Leading global private investment firm, Bain Capital Private Equity announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Italmatch Chemicals, a global specialty chemical additive manufacturer, from Ardian, a world‐leading private investment house. Founded in 1997 by current CEO Sergio Iorio, Italmatch is a leading global manufacturer...
The Statistical Studies Centre of Amaplast (Italian trade association, member of Confindustria, bringing together about 170 manufacturers of plastics and rubber processing machinery, equipment and moulds) has analysed foreign trade data published by Istat for the first quarter of 2018. A comparison with the same period in 2017 reveals...
Goebel IMS expands its global market share and keeps growing continuously. The leading manufacturer of slitting and winding solutions has been recording an increase in international orders across all industries for many years, including the American market which is quite significant. Therefore, Goebel IMS is extending its activities and...
A joint venture agreement has been recently signed between Coim and Atmosa Petrochemie. Atmosa, located in Vienna, was established in 1995 and it is among the major independent producers of phthalic anhydride in Europe. The high quality of the product allowed Atmosa to establish itself as a reliable long term supplier to...
It is with great sadness that Covestro and their employees have learnt about the death of their CSO (Chief Sustainability Officer) Richard Northcote. He passed away unexpectedly at the age of 58. “We will all miss him more than words can express. He was not just our inspiring colleague, but our good friend as well,” said Covestro CEO Markus Steilemann...
At the general assembly on 15 June 2018 in Linz, the representatives of the member firms of Euromap elected Presidency and General Secretary for the period 2018 to 2021: Luciano Anceschi, Tria, Cologno Monzese (President); Michael Baumeister, Brückner Maschinenbau, Siegsdorf (Vice President); Thorsten Kühmann, VDMA, Frankfurt (Secretary General)...
The General Meeting of Amaplast took place on June 14 in Linz (Austria), appointing the nine members of the General Board for the 2018-2020 term. The decision to hold the meeting of the association outside Italy was dictated by the fact that an Euromap meeting had been scheduled to take place in Linz on June 15. In this way the...
A new historical phase has begun for image promotion and contact with customers: today, the use of digital platforms seems to be much more practical and effective. The decision was made as a result of a complex reflection and evaluation process that directly involved the Group’s top management: Marangoni has decided to rethink...
On July 5-6, the 6th edition of the meeting organized by Eliteplus will take place in Mumbai. On this occasion several topics related to injection moulding (first day) and blow moulding, rotomoulding, and PET (second day) will be treated. These sectors represent the 25% of the Indian processing industry...
The Berker brand belongs to the Hager Group and stands for switch series and building technology systems. The products, for which the high-quality plastic components have now been produced for the last 40 years by Berker using injection moulding machines from Arburg, are in use worldwide. A very special event in the...
“An innovative vision of design where light is able to generate emotion and interaction”. This phrase perfectly fits Artemide’s presentation of Ameluna, the lamp designed in partnership with Mercedes Benz Style. Artemide and Mercedes Benz are leaders in their respective fields and the development of...
A strongly positive outcome for the eighteenth Plast, the international exhibition for the plastics and rubber industries, which took place at the Fiera Milano fairgrounds in Rho-Pero from 29 May to 1 June 2018. “It couldn’t have gone better. Our organizational office is quite satisfied with the outcome of the exhibition for at least two reasons...
K 2019 is firmly set to repeat the vastly successful performance of K 2016. Now that the official registration deadline of the most important international trade show for the plastics and rubber industries has passed, it is obvious that the exhibition venue at Düsseldorf, Germany, will be booked out from 16 until 23 October 2019, and K 2019, like its...
Plast 2018 is taking place at the Fiera Milano facilities in Rho-Pero (Milan) from Tuesday, May 29, to Friday, June 1, 2018. Organized by Promaplast, Plast is the preeminent European event this year for the plastics and rubber industry, embracing the entire production chain from raw materials to semi-finished and finished products, from...
The 2017 Financial Statement for Sacmi Imola shows higher sales and an increased gross operating margin with respect to 2016. Like its parent company, the Group as a whole closed the year by improving on the previous year’s performance, with sales touching 1.434 billion euros; the net consolidated result was over 35 million, also on the rise...
A new marketing and communication specialist just joined Colines. Giuseppe Maddaluno has a specific communication experience with more than ten years of journalism activity both for local and national newspapers, radio and TV. He joined the professional register for journalists in 2010 and got experience also as a...
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag has set up a new subsidiary to service customers in the Italian market, effective May 1, 2018. As part of this measure, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Italia will take over the tried-and-trusted workforce from its former Italian representation, Macam and employ additional personnel for sales, application technology and after-sales service...
A highly successful Chinaplas 2018 concluded its four-day show on April 27, 2018, in Shanghai. The rainy weather prior to the opening of the 32nd edition of show did not hamper the enthusiasm of visitors, who were inspired by smart manufacturing, innovative materials, and green solutions. A total of 180,701 professional buyers from all over the...
An important objective has just been reached by Italian company Frigel Firenze, a leader in the field of industrial refrigeration systems: with a view to creating an increasingly important point of reference in the global industrial refrigeration sector, it has bought out the company Green Box, of Padua (Italy). The operation involved 100% of the Green Box...
