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When I started working in a commercial role in the Plastics Industry in the late 1980’s the relationship between customers and suppliers was often adversarial, with the general view that [...]

We are delighted to introduce our latest apprentice, Nicole, who joins Plastribution this month having just completed her ‘A’ levels.

This is a fantastic result, which alongside confirmation that we are still the preferred choice for plastics processors*, shows that we continue the tick all the right boxes in terms of our [...]

Metallocene grades of polyethylene for film extrusion have been around for 20 years or so but there is still some resistance to their use based on the premium these materials typically attract [...]

Looking back at the results of our December 2014 customer survey results, it raised the question of how to achieve those small improvements in our processes which have the potential to make big [...]

Whether from the customer’s perspective the investment perceived is as active or passive, time and therefore cost is involved upon the part of the customer and this is often in contrast to the [...]

In this case the customer was a critical supplier of medical equipment to the healthcare sector and was genuinely concerned that if they could not secure on-going supply of PE there was a real [...]

A recent supply problem gave me cause for thought. At the beginning of February one of our suppliers made additional quantities of PP available and through our sales team this was offered to a [...]