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	<title>Packaging News &#124; Jobs &#124; Production &#124; Design &#124; Innovation &#187; Flexible Plastics</title>
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		<title>Barry Twigg &#124; A look at how the flexibles market has evolved</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As National Flexible celebrates 20 years, chief executive Barry Twigg reflects on some of the monumental changes which have taken place in flexibles since ]]></description>
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		<title>Pulp and paper chemicals could aid bioplastics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Corbin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organic chemicals derived from a waste product from the pulp and paper industry could be used in the manufacture of high performance bioplastics]]></description>
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		<title>Clondalkin nets €145m in business sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 07:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clondalkin has announced the sales of distribution business Van der Windt and a raft of its North American flexible packaging businesses in deals totaling €145m]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Ireland bag charge goes live today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 11:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Chadwick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shoppers in Northern Ireland are being charged 5p for single use bags from today]]></description>
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		<title>Plastic industry sends wish list to Chancellor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 08:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Gyekye</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plastic industry trade bodies have sent a wish list to Chancellor George Osborne ahead of his Budget on 20 March]]></description>
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		<title>Shale gas boost could lead to cheap polymer, says BPI</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Gyekye</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe could benefit from large quantities of cheap polymer products, within a few years, due to North America’s current investment in shale gas, according to British Polythene Industries]]></description>
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		<title>Linpac helps make recycling breakthrough with new plastics colourant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Linpac Packaging has said it has helped stop black plastic packaging being sent to landfill or incineration with the development of a new colourant that can be detected by Near Infrared (NIR) technology]]></description>
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		<title>BPF’s Davis defends plastics on BBC’s Newsnight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liz Gyekye</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British Plastic Federation’s Peter Davis appeared on BBC’s Newsnight programme last night defending the plastics industry on a report about plastics in the oceans]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Laurier: oxo-bio has a role in the search for sustainability</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oxo-biogradable is inexpensive and can play a big part in a sustainable future according to Symphony Environment Technologies' Michael Laurier]]></description>
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		<title>Printpack&#8217;s UK sites achieve zero waste to landfill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Brooks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flexible packaging group Printpack has revealed that its two UK sites have moved to sending zero waste to landfill]]></description>
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