Members Newsletter 12th August 2014

Horners Awards Extension: 22nd August Deadline
The deadline for the 'Horners Award for Plastics Innovation and Design' and the 'Horners Bottlemakers Award' has been extended to 22nd August. Make sure you get your entries in as soon as possible!

BPF Polymer Price Profile for Q2 2014
The Q2 polymer price data is now available exclusively for all BPF members to download. The report contains Europe-wide bulk buy prices on 11 grades of bulk polymers and 9 grades of bulk technical polymers and includes prices going back to 1993.

BPF Launches New Moulders and Specialist Processors Group Case Study Page
The BPF has launched a new initiative for the Moulders and Specialist Processors Group: a dedicate case studies page on which our Members will promote their innovative design and products.

Display your Catalogues at the Largest Plastics Event in Turkey
The BPF is co-ordinating a UK Pavilion at the largest plastics trade show in Turkey, PlastEurasia (4th - 7th December 2014). Members who are not exhibiting can sign up to the Catalogue show offer, where the BPF will distribute your brochures and collect business leads on your behalf. For more information and to sign up for the catalogue show (deadline is the 5th September 2014), please call Alex on 0207 457 5001 or e-mail: [email protected]

Construction Industry Forecast 2014-2018
The Construction Products Association's Summer Forecast, recently published, highlight that the construction industry will grow about 10% in two years. Executive summary can be found here. For the full 72 pages report, please contact [email protected]

Leafield Environmental Steps up to the Global Recycling Challenge
Leafield Environmental is attracting lots of interest from overseas markets on the back of strong demand worldwide for good quality recycling and litter products.

PolySolve Video Released
PolySolve Video ReleasedThe PolySolve project, which is funded under the FP7 Research for SME Associations scheme, will be completing in November 2014. As we move forward towards completion, we are increasingly looking at the possible exploitation of the project. 

NEW Publications from WRAP: Using Recycled Polymers in New Products - a Business Opportunity
The BPF has helped provide information for this document and it includes a link to the BPFRG membership list in the section, ‘Where can recycled plastics be sourced’.

Seminars
Chemicals in Plastics
(23 Oct 2014 - The BPF Offices, London)

REPLAST 2014
(6 Nov 2014 - TBA)

Plastics in Automotive
(13 Nov 2014 - The BPF Offices, London)

Trade Shows
Plastimagen - UKT&I Grant £3000
(18 - 21 Nov 2014 - Mexico City, Mexico)

PlastEurasia
(04 - 07 Dec 2014 - Istanbul, Turkey)

PlastIndia - UKT&I Grant £3000
(05 - 10 Feb 2015 - New Delhi, India)

PLAST
(05 - 09 May 2015 - Milan, Italy)

Industry Events
Engineering Design Show
(22 - 23 Oct 2014 - Ricoh Arena, Coventry)

Interplas
(30 Sep - 2 Oct 2014 - NEC, Birmingham)

Advanced Engineering UK 2014
(11 Nov - 12 Nov 2014 - NEC, Birmingham)

FDF Sustainability
(21 Oct - 2 Oct 2014 - British Museum, London)


BPF Annual Dinner
BPF Annual Dinner
(16 Oct 2014 - Lancaster London Hotel, London)