Nov 08,2011
The recent International Plastic Fair, Japan’s largest plastics show, saw a sharp drop in attendance from the last edition in 2008, with the number of visitors down 34 percent to just over 43,700. Organizers for the show, ...
Nov 07,2011
Wavin, the plastic pipe supplier, has warned that revenue growth in its fourth quarter will be “limited”, thanks to the impact of Europe’s financial market woes on the construction sector. The ...
Nov 07,2011
Santa Cruz sailing captain Jim Holm was disgusted with what he was seeing in the oceans he loved. Although the images of strewn plastic in the ocean are becoming more widespread on the Internet these days, with animals dying from ...
Nov 07,2011
Penn State Behrend engineering student Kaitlin Wolf aspires to design and develop medical plastic devices in the health-care industry. The 21-year-old senior from Buffalo will be among an inaugural class of six Behrend students ...
Nov 07,2011
The Plastics Environmental Council (PEC) has announced the sponsorship of a research study to produce the first standard specification for the landfill biodegradation of petroleum- and natural gas-derived plastics that have been ...
Nov 03,2011
Artenius PET Packaging Europe, Distrupol and Engel UK were among the winners at last night’s glittering U.K.'s Plastics Industry Awards, which were held in the London Hilton on Park Lane. The ceremony, the 11th annual event ...
Nov 03,2011
Spain’s Tuboplast CTL Group plans to invest $58.3m (€41.6m) to build a plastic tube plant in North Carolina, the US. The site will be the packaging supplier’s North American headquarters. The 42-year-old company ...
Nov 02,2011
JCIM LLC, the molding unit of auto interior supplier Johnson Controls Inc., has sold its blow molding operations in a move that will allow it to concentrate on its core production in injection molding. Engineered Plastic ...
Nov 02,2011
Korbinian Kiesl, CEO of French injection moulding machinery producer Billion, says the company has achieved its best turnover - €35m in the 2010/11 financial year – since 2005, when Kiesl acquired the company. Speaking ...
Nov 01,2011
Flooding in Thailand appear to have done major damage to some of the country’s plastics processors, according to reports emerging from machinery suppliers with sizable business there. Tokyo-based Toshiba Machine Co. Ltd., ...
Oct 31,2011
North American polypropylene resin prices have plummeted an average of 14 cents per pound since Oct. 1, with polyethylene prices taking a smaller, 3-cent drop since then as well. The PP swoon ends a two-month period in which ...
Oct 31,2011
Engineered Plastic Components Inc. has completed its fourth acquisition of the past 12 months and expects to close a fifth by the end of the year. The newly added companies and individual plants have added diversity in both ...
Oct 27,2011
As Japan’s largest plastics show kicked off Oct. 25, the country’s machinery industry faces an uncertain time, with its global production up but companies under pressure to move manufacturing to low-cost spots. ...
Oct 27,2011
Table (1) Exports of Taiwan General Machinery in 2011(Jan~June) by Products Table (2) Exports of Taiwan General Machinery in 2011(Jan~June) by Destination Table (3) Taiwan Imports of General Machinery in 2011(Jan~June) by Products ...
Oct 21,2011
German injection molding machine group Arburg says its turnover in 2011 will exceed its 2007 record of 409 million euros. Speaking at a news conference at the Fakuma fair in Friedrichshafen, Arburg managing director Michael Hehl ...
Oct 21,2011
Production volumes by European manufacturers of core plastics and rubber processing machinery increased by 27.3 percent to 9.78 billion euros in 2010, according to Euromap, the European association of plastics and rubber machinery ...
Oct 21,2011
The European plastics and rubber machinery industry achieved remarkable rates of growth in 2010 and 2011 and is on course to match the 2008 record. “Our industry recovered very well from the economic and financial crisis in ...
Oct 20,2011
That is the case for members of the European plastics and rubber machinery industry, according to Euromap, the trade group that represents the continent's plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers. During the group's triennial ...
Oct 19,2011
US-based NatureWorks is set to build a new manufacturing plant in Thailand after announcing a $150m (€108.7m) investment from PTT Chemical, Thailand’s largest chemical producer. NatureWorks, which until now was wholly ...
Oct 19,2011
Schuler SMG, a machinery and die maker, and Frimo, a systems solutions provider, are teaming up to offer complete systems for composites processing. The two companies, both based in Germany, signed the agreement at the Composites ...
