07 Sep 2026 // Rutland Plastics Supports Future Designers, Polymer Price Outlook, Materials Innovation, and RGE’s US Expansion

07 Sep 2026 // Rutland Plastics Supports Future Designers, Polymer Price Outlook, Materials Innovation, and RGE’s US Expansion

In today’s brief:

🎓 Rutland Plastics offers a two-week work placement to a finalist in the 2027 Design Innovation in Plastics competition.

📈 Plastribution expects most September polymer prices to roll over, although tight LDPE supply could bring increases of £20 to £40 per tonne.

🧪 Innovate UK invests £2 million in feasibility studies supporting advanced materials innovation and commercialisation.

🌎 UK-owned RGE Group opens a new injection moulding facility in Texas to support its North American expansion.

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Jess Clarke

Jess Clarke

Jess Clarke is Managing Director of PlastikCity and PlastikMedia, with more than a decade’s experience in marketing and promoting businesses across the UK and Irish plastics industry. Jess joined PlastikCity as its first employee in 2013, working part-time while completing her law degree at Nottingham Trent University. She went on to become Marketing Manager, then Communications Director, before taking over as Managing Director in September 2023.

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