sustained success.
