Incredible India, one of the fastest growing economies is pushing efforts to improve the supply of food and other consumer goods which in turn are main drivers within the packaging industry. “Infinite Opportunities”, this year’s slogan of the PlastIndia has been the leading motto for the Brückner Group’s attendance presenting its innovative solutions for the plastic processing industry, held at New Delhi from Feb. 1st to Feb 6th, 2012 and it has been established as the most important fair for many suppliers within the plastic community at the subcontinent

Flexible Packaging is one of the fastest growing industries in the World. Amongst all packaging material plastic is the fastest growing raw material

After showing stability for two months of this year, the North American polypropylene market returned to the volcanic behavior it displayed in 2011. PP prices have surged an average of 17 cents per lb since Feb.

As one of the premium brands of all electrical injection molding machines, Zhafir Plastics Machinery has founded its subsidiary in India — Plastics Machinery India Private Limited Founded in 2005 in Germany, the Zhafir Group with its present two manufacturing and technology facilities in Ebermannsdorf/Germany and in Ningbo/China and the now newly founded sales and service center in Mumbai/India represents the premium brand of Haitian International — the world’s largest manufacturer of injection molding machines. In 2010, all together approx. 30,000 machines were delivered to customers and in the first half year of 2011 this figure could be repeated with more than 15,000 machines sold despite a difficult market environment

In Southeast Asia, both import and local PP prices have moved higher in the first week after the Chinese New Year holidays, as per Chemorbis.

In a significant step aimed at offering superior products to plastic processors, IndianOil has unveiled high performance Polypropylene grades for the Polymer processors in the injection moulding sector. The new Polypropylene grades – 1110MAS and 2120MC have been developed using cutting edge technology at IndianOil’s state-of-the-art Product Application & Development Centre (PADC) located at Panipat

The global demand for thermoplastics is expected to grow by around 100,000 tons by 2015, driven by the developing economies. Polyethylene comprises 35% of this market and polypropylene is 24%, according to leading market consultant Noru Tsalic of Applied Market Information (AMI). This is an annual increase of 5.6%.

Penford Corporation, a company with significant business and expertise in specialty starches and sustainable bio-products and Novomer Inc., a new materials company pioneering a family of high-performance plastics and polymers using renewable feedstocks such as carbon dioxide, announce that they have entered into a Joint Development Agreement that will leverage the two companies’ core technologies and expertise. he new alliance was created to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative Starch-Polypropylene Carbonate polymer composites

The increasing importance of plastics in the area of agriculture and horticulture has been highlighted in a new in-depth report on the Agricultural films market in Europe by Applied Market Information Ltd. (AMI

Materials company Novomer Inc. has inked a joint development agreement on polymer composites with Penford Corp.