Bioplastics demand certainty
Speaking at the Energy and Circular Economy Days in Trevi (Perugia), Luca Bianconi, president of Assobioplastiche, reiterated the main obstacles hindering European and Italian investment in the biopla ...
Industry against increase in plastics tax
Three associations of European plastics manufacturers and processors - EuPC, PlasticsEurope and Petcore Europe - are calling on the European Commission not to increase the European tax that already af ...
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15% tariffs
An agreement has finally been reached: goods imported from the European Union into the United States will be subject to a basic tariff of 15%, which will also apply to the automotive sector (currently ...
Brussels reacts to the crisis in the chemical industry
The European Commission has presented its Action Plan for the Chemical Industry, a response to the relocation and haemorrhaging of production capacity which Cefic estimates will amount to 5% of the to ...
EU Plastic Tax
In the proposal for the 2028-2034 long-term budget announced yesterday by the European Commission, under the section “own resources”, there is also an increase in the EU Plastics Tax, which would rise ...
Greenplast and Ipack Ima figures
The organisers have released the results of The Innovation Alliance, which brought together four trade fairs in Milan at the end of May: GreenPlast, Ipack-Ima, Print4All and Intralogistica Italia.
Container freight rates jump at the beginning of June
The truce on tariffs announced by Trump continues to fuel the rush of shipments from China to the United States and Europe via container shipping.
Fakuma fills the booths
As is well known, the Fakuma fair is not held since the K years in Düsseldorf and, as a result, the next edition, which bears the number thirty, will be held next year, from October 12 to 16 October 2 ...
Trump Announces Universal Tariffs
In the end, they have arrived. The reciprocal tariffs announced by the Trump administration affect over one hundred countries—but not all to the same extent.