Jan 31,2012
Plastic bag bans won’t be the only issue on the state and local legislative fronts that the plastics industry will have to contend with this year. A number of communities are looking to enact bans on polystyrene takeout ...
Jan 21,2012
PUNE: The ban on the use of plastic carrybags of a certain quality by governments and civic bodies across the country is an opportunity for the development of biodegradable plastic. Such material can be made into bags for the same ...
Jan 21,2012
Valeo India Pvt Ltd. works with most of the Indian automotive OEMs, with an emphasis on developing plastic parts for small cars. “We have developed critical components of clutches, starters, alternators in plastics. These ...
Jan 20,2012
Worldwide, every other toothbrush is produced on a Zahoransky machine. In 1988, the toothbrush market was revolutionized with the emergence of the first two-component injection mold for toothbrushes. And while today moldmaking, ...
Jan 20,2012
Players in China’s polymer markets are expressing mixed forecasts for 2012. While there is general agreement that upstream costs will continue to support polymer prices, players hold divergent opinions about the ...
Jan 19,2012
New Auxiliary Equipment / TSM Control Systems is now offering plastics producers new ways to weather the economic storm and improve their profit margins. New TSM technology focuses on combining standard processing requirements; ...
Jan 19,2012
Dr Boy GmbH & Co KG announced recently that it is supplying two more injection molding machine, Boy 35 E to worldwide model railroad manufacturer Märklin. “It is remarkable that we could manage a re-organization without ...
Jan 19,2012
With the start of a new year, Plastics News restates its editorial agenda. The plastics industry has made important progress in many of these areas in the past decade, and we applaud the efforts. * Safety must be every ...
Jan 18,2012
Sustainable packaging upstart Ecovative Design LLC has received tremendous attention over the past year for its disruptive technology introduction of protective packaging materials grown from agricultural byproducts bound together ...
Jan 18,2012
The IK Industrievereinigung trade association says plastic packaging companies have “more positive expectations” than in the last quarter of 2011, despite anticipating higher raw material prices. The German association ...
Jan 17,2012
Assocomaplast, the association of Italian plastics and rubber machinery producers, has announced the industry’s estimated turnover for 2011, showing growth of 11.1%. Production value increased from €3.6bn in 2010 to ...
Jan 17,2012
In a surprising reversal, a 5-cent North American polyethylene price increase that seemed to have faded away in December actually took hold in the market. Many buyers contacted mid-month by Plastics News indicated that they did ...
Jan 13,2012
Chinese PET producers report that they are planning to increase their export sales in 2012 as competition within the domestic market will heat up this year due to some large new capacity additions scheduled to come on-line in ...
Jan 12,2012
Middle Eastern PP offers for January have come down from their December levels in Asia and Egypt in line with sluggish buying interest and the approaching Chinese New Year holiday which will take place in the last week of January. ...
Jan 12,2012
Taiwan exported US$17.684 billion worth of machinery in the first 10 months of 2011, up 26.5% from a year earlier, according to customs-cleared statistics compiled by the Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry (TAMI). The sector ...
Jan 11,2012
PlasticsEurope director Wilfried Haensel says there are still opportunities for the region’s plastics industry, despite all the ongoing economic uncertainties facing the Eurozone. This year has brought the industry back from ...
Jan 10,2012
The growth rate for plastic beverage containers in China will slow between 2010-2015, but will still average 10.2 percent annually, according to a new research report. The report from Freedonia Group Inc. looks at the growth rate ...
Jan 10,2012
Taiwan’s leading plastics machinery maker Fu Chung Shin Machinery Manufacture Co. Ltd. (FCS) has appointed Maruka Machinery as its agent for the North American market. The companies signed a contract on Dec. 13 at the Maruka ...
Dec 31,2011
China’s slowing manufacturing economy and difficult conditions in export markets in North America and Europe hammered Chinese injection press maker Chen Hsong Holdings Ltd., sending revenues for the first half of its fiscal ...
Dec 29,2011
The New Year will bring a giant auction -- more than 130 injection presses and 20 extruders -- from four closed-down plants of Fortis Plastics LLC. Branford Group and Great American Group will conduct the auctions over three ...
