Oct 24,2012
The United States isn’t the only place debating “reshoring” of manufacturing from China these days -- Taiwan’s large plastics industry is also taking a hard look at whether rising costs in mainland China ...
Oct 23,2012
Taiwan’s plastics machinery makers are worried about a 40 percent fall in their order books in India, one of their largest export markets, following this year’s sharp drop in the value of the Indian currency against ...
Oct 22,2012
Extrusion equipment major Gloucester Engineering Co. Inc. has expanded its product line by acquiring Pearl Technologies Inc. of Savannah, N.Y. Pearl engineers and makes consumable parts for converting and extrusion equipment. Its ...
Oct 09,2012
As of 2013, BRISAY machines will be manufactured at VEIT Group's headquarters in Landsberg, Germany. This is another step towards an optimized use of production facilities, after moving production of the KANNEGIESSER brand from ...
Sep 29,2012
BPF Director-General Peter Davis speaking yesterday at the Global Polymer Innovation Expo (GPIE) in Columbus, Ohio said the world has plentiful oil and gas reserves and global polyolefins capacity should be sufficient to meet ...
Sep 28,2012
Exports from Italy of extrusion machinery increased in the first half of 2012, while exports of injection moulding machines fell, according to Assocomaplast, the trade group representing the country's plastics and rubber machinery ...
Sep 27,2012
News reports, backed up by several industry sources, say that the sale of KraussMaffei Group -- the world’s largest manufacturer of plastics equipment -- could be coming soon by Madison Capital Partners. Reuters and the ...
Sep 27,2012
The draft"free economic exemplary zonea"program is scheduled to come out in November.Yiin Chii-ming,minister of the Council for Economic Planning and Development(CEPD),noted yesterday(Sept.26)that there will be two sets of ...
Sep 27,2012
There are signs indicating that Taiwan's economy may bottom out soon amid an easing of global economic uncertainty,as the sentiment in its manufacturing sector has improved and the prospects of its exports have become more ...
Sep 26,2012
Australia's triennial plastics industry trade exhibition Ausplas -- the longest-running plastics event in the southern hemisphere -- is permanently joining Australia's manufacturing industry event, National Manufacturing Week ...
Sep 25,2012
Broad-based Taiwanese auxiliary equipment maker is setting up a warehouse and technology center in Atlanta, its first in North America, and is considering setting up a sales and service office in Germany. The Taipei-based company ...
Sep 25,2012
The government needs to stimulate the economy to help improve prospects for the manufacturing sector,writes Martin Ford,managing director of Cheshire-based independent franchised distributor,Gateway Electronic Components. British ...
Sep 24,2012
Japan’s Toshiba Machine Co. Ltd. is buying one of India’s largest injection molding machine producers, L&T Plastics Machinery Ltd., in a move that will significantly expand its presence in a market of growing ...
Sep 21,2012
China’s Haitian International Holdings Ltd. has seen its annual sales more than double in recent years to about US$1 billion, joining the ranks of the world’s biggest injection molding machinery suppliers. Now the firm ...
Sep 20,2012
Currier Plastics, a custom injection molder and blowmolder, is adding Sumitomo Injection Molding (IM) machines in a move the company says will strengthen its medium tonnage range for lid and cap molding. The new additions (HSZ and ...
Sep 18,2012
Broad-based Chinese plastics firm Cosmos Machinery Enterprises Ltd. has closed an appliance and electronics molding factory in Wuxi, China, as tougher economic conditions sharply cut sales and pushed the company into a small loss ...
Sep 14,2012
According to a study conducted by the United Nations Commission for Economic and Social Affairs in Asia and the Pacific, revenues from the plastics industry in Bangladesh should reach 2 billion dollars by the end of 2015 and 4 ...
Sep 13,2012
Sheffield start-up Iceotope can dramatically cut,by over 90%,the cooling overhead of data centres,and increases the computational density of server racks,by moving to liquid cooling. Conventional servers are cooled by air,with ...
Sep 13,2012
Chinese foreign trade in machinery is still prevalently characterized by positive signs and seems to have picked up momentum after a slowing trend witnessed in late 2011 and the first quarter of the current year. Not surprisingly, ...
Sep 12,2012
Gerresheimer Regensburg has expanded its medical injection moulding plant in Dongguan, China, adding production of two lancing devices. The company said moving the work from Europe allows it to keep production costs low and invest ...
