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Lines for FFS bags in Indonesia and Malaysia

By delivering two complete, high-productivity lines for FFS (Form, Fill, Seal) bags, installed in Indonesia and Malaysia respectively, BFM consolidates its presence in the Asian market. The FFS lines for heavy duty bags developed by the Varese-based manufacturer consist of a motorized...

SmartFlex in Poland and Slovenia

Greater flexibility is the key aspect that makes the SmartFlex lines the most appreciated and required by customers among the other Bandera blown film technologies. Recently, two SmartFlex lines have been delivered to two producers from Eastern Europe: one in Poland and one in Slovenia...

Target: digital personalization of caps decoration

Personalisation, brand enhancement plus tracking and anti-counterfeit functions. These are just a few of the digital decoration opportunities now available to the packaging-closures world. Sacmi - the developer of Colora CAP, the digital cap decoration solution that offers...

Former Managing Director of Arburg Italy retired

To honour the former Managing Director of Arburg in Italy, Juliane Hehl and Gerhard Böhm had come up with something very special. In a lively dialogue, they paid tribute to the achievements of Björn Norén, who had been active for Arburg in Italy for four decades in two respects: Managing Director of Arburg in Italy and with his company Sverital, which...

Sustainable, smart and customer-oriented: this is the new Fanuc Italy headquarter

Over 12,000 sqm entirely dedicated to customers and to “One Fanuc” solutions, with a particular effort towards the environment: these are the premises of the recently inaugurated headquarters of Fanuc Italia in Lainate (Milan), a landmark in the technological and commercial growth of the renowned factory automation company...

Enlarging the offer of moulds and ancillary equipment for blow moulding

On July 18, Sidel announced the acquisition of Cognac Moules Emballages Plastiques (Comep), a French producer and designer of moulds for PET, adding further strength to the group in the manufacturing of moulds and tooling. "We are confident that Sidel’s and Comep’s complementary expertise will bring us more...

Roteax ready for the circular economy

July 11 has been a historic date for Plaxtech. After 10 years of development and industrial tests, the company headquartered in Udine has delivered the first of 8 Roteax systems to Jiana Environmental Protection Science and Technology. The ceremony was held in front of a number of representatives from the Chinese government, the...

1100-ton GX press to debut at K 2019

No matter whether you want to manufacture bumper elements or small caps from high-cavity moulds - the hydraulic GX series from KraussMaffei masters packaging as well as medical technology and automotive. The GX 1100, the new heavyweight of the series, sees its market launch at the K 2019 trade show...

Hillenbrand acquires Milacron

Hillenbrand and Milacron Holdings entered into a definitive agreement under which Hillenbrand will acquire Milacron in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately 2 billion dollars, including net debt of approximately 686 million dollars as of March 31, 2019. This transaction represents a pivotal step in Hillenbrand’s vision to become a world-class...

Macchi: production up by 13.6%

Macchi financial statement for 2018 has been approved and Paolo Perazzi, General Manager of the company, has expressed a reasonable satisfaction and great optimism, commenting the results as follows: “2018 was a very special year for Macchi. Starting from July, together with the owners and the board we took a path towards...

Only one KraussMaffei

Munich-based mechanical engineering group KraussMaffei is reinventing itself. The provider of ready-to-use system solutions for injection moulding, extrusion and reaction process technology, is now consolidating all business divisions and its previous brands KraussMaffei, KraussMaffei Berstorff and Netstal within a single, unified brand...

Seeding for innovation, digitalisation and the circular economy

At K 2019, the Erema Group will be showcasing its full range of products and services for the plastics recycling process more comprehensively than ever before. For the first time, a total of seven companies and business units - Erema, Powerfil, Keycycle, Pure Loop, 3S, Umac and Plasmac - will be representing the Erema Group at the trade fair. Even though...

Chen Hsong opens subsidiary in Germany

Hong Kong-based injection moulding machine manufacturer Chen Hsong established a new German subsidiary, Chen Hsong Germany, in Kempen on the Lower Rhine, to better serve the German market as a highly competent partner and supplier of plastic injection moulding machines for both standard and specialized solutions...

A new production and assembly hall for flat dies for Reifenhäuser

The Reifenhäuser Group has started construction of a new production hall at the headquarters in Troisdorf. With the groundbreaking ceremony, the project is now entering the intensive construction phase. The new production and assembly hall with an area of 3,000 square meters is expected to be completed by spring 2020...

Fast-to-produce and light bottle

X-Lite Still is Sidel’s latest innovative 500 ml PET packaging solution for non-pressurised still water. Thanks to its extremely light industrial bottle design, it is the most cost-effective and sustainable packaging available on the market. This pioneering solution addresses the still water market for small size PET bottles, in particular, producers looking to...

Milacron completed the divestiture of blow moulding business

The leading industrial technology company serving the plastics processing industry, Milacron, announced that it completed the divestiture of substantially all of its Uniloy Blow Molding Business consistent with the terms of the previously announced definitive agreement with Osgood Capital Group and Cyprium Investment Partners...

Being more competitive in the extrusion of profiles

Good sales reports confirm the position of Amut Group as skilled supplier of high-level technology extrusion lines for edgebanding application. “Last year we acquired four new Europe-based customers, one important player in China purchased two lines and other two customers confirmed second line order. To achieve...

More filtering surface without enlarging the size of the filter

An innovative FlexDisc filter for piston-activated screen changers substantially enlarges available filtration area without the need to increase machine size, enabling processors and recyclers to achieve finer filtration, higher throughputs, longer filter service life, and reduced specific backflush volume. Nordson Corporation recommends the...

A haul-off for large-diameter thick HDPE pipes

For today’s market of HDPE pipes for pressurized media - increasingly focused on large diameters and wall thicknesses - and profiting from its experience of over 50 years in the development of machines downstream to pipe extrusion lines, Sica has developed the new multi-caterpillar P3500/24Plus haul-off, which is capable of...

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