Marketing

  • 04 April 2012

    Biodegradable water bottle

    To make bike races yet more “ecological”, the Portuguese company Polisport has produced an extruded-blow moulded water bottle...
  • 04 April 2012

    An array of pad printing

    During PLAST 2012, Tosh, headquartered in Rozzano (Milano), celebrates 30 years of activity in pad printing...
  • 04 April 2012

    Multiple drives

    TPD-M is a servo-drive particularly suitable for centralized automation, as in plastic packaging production, where several...
  • 04 April 2012

    Sprue removal

    Dega, headquartered in Iseo (Brescia, Italy), introduces a new solution at PLAST 2012 for removing sprues from...
  • 04 April 2012

    Photovoltaic cellular panels

    A new range of machines is introduced by Omipa, headquartered in Morazzone (Varese, Italy), at PLAST 2012 (Fiera Milano, 8-12 May) for the production...
  • 04 April 2012

    Awards ceremony

    The first day of PLAST 2012 - Tuesday, 8 May - will feature an awards ceremony in the Convention Centre adjacent to the Rho fairgrounds...
  • 04 April 2012

    Twelve mandrels

    The new Servotube printing machines with technology developed by Omso, based in Reggio Emilia (Italy), are introduced at PLAST 2012...
  • 04 April 2012

    Innovation for preforms

    During PLAST 2012, Sacmi, based in Imola (Bologna, Italy), introduces the new IPS (Injection Preform System)...
  • 04 April 2012

    100% electric

    A new all-electric injection moulding machine designed and manufactured by BMB, based in Brescia (Italy), has been introduced...
  • 28 March 2012

    PVC global market

    Now that the global recession has ended, the construction industry will again boost demand for PVC. The average annual growth rate of 3.3% seen...
  • 28 March 2012

    Biopolymers for Danone

    The Dutch manufacturer Avantium has announced a collaborative agreement with the multinational Danone, world’s number two...
  • 28 March 2012

    Austrian expansion

    Engel management has announced that its largest Austrian plant, in Schwertberg, will be further...
  • 28 March 2012

    Rubber recycling

    One of the more critical aspects of rubber regards the difficulty in recycling it: once it has been vulcanized, it loses its plasticity and cannot...
  • 28 March 2012

    Winning dice

    Adler di Barasso (VA) will present new machines at PLAST 2012 (Fiera Milano, 8-12 May), including the GF-123 dicer for inline granulation of...
  • 28 March 2012

    Electric blow moulding (2)

    Magic MP (Monza, Monza-Brianza, Italy) will display three electrical extrusion-blow moulding plants in operation at PLAST 2012; two of them...
  • 28 March 2012

    Standards for magnetic chucks

    The Working Group revising the European standard for the safety requirements of plastics and rubber presses (EN 289:2004+A1:2008) has requested a...
  • 28 March 2012

    Steady growth

    The 2011 final balance for the Italian plastics and rubber machinery industry confirms the forecasts worked out some months...
  • 21 March 2012

    New lab

    Farrel Corporation has recently opened their new state-of-the-art Process Laboratory & Customer Demonstration Facility. The lab is in...
  • 21 March 2012

    Efficient shredder

    CMG Granulatori, headquartered in Budrio (Bologna, Italy), introduces its new TRM-1200-47K-directdrive shredder with electric brushless...
  • 21 March 2012

    Hybrid presses with direct drive

    On the occasion of PLAST 2012 (Milan, 8-12 May), a new range of injection moulding machines with all-electric clamping and screw drive is introduced by Maicopresse...