PRW Daily E-Mail: BASF's EPS business set for cuts and closures

Tuesday, 18th September 2012

BASF’s EPS business set for cuts and closures
Sliding margins and overcapacity in the EPS market has forced BASF into realigning its Styropor business, the company has revealed. This will include the closure of its EPS plants in Pasir Gudang, Malaysia and Thane, India. ...more

SMEs are ignorant of alternative financing
The UK’s SMEs are missing out on business finance with many resorting to traditional bank overdrafts or personal sources of cash, according to research organisation Experian. ...more

Make it in Great Britain Challenge reveals winner
A Preston-based group of BAE Systems apprentices has today (18 September) been declared the winner of the Make it in Great Britain Challenge. ...more

HSE warns recycling industry over summer death toll
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warning the waste and recycling industry to renew efforts to improve worker safety, following a spate of deaths during the summer. ...more

BPF has the packaging industry in Notts
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has assembled a line-up of expert speakers to provide an examination of the issues currently facing the UK's plastics packaging industry. ...more

Booming demand sees Solvay build Spire in India
Solvay is increasing capacity by 70% as its Panoli plant, India, for its Spire polyketone materials – PEEK and PEAK. The project, which is already underway, will be completed by mid 2013. ...more

Gurit draws blades with European transport partner
Gurit has formed a partnership with German tooling frame and component manufacturer Hawart Sondermaschinenbau for the transportation of moulds and wind energy rotor blades. ...more

Business Features
Tax oughtn't to be taxing
Business rates form a large part of a company's fixed costs. Many believe that once received a rate demand must be paid without question, yet the system has flexibility built into it ...more

Champ Chat
Made In Japan? Not anymore, it would seem
Such was Japan’s rate of economic growth throughout the late 1960s and into the 1970s that it seemed as if everything one touched was made in that country; cars, cameras, leisure products, electrical goods, live rock albums. ...more

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