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Plaswood landscaping products used by South Lanarkshire Council as part of their HomeHappening housing improvement programme.

British Polythene Industries PLC (BPI) announces today the proposed closure of its manufacturing facilities in Stockton on Tees with the transfer of all business to other BPI sites.

bpi.films, the UK’s leading manufacturer of stretch, shrink and converter films, has introduced a new DVD dedicated to its Wrapsmartultra product. Launched in 2007, this recent addition to the company’s hand roll range offers all the performance of a 14-micron film but has been down-gauged to just 7 microns allowing it to offer major cost savings and a number of environmental benefits.

British Polythene Industries (BPI), a leading European polythene producer, has today announced that it is to stop using published LDPE price indices when negotiating sales price agreements for products in which more expensive polymers form part of the blend.

SilotitePRO, the innovative new silage stretch film, is an exciting new bale wrapping film combining an impressive 40% extra length (2100m as opposed to 1500m) with a lower film thickness whilst maintaining the essential characteristics of traditional bale wrap such as oxygen permeability, high strength and tear resistance.

To demonstrate its dedication to its customers, bpi.films, the pallet stretch film manufacturer, offer a specialist service aimed at providing necessary wrapping advice to customers using pallet stretch wrap machines.

bpi.films (converter) is a speciality film producer – focusing on one process only - plain film extrusion. In developing films for building products, bpi.films (converter) offers a customer-specific, high-quality, highly consistent, tailored solution thereby providing the best overall value, whether the application is for Surface Protection, Coating/Tapes, Flow-Wrap or Lamination.

In line with its commitment to on-going product development, bpi.industrial has launched the Ventisack – an innovative recyclable polythene film which can incorporate specific venting requirements to create waterproof but breathable heavy duty sacks.

Polytunnels may be an essential tool for UK horticulture but their presence occasionally fuels heated debate amongst local residents and conservationists who can view them as 'a blot on the landscape’. 

bpi.films has unveiled an exciting new stretchwrap product that will make pallet wrapping easier and more cost-effective as well as more environmentally friendly.

bpi.industrial, a division of British Polythene Industries plc, is launching the innovative, recyclable Pharmasac range which has been developed specifically to meet hygiene critical, internal transfer applications within the pharmaceutical industry.

Europe’s largest recycler of polythene, bpi.recycled products has given the black bin bag a makeover to make it more environmentally friendly. The company, which has a long track record of taking waste polythene and giving it a new lease of life as garden furniture, planters, building films and other products, has just introduced The Green Sack – an altogether greener refuse sack product.
 

Promopack Digital Studios, part of BPI Consumer, a leading supplier to the packaging industry in the United Kingdom, recently was honoured in the Notable Achievement category at the 20th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation for its use of the DuPont™ Cyrel® FAST thermal process. 

The impact of continually rising input costs has led British Polythene Industries (BPI) to review its pricing structure with effect from 1st May 2008.The Group has seen costs increasing across a broad range of products and services it uses including energy, transport, packaging, masterbatches, additives, inks and printing materials and now sees no alternative but to increase it’s own sales price levels by up to £80 per tonne.

As the price of animal feed continues to rise, a leading manufacturer of crop packaging solutions is taking steps to help farmers maintain control of their winter feeding costs.

The UK’s leading manufacturer of agricultural films, bpi.agri, is stepping up its on-going activities to help farmers operate as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible when it comes to agricultural films. The company, which produces such well known bale wraps as Silotite, Visqueen Poliwrap and Polybale, has recently issued a number of top tips which provide expert advice on how to prepare your waste polythene for recycling - quickly, easily and cost effectively.

bpi.formipac has undertaken further investmentin a new state-of-the-art extrusion line at its Zele (Belgium) location. The new line exclusively produces silage stretch film products,  increasing existing stretch film production capacity at this site.

As a result of major recent investment of some £2 million our farm plastic recycling facility in Dumfries has the capacity to process a 30,000 tonnes per year of agricultural waste plastic.

BPI consumer embraces the combined challenges of providing film packaging which reduces food waste and satisfies the demanding response times required in the retail supply chain.

With more than fifty years experience in the construction industry, the Visqueen team can interpret a wide variety of site conditions in order to provide the right products for the job.