The risks of export duties
The American policy on duties, America First Trade Policy, announced in recent days by the Trump administration, risks having heavy repercussions on European and Italian industry, as noted in a recent ...
Slight increase in prices for flexible packaging
The Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE) Association has published data for 2024 regarding the price trends of the main raw materials and semi-finished products used in flexible packaging.
K2025 catalogue is online
Nine months before the gates open, the catalogue for K2025, the plastics and rubber exhibition in Düsseldorf from 8 to 15 October 2025, is online.
Freight rates rise again
After a difficult year, container freight rates from China to Europe have risen again in recent days, online magazine TrasportoEuropa reported, citing the index compiled by Drewry.
Two companies out of three do not find the figures they are looking for
Confindustria confirms in a recent survey what companies in the rubber-plastics sector already know, often because they have experienced it themselves: two out of three companies are unable to find th ...
Container Freight rates rise again
As reported by the online magazine TrasportoEuropa, citing the findings of the World Container Index, in the last week of October, average spot rates for container transport have changed sign and, aft ...
German plastics in trouble
Due to the stagnation affecting German industry, in two years - from 2021 to 2023 - plastics production in Germany has plummeted by -17% and processing by -8.5%.