The Grafe Group, located in Blankenhain, is stepping up its activities in southern Europe. “We’ve hired two new staff members for Italy and Spain to take care of our customers in both these market regions“, explains export manager Johannes Grau. Ivan Iarossi will organize his work from his home office placed in Bergamo while Constanti Ruiz Daura...
Chem-Trend, a global leader in the development, production and marketing of high-performance purging compounds, release agents and mould maintenance products, today announced it has acquired the Ultra Purge business from Moulds Plus International to widen its product portfolio for thermoplastics processing operations...
Assocomaplast (the national trade association, member of Confindustria, including over 160 manufacturers of plastics and rubber processing machinery, equipment and moulds) has developed Istat foreign trade data for the sector in the first half of 2016 and compared them with those for the same period in 2015...
On Monday, 12 September, RadiciGroup Performance Plastics signed an agreement for the purchase of the Engineering Polymer Solutions business of the American company Invista. With this acquisition, RadiciGroup - a world leading producer of nylon, PBT, TPE and POM engineering plastics - will be able to further strengthen and expand its...
A new major expansion project involving the engineering department has been started at the south wing of the Comerio Ercole headquarters in Busto Arsizio (near Varese). The project, supported with a strategic investment of about 1.2 million euros, is linked to the development and engineering of new products and services that today are...
Sace and Simest, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti Group companies specialized in support to the exports and internationalization of Italian businesses, have announced a major integrated initiative to assist the expansion in Turkey of Serioplast, a Bergamo-based group leader in the production of rigid plastic containers for consumer products...
On June 17 and 18, Wilfried and Martha Ensinger, joining with employees from home and abroad, long-term customers and suppliers as well as an array of honored guests from the world of politics and business, celebrated the 50th company anniversary. Founded in 1966 by Wilfried Ensinger in a garage in Ehningen, today the family firm is an...
On August 18-19 and September 21-22, Mumbai is due to host the fourth editions of two congresses, organised by ElitePlus, which will focus, respectively, on the injection-blow molding of containers and the extrusion of film for flexible containers. The events will deal with all the aspects of production, from the raw materials that can be used to the various...
Barnes Group, an international aerospace and industrial manufacturing and service provider, has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Adval Tech’s molds business (Foboha), focused on the development and manufacture of complex plastic injection molds for packaging, medical, consumer, and automotive...
PET rigid packaging technology specialist Sipa is glad to announce that a legal action against it and a previous development partner in PET preform production technology has ended in Sipa favor. The court action had been taken by Husky Injection Molding Systems against Athena Automation and Sipa over the alleged misuse of...
To meet the increased requirements for chemical resistance and thermal stability, Gummiwerk Kraiburg has expanded its product portfolio to include perfluorelastomer based compounds (FFKM). Applications include high-performance perfluorelastomer products such as seals and membranes. These compounds are used primarily...
On July 1, Massimo Lavazza took up the office of managing director at Pomini Rubber & Plastics, a company of the HF Mixing Group. Lavazza succeeds Otto Huth, after having served as COO since 2007 and having acquired a 26-year experience working both at Pomini and the HF Mixing Group...
A historic Italian industrial enterprise with 2,985 employees and a global production and sales presence, RadiciGroup in 2015 recorded consolidated sales revenue of 1,011 million euros, slightly less (-1.37%) than in 2014. Sales volume increased (+3% over 2014), as did gross operating margin, which was 103 million euros (+37% compared to 2014)...
On August 18-19 and September 21-22, Mumbai is due to host the fourth editions of two congresses, organised by ElitePlus, which will focus, respectively, on the injection-blow molding of containers and the extrusion of film for flexible containers. The events will deal with all the aspects of production, from the raw materials that...
A sad awakening in Pont Canavese for 127 workers. The rumours of the past months now appear to have come true. Sandretto has gone into liquidation. According to local press reports, the employees have been informed about the fact in a letter from the Belgian mother company, Photonike Capital...
The official celebrations for the 40 anniversary of MacPlas took place on June 28, in the splendid setting of the Relais Franciacorta hotel in Colombaro Corte Franca, near Brescia. A constant presence in the technical press field since the spring of 1976, the magazine launched by Claudio Celata - who has been its lead editor for over 35 years...
It is rare that a privately owned company feels the need to publicly deny takeover rumors, no matter if circulated in perfect good faith or supported by assumed strategic values, but when the gossip becomes an annoying chatter, then blown film extruder manufacturer Macchi (Venegono Inferiore, Italy) has to step up to stop the rumor mill...
The annual member assembly of Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association belonging to Confindustria, which groups together over 160 makers of machinery, moulds and equipment for plastics and rubber) took place on June 28, 2016 at the Relais Franciacorta in Corte Franca (province of Brescia). During the assembly the new...
German plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers expect sales to increase by 2 per cent in real terms in the current year with a further 2 per cent rise anticipated for 2017. “Back in October 2015 the association’s forecast pointed to sales in 2016 remaining broadly unchanged from the very promising level seen in 2015,” explained...
