EU ROUND UP – MAJOR NEW RESEARCH SPENDING PROGRAMME WILL BENEFIT PLASTICS COMPANIES
December 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INNOVATIVE plastics companies will be able to apply for European Union (EU) funding for cutting edge research and development projects from the new EU research programme called Horizon 2020 - which will run from 2014 to 2020. The European Commission has set out budgets totalling Euro EUR80 billion to push forward the EU's scientific and research strategies. Within this, EUR4.2 billion has been set aside for research on nanotechnology and advanced materials, advanced manufacturing and processing - of critical importance to the plastics industry. ...
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