Sep 16,2011
The last five years have brought big changes to China’s Haitian International Holdings Ltd. The maker of injection molding machines has more than doubled sales to 7.05 billion yuan (US$1.1 billion) solely on organic growth, ...
Sep 16,2011
A world exclusive process from SAS Agami, a company set up in Vitré, France, in 2009, debuted at Interpack 2011 in Düsseldorf in May. The Roll N Blow bottle thermoforming process was presented by French filling and ...
Sep 16,2011
Haitian International Holdings Ltd., China's largest injection press maker, saw revenues rise 15 percent in the first half of the year to 3.70 billion yuan ($578.3 million), as record-high exports, particularly to Southeast Asia ...
Sep 14,2011
The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc has launched an unprecedented marketing campaign in Latin America for NPE 2012, the show’s 27th edition. It's “a more ambitious [marketing] program than for any previous NPE, ...
Sep 14,2011
LG Electronics Inc. And Krauss Maffei AG have agreed to work together on technological developments in plastics processing for electronics devices. The deal was signed at a ceremony in Munich where LG also ordered additional ...
Sep 14,2011
World leaders in production of plastics & rubber machinery Top plastics & rubber machinery exporting country Source: plasticsnews.com
Sep 14,2011
Nanolayer extrusion technology is moving at breakneck speed. In blown film, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Mich., recently discussed patent-pending technology for producing film structures with 100+ layers, while BBS Corp., ...
Sep 13,2011
Italy's financial problems are having an impact on plastics machinery suppliers. Most of the large delegation of Italian plastics firms that had planned to attend Thailand's Tiprex trade show pulled out after Italy canceled ...
Sep 13,2011
Global injection molding machine maker Engel Holding GmbH plans to open a technical center and seminar center near the Mumbai International Airport in India. The center will be used for machine demonstrations, customer trials, ...
Sep 13,2011
Supply chain disruptions from Japan’s crisis have hit the earnings of Chinese injection molder and metals processor EVA Precision Industrial Holdings Ltd., although the company said it believes that the worst is behind it. ...
Sep 13,2011
China’s total polymer imports reached the highest level of 2011 in August. According to the recent data released by the Chinese Customs Agency, China imported 1.51 tons of plastics in August 2011, with the country’s ...
Sep 12,2011
Shanghai (Sept. 6, 1: 15 p. M. ET) -- Equipment maker Wittmann Battenfeld GmbH plans to start assembling injection molding machines in China in 2013, its first such production in Asia, in a bid to reduce costs and shorten delivery ...
Sep 12,2011
Advance word on several new press models were provided by two exhibitors at next month's Fakuma show in Germany. Arburg (U.S. office in Newington, Conn.) will feature its new Allrounder E (Edrive) series of ...
Sep 11,2011
In order to keep up with advances in mold cooling and the faster-cycling parallel movements of electric and hybrid machines, injection presses need ability to melt crystalline resins faster. Inadequate melting in conventional ...
Sep 11,2011
Use of commercial purging compounds (CPCs) has become an integral and even more vital part of thermoplastic processing. CPCs have proven to be invaluable tools for addressing market factors such as heavier reliance on just-in-time ...
Sep 10,2011
The MFI test is used widely among the various segments of the plastics industry. The difficulty is that any two labs can easily come up with different results, making it difficult to determine whether a material meets a desired ...
Sep 09,2011
Unless drastic changes interrupt the development of the global economy, the production value of Taiwan`s machinery industry will approach the NT$1 trillion mark this year. This prediction results from a study carried out by Huang ...
Sep 08,2011
According to the data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TUIK), Turkey’s plastics imports in July 2011 were down on a monthly basis but up on a yearly basis as per the plastics pricing service ChemOrbis. The ...
Sep 08,2011
Italian packaging machinery manufacturer Sacmi has developed a new PMA24L that inserts “PVC-free” liners in metal caps. The latest innovation is called PMA24L – acronym for “Plasmatic for metal for ...
Sep 07,2011
In Southeast Asia, more local PVC prices for September were announced with rollovers to decreases this week after a Vietnamese producer had pioneered lower September prices in late August as per the plastics pricing service ...
