According to forecasts by the Tami (Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry) plastic materials machinery committee, 70% of injection machines smaller than 1600 tons in operation in the country will, within a decade or so, be electric-type ones, a trend that will also see local manufacturers...
Starting from January 22, 2015, the online catalogue of Plast 2015 exhibitors is online and it can be consulted through Expopage portal, according to search criteria available in the website of Plast. It will assure a great visibility to the exhibitors, well beyond the five days of the fair itself, until the...
One of the Italian companies named national champion at the eighth edition of the European Business Awards was Amut, manufacturer of extrusion lines, thermoforming machines and recycling plants. And Amut is now in the running for the final prize, the national Ruban d’Honneur. “The European Business Awards...
As preannounced here on MacPlas Online (November 4, 2014), Gerd Liebig remained in the plastics sector and has recently joined Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery. On January 19, in fact, the latter company announced the appointment of Liebig as Chief Sales Officer (CSO) from April 1st 2015...
According to the reports and estimates provided by the market research company Smithers Pira, the market share of plastics in the Mexican packaging segment, which in 2012 reached 27.7%, compared to the 25.1% recorded in 2010, will show a growth rate exceeding 3% at least until 2017. This development will be driven...
Effective January 1, 2015, Reifenhäuser Kiefel Extrusion, the leading manufacturer of blown film extrusion lines has changed its name to Reifenhäuser Blown Film. Since 2009, the company belongs to the Troisdorf/North Rhine-Westphalia-based Reifenhäuser Group that underlines again the full integration of the company...
On the occasion of the closing of the editorial office of MacPlas Online for Christmas holidays, the updating of the website will be suspended until January 7 and the next English newsletter will be sent on January 7. We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.
Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association, belonging to Confindustria, which groups together some 170 machinery manufacturers) has compared Istat (the Italian institute of statistics) foreign trade data for January-September of the current year with data for the same period in 2013 and confirms further growth in...
Moretto Group opens its new branch, in Columbus, Ohio, continuing the build-up in local support for its world leading solutions. With over 30 years experience in the developing and manufacturing of plastics automation, Moretto Group wants to develop its local presence and consolidate a strong relationship...
According to data put together by SPI (Society of the Plastics Industry), US manufacturers of plastic and rubber processing machinery are currently recording increasing turnovers. In the third quarter of 2014, sales increased by 6% compared with the second quarter, in which they had recorded practically the same levels as in January-March...
The honour of being posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame was bestowed by the Plastics Industry Trade Association and the Plastics Academy on six individuals during Antec 2014 in Las Vegas. One of the inductees was Hans Reifenhäuser, entrepreneur and long-time president of Reifenhäuser Group, who deceased in 1999...
Effective January 1, 2015, Gerold Schley will become president and CEO of the battenfeld-cincinnati group. Following Jürgen Arnold’s resignation, the company’s CFO Michael von Cappeln has acted as interim president and CEO. Gerold Schley has previously held several leading positions in the...
Dolci Extrusion and Bielloni Converting have merged to create a new industrial enterprise named Dolci Bielloni. The newborn company will benefit from the synergy between the two brands to provide increasingly detailed, fast and effective service, optimizing the production time for high-tech systems as well as time-to-market...
The specialty chemicals group, Italmatch Chemicals, has successfully completed the acquisition of all shares of GRS Chemical Technologies, a company with manufacturing base in Naples (Italy), specialized in water soluble polymers and fuel related cleaning technologies. Through the acquisition...
Shanghai is the venue, from 3 to 5 December, for the fourteenth Rubbertech fair, while Istanbul is hosting, from 4 to 7 December, the twenty-fourth PlastEurasia exhibition. The first is an interesting event for the rubber processing technology sector in China, while the second is a key event for the plastics and rubber sector in Turkey...
In the wake of the good result recorded in 2012, Rubber, the fair dedicated to the rubber industry, will be returning to Plast 2015, the event scheduled to be held at the Fiera Milano exhibition centre from 5 to 9 May next year. Rubber was already a great success at the last Plast fair, which saw its return after an absence of...
Xtreme Sincro is the name of the integrated plant for the production of PET bottles introduced by Sipa at Brau Beviale 2014, the exhibition dedicated to the beverage field held in Nuremberg on November 11-13. The system combines the injection-compression of preforms and the stretch-blow moulding...
A subsidiary of B-Tec, Tecno System, has recently announced that it has purchased the Divisione Meccanica operations from TPV Compound. As the Tecno System management explains, “the strategic goal of the project is to safeguard and unite important know-how in the production of extrusion lines by TPV Divisione Meccanica...
Fifty companies will be selected by Promaplast, organizer of Plast 2015, and ComoNext, scientific-technological park of Lomazzo (Como), to participate free of charge at the 17th edition of Plast, the trade show to be held in Milan from 5 to 9 May 2015. The initiative, entitled “Win and Participate in Plast 2015” is...
