RIGID FILM MARKET EUROPE

Competitive pressures drive corporate restructuring / Role of private equity grows / AMI report on top 50 producers

THIN WALLED PACKAGING

Consolidation changes face of European market / Producers react to falling profitability / AMI study

YEAR IN REVIEW

Plastics industry braces for fresh surprises and more business as usual in 2012 / Price volatility and economic uncertainty / For some segments 2011 beats expectations / Fracking and plastic bag ban are key issues

PANNUNION

Follow-up: Squeeze-out by Sun Capital wrapped up

VERIPLAST

Packaging production shifted from Durham in UK to the Netherlands / Faerch Plast buys site

SUN CAPITAL PARTNERS

Packaging: US investment firm exercises squeeze-out of remaining shares in Hungary's Pannunion / Latest in a string of plastics acquisitions

PANNERGY

Remaining plastics holdings are sold / Pannunion awarded to Sun Capital Partners