Thursday, May 7, 2026

Special Article

Biax film production for sustainability and environment

Brückner Maschinenbau, the marketer for film stretching lines, is a member of the Brückner Group, Germany, a worldwide leading supplier of tailor-made engineering solutions and services for the plastics and packaging industry, with more than 2,400 employees. Other members of the group include Brückner...

Borealis And TOPAS Advanced Polymers Currently Developing New Class Of Engineering Material For Film Capacitor Applications

Borealis, a provider of innovative polyolefins solutions; and TOPAS Advanced Polymers, the leading producer and marketer of cyclic olefin copolymers (COC), have started collaboration on the development of a new class of engineering materials for capacitor film applications that will bridge the current performance...

BASF Venture Capital Invests In Indian Hydroponics Pioneer Urbankisaan

BASF Venture Capital GmbH (BVC) is investing in the Indian startup UrbanKisaan, which specializes in hydroponic cultivation of various types of vegetables, greens and herbs in tropical urban environments. This is Bvc’s first investment in an early-stage business focusing on India. Conceptualized in 2017,...

B.i.g. YARNS Awarded HPR Status For Second European Plant

B.i.g YARNS is an independent entity within the Belgian family-owned business Beaulieu International Group and part of its Engineered Products Business Unit. It is a leading manufacturer of polyamide (PA) and polypropylene (PP) yarns for contract, automotive, residential and technical applications. Its products are...

New General Manager appointed at Avery Dennison Graphics Solutions EMENA

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and manufacturing company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials. The company’s products, which are used in nearly every major industry, include pressure-sensitive materials for labels...

Alpla, Ecohelp and Upt launch joint PET recycling operation in Romania

The Alpla Group, the global packaging solutions and recycling specialist, is investing in the construction of a recycling plant in Targu Mures, Romania as part of a joint venture with its partners. The plastic granulate recycled there in the future will come from PET...