28 Oct 2026 // Plastics Import Tariff Relief, Sierra 57 Promotion, FANUC and Hitachi’s AI Partnership, and Digital Skills

PlastikMedia: The Morning Brief · Oct 28, 2026 · 2m

In today’s brief:

📦 Plastics Import Tariff Relief: The UK Government extends tariff suspensions on more than 250 products until December 2028, providing greater cost certainty for importers of eligible plastics and chemicals.

👤 Sierra 57 Promotes Vince Green: The new Technical and Compliance Manager brings almost 32 years of moulding experience to supporting training quality, technical standards, and programme development.

🤖 FANUC and Hitachi’s AI Partnership: The companies will test adaptive robots for tasks including parts handling and production changeovers, with customer deployment…