Jun 14,2012
KraussMaffei Berstorff has installed a new rubber profile production line in its technical center in Hannover. The state-of-the-art extrusion line features new functions designed to enhance productivity and give rubber processing ...
Jun 12,2012
Plastic components manufacturer Top Plastics Poland has announced plans to move production from its plant in Bielsko-Bia? A to a larger facility in Tychy, both in Poland. The new factory will have a total space of some 2, 800m2, ...
Jun 10,2012
Taly-based Sacmi Group says sales increased from € 1bn in 2010 to € 1.4bn in 2011, as profitability returned for the plastic injection moulding machine business. Profits increased to € 32.4m from € 12m. The ...
Jun 08,2012
Demand for nanomaterials worldwide will increase more than twofold to reach $5.5bn (€4.4bn) by 2016, according to a new report from Freedonia. In the World Nanomaterials study, Freedonia attributes the growth of the market to ...
Jun 07,2012
The number of chemical and plastics companies in western Europe that are positive about the business situation this summer has dropped to 36.7%, compared to 41.7% in the Spring, according to a new report from Ceresana. In its ...
Jun 06,2012
Production efficiency was the focus of this year’s Technology Days event, organized in March by injection molding machinery producer Arburg GmbH + Co. KG in Lossburg. Arburg defines production efficiency as an overarching ...
Jun 05,2012
Swiss Chemical company Clariant Masterbatches just announced a liquid vehicle technology (LVT) developed to eliminate problems that have prevented wider use of liquid color and additive concentrates in extrusion blow molding of ...
Jun 04,2012
The economic downturn in Italy resulted in nearly 5, 000 fewer visitors attending the Plast 2012 exhibition in Milan last week compared with the 2009 event. There were a total of 50, 593 visitors to Plast 2012, down from 55, 175 ...
Jun 02,2012
Plastics Machinery Group LLC of Solon, Ohio, is experiencing strong demand for equipment and has added jobs. In early February, the firm acquired nine used thin-gauge thermoforming machines from model years 1990 and later. ...
Jun 01,2012
With the electric vehicle (EV) production set to grow at more than 80% CAGR until 2017, plastics used in these vehicles will also see a tremendous growth, that’s according to the latest research from Frost & Sullivan. The ...
May 31,2012
Universal Dynamics Inc. Trotted out new additions to its dryer lines, as well as a new loading module, new controller and dual fuel power pack, among auxiliary equipment offerings at its NPE exhibit booth. The company is expanding ...
May 30,2012
The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), which is a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (ASTAR), announced the development of a new plastic that reflects 0.09 to 0.2 percent of ...
May 29,2012
A new report estimates that the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of polymer usage will increase by 26% in wafer level applications over the next 5 years. Last year, polymeric semiconductor material market was valued at $274 ...
May 28,2012
The economic downturn in Italy resulted in nearly 5, 000 fewer visitors attending the Plast 2012 exhibition in Milan last week compared with the 2009 event. There were a total of 50, 593 visitors to Plast 2012, down from 55, 175 ...
May 28,2012
Long-term prospects for the UAE cement industry are bright due to growth in investment in infrastructure in the UAE, GCC and key foreign markets, the latest study by Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry finds. The UAE has the ...
May 28,2012
Rotational molding volume will track U. S. Gross domestic product, continuing a trend that began in the mid-1990s, economist Peter Mooney, said at a Society of Plastics Engineers conference. Mooney issued his sixth rotomolding ...
May 28,2012
KraussMaffei lifted the veil this week on a new GX two-platen hydraulic drive injection moulding machine series. The range, of which six tonnages are available within 400 and 650 tonnes, was on show at the company’s ...
May 24,2012
Battenfeld-Cincinnati scored big in China last year with some major orders, and the company expects to continue to grow as China demands high output and high efficiency machinery. In an interview with Plastics News at the recent ...
May 22,2012
A recent report on the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation website released some fresh stats of the PP market and industry in China, the world's largest net importer of PP resin. I'm summarizing the information into ...
May 21,2012
Export orders of plastics products are increasingly shifting from China to Vietnam due to rising production costs in China, according to the Vietnamese newspaper Tuoi Tre (the Youth). When I saw the report during Chinaplas, I ...
