Jul 12,2011
West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. has begun constructing a compression molding plant in Shanghai, China, to handle new growth and expand its presence in the Asia-Pacific region. While West is growing in Asia, it's consolidating in ...
Jul 09,2011
Life-enhancing innovations to help people with visual impairments to navigate the internet,wheelchair users to negotiate the urban environment,autistic children to communicate and diabetics to manage their condition,were among the ...
Jul 05,2011
Machinery makers Oystar and Sacmi are teaming up to combine their packaging expertise for beverage applications. "Through this partnership with Sacmi we will be able to further enhance both our presence and performance in the ...
Jul 04,2011
The consumption of polyvinylchloride (PVC) in Russia this year may increase by 30% compared to 2010, according to Natalia Proskurjakova, Chief Marketing Officer of RusVinyl. RusVinyl is a joint venture PVC company backed by ...
Jul 01,2011
In the past few days the sentiment on the sellers' side has begun to firm up in Italy's local PE market as per the plastics pricing service ChemOrbis. Following the earlier price cuts, some traders in Italy are now revising their ...
Jul 01,2011
A new device for compounders offers to boost the feed rate and throughput of low-bulk-density materials. Called Feed Enhancement Technology (FET) and developed by Coperion (U. S. Office in Ramsey, N. J. ), it was on display at ...
Jul 01,2011
MachinePoint, an internet-based trader of used machinery, says demand for its extrusion machinery is coming mostly from Asia and the middle East, as companies in developed markets are keeping investments to a minimum. Since 2009, ...
Jul 01,2011
Global demand for pharmaceutical packaging is forecast to expand 5.5% annually to £ 39bn in 2015, according to a new report from Cleveland-based Freedonia Group. Western Europe, the US and Japan will account for more than ...
Jun 30,2011
Nordson has agreed to acquire Constructiewerkhuizen G. Verbruggen, a company based in Belgium that produces flat dies and coextrusion equipment for makers of multilayer flexible packaging. Nordson did not say what it paid for ...
Jun 28,2011
The global polyamide market is expected to grow at a mean annual rate of 2.4% from 2011 until 2020, according to a forecast by Germany-based market research and consulting firm PCI Nylon. The forecast is contained in an annual ...
Jun 28,2011
German auxiliary equipment maker Single Temperiertechnik is opening its first China office, in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, to sell its oil and water-operated temperature control systems for plastics processors. The ...
Jun 23,2011
Compression and injection moulding machinery producers are competing in improving closure moulding cycle time and energy consumption. But the target keeps moving, as European Plastics News reveals in a comparison two groups' data. ...
Jun 21,2011
Eastman Chemical Co. sees big opportunities in China for its bisphenol A-free Tritan copolyester materials, as Beijing follows Canada and the European Union to ban BPA in baby bottles, and Chinese parents scramble to find safer ...
Jun 21,2011
China faces a trade deficit of plastics machinery, even though its export volume is three times the import volume. The key is price differences, said the China Plastics Machinery Industry Association. China exported 44, 493 units ...
Jun 21,2011
US-based Lloyd Instruments has launched a new polymer testing instrument - the LS1 high performance single column materials testing machine, which can test materials up to 0.5 tonnes. The LS1 comes with test software ...
Jun 21,2011
Kreyenborg says it has in-creased productivity by integrating a new melt pump and screen changer into its existing system. The company says the Kreyenborg MB pump improves filtration and increases output by enabling short ...
Jun 17,2011
China's plastics machinery industry continued to grow in the first quarter, but the speed slowed down, according to data released by the China Plastics Machinery Industry Association (CPMIA). The country produced 66, 149 units of ...
Jun 17,2011
Medical product suppliers Südpack Medica and Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) have joined forces to co-operate in manufacturing plastic film for the biopharmaceutical market. According to the agreement, SSB will use plastic ...
Jun 15,2011
Beneath the eye-catching growth in China’s plastics machinery market, there are signs of big changes, with domestic-made equipment taking significant market share from imported machinery in what has become one of the ...
Jun 14,2011
DuPont's 23rd Awards for Packaging Innovation has honoured new developments from global brand giants such as Gillette, Coca Cola, and Intel, Glaxo Smith Kline and Heinz - and their packaging partners. "The nominees and winners ...
