To avoid a repeat of last year's spate of force majeure announcements in Europe, Germany's plastic packaging industry association Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen (IK, Bad Homburg; www.kunststoffverpackungen.de) has underlined the need for cooperation between raw material producers and plastics processors. Laying the foundation, IK president Roland Roth has met with Javier Constante, commercial vice president of Packaging & Specialty Plastics EMEA at Dow (Midland, Michigan / USA; www.dow.com). The two men agreed that the future of the plastics industry can only be shaped successfully through mutual efforts.
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