News : bpi.visqueen horticultural products

Leading manufacturer of horticultural films, bpi.visqueen is playing a key role in a ground breaking international research project. Through its continuing working relationship with Lancaster University, the business is one of only two commercial partners contributing to an EU COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research) project into the regulatory role of UV light on crop growth and...

British Polythene Industries (BPI) PLC, leading European manufacturer of polythene films, bags and sacks, is celebrating a relatively rare achievement for British PLCs. The Greenock based company, which operates from sites across the UK, Europe, North America and China, has recently received its Centenary Certificate from Companies House.

Issued to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the company’s registration,...

As the nation’s fruit industry gears up for Fruit Focus 2010, bpi.visqueen horticultural products has announced its plans for the leading one day technical event. At the show (which takes place on the 21st July at the East Malling Research Centre in Kent), the UK’s only remaining large-scale manufacturer of horticultural films will not only showcase its wide range of technically advanced products but update the...

Fruit Focus has always been the ideal event for growers looking to discover new innovations and initiatives able to make their businesses more productive and more profitable. This year however, those looking to make green advances will also be catered for thanks to the appearance of bpi.recycled products.

This organisation, which ranks as Europe’s largest recycler of waste polythene, will be appearing alongside its...

A progressive charity which employs horticulture as a technique in helping people to overcome life-controlling addictions has benefitted from a donation by a kind hearted manufacturer.

bpi.visqueen horticultural products - the UK’s only large-scale manufacturer of horticultural films - has supplied a number of rolls of its Politherm product for use by the Gilead Foundations at the charity’s organic farm near...

To ensure its continued ability to offer cutting edge products to the world’s horticultural industry, bpi.visqueen is once again sponsoring a PhD student.

The business, which ranks as Britain’s only large scale producer of horticultural films, is supporting Eslam Elfadly who is currently at Lancaster University researching what effects differing UV environments have on the growth and production of peppers. Eslam...

Growers looking to demonstrate the strength of their commitment to the environment and play a greater part in ‘closing the loop’ on waste by keeping reusable polythene in circulation and out of landfill are about to benefit from a new drive by a major recycler.
It comes as British-based bpi.recycled products, the largest reprocessor of waste polythene in Europe, reveals it is increasing efforts to secure...