PRW Daily E-Mail: RPC's Ron Marsh to retire next year

Thursday, 4th October 2012 RPC's Ron Marsh to retire next year RPC Group chief executive who has managed the business since 1993 and led a management buyout of the firm in 1991 is set to retire on 1 October 2013 ...more Light touch for solar plane construction Bayer MaterialScience is expanding its involvement in the Solar Impulse ‘fuel-less’ aircraft project – supplying both materials and design knowhow. ...more European Commission gets its second act together The UK government has welcomed the publication of Single Market Act II by the European Commission, which sets out a number of proposals to improve the way that the single market works. ...more Victrex to build new £90m PEEK plant The plant, which is expected to come online in early 2015, is Victrex’s third on the Lancashire site and will raise the group’s annual PEEK capacity to more than 7,000 tonnes, up 141% on current levels. ...more German auto supplier to build £7.4m US plant German auto supplier Wirthwein is expanding its North American production with a £7.4m plant in North Carolina. ...more Engel shows moulding for electronic parts Engel demonstrated its capability in moulding very thin wall parts for electronic products at its symposium in St Valentin, Austria. ...more CCE acts to convert green thinking into direct action Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) has unveiled two initiatives aimed at improving recycling behaviour and infrastructure. ...more Persistent polymer price spiral dogs beleaguered buyers Polymer prices increased across the board in September. With production cutbacks, further plant outages and a lack of imported material putting a lid on supply, buyers who needed additional stock had no choice but to pay hefty price increases.  ...more Video strikes the right note for vinyl success The BPF’s vinyls group has launched a video that looks at the savings achievable by choosing PVC products. ...more Business Features Dealing with a company in distress The Insolvency Service reported business failures rose by a third to 4,000 in the last quarter. But there are ways firms can protect themselves when dealing with such companies ...more Champ Chat There's an old saying about statistics... You cannot click open a business media website or turn the pages of a newspaper without seeing the latest survey proclaiming this or that about the health – or otherwise – of the UK economy and those of our neighbours, partners and competitors ...more Clark's Place Plastic tech takes off into the wild blue yonder… We take so much of what our industry achieves for granted so I was delighted to be reminded of the ‘clever stuff’ last week by Bayer MaterialScience. ...more IMPORTANT INFORMATION: You are receiving this message as a registered user of PRW.com, the web site of Plastics and Rubber Weekly. If you no longer wish to receive news messages from us, please click here. Copyright 2012 Crain Communication Ltd. Online Editor:    Anthony Clark   aclark@crain.com    +44(0)20 8253 9613   4th Floor, Carolyn House, 26 Dingwall Road, Croydon CR0 9XF, UK To unsubscribe click here To subscribe to PRW NEWS click here