Marketing

  • 12 January 2011

    French resultsand prospects

    According to the most recent survey by the Fédération de la Plasturgie, sales revenues for the French plastics processing industry gained by 8.5% in...
  • 12 January 2011

    Thousands of visits

    The website www.italianplasticmachinery.com recorded 27,112 different visitors in December 2010 and an overall total of 336,011 for the whole...
  • 12 January 2011

    Chinese recycle

    Starting on January 1, 2011, Chinese manufacturers of household appliances must pay a tax on each unit placed on the market. The same amount...
  • 12 January 2011

    Composite foam

    FFC (Foam Fiber Composite) technology has been developed by Friul Filiere (located near Udine, Italy)for the production of profiles in PVC-wood fibre composite. This...
  • 12 January 2011

    Italian manufacturersin Moscow

    The fourteenth edition of Interplastica takes place 25-28 January. It is the Russian Federation’s preeminent fair and will be attended by nearly fifty Italian companies coordinated...
  • 10 January 2011

    High performancesin comparison

    Driven by the demands of high-tech industry, high performance materials are constantly evolving to meet the needs of a variety of end-use applications. Whether it is the...
  • 05 January 2011

    Duties reduced

    Based on EuCIA (European Composites Industry Association) sources, the European Commission has released a document to the EU27 Member...
  • 05 January 2011

    Made in Italy worldwide

    The Italian Trade Commission (ICE) and the trade association Assocomaplast will coordinate the Italian plastics and rubber machinery presence in some of the...
  • 05 January 2011

    Fifty micro-layers

    From January 17 to 21 Colines will open the doors of its factory in Novara (Italy) to show a JumboRollex plant in operation for the production of stretch film...
  • 05 January 2011

    Devulcanized rubber

    One of the main problem in rubber processing is that this material is difficult to recycle due to the fact that once it is vulcanized, it loses its peculiar characteristics and...
  • 05 January 2011

    No more shopping bags

    In accordance with Law number 296 issued in 2006, starting on January 1, 2011, Italy has banned the sale of shopping bags, except those in line with the standard...
  • 04 January 2011

    Acquisition in Brazil

    Brazilian producer of specialty engineered materials and distributor of thermoplastics, Uniplen has been acquired by PolyOne for...
  • 22 December 2010

    Acquisition ofIndian compounds

    Rhodia has signed an agreement to acquire PI Polymer, which forecasts about 13 million dollar sales revenue for its fiscal year 2010/11. This transaction supports the...
  • 22 December 2010

    Towards PLAST 2012

    Application forms and General Regulations of PLAST 2012, which will be held in Fiera Milano fairgrounds, Rho-Milan, on May 8-12, 2012, are available...
  • 22 December 2010

    Electric extrusion-blowmoulding

    After a decade of experience with fully-electric technology for injection-blow moulding machines, Meccanoplastica (located near Florence, Italy) now offers the new HL350...
  • 22 December 2010

    No-chip cutting

    Planetary cutters have been designed by Sica - an Italian company producing extrusion line ancillaries - for chip-free cutting of high-thickness HDPE and PP-R pipes (up to...
  • 22 December 2010

    At the topof the exports

    The trade association Assocomaplast has recently processed the official statistics for Italian imports and exports of plastics and rubber machinery. These data regard...
  • 21 December 2010

    SSBR for tires

    On December 20 2010 Styron announced the expansion of its SSBR (Solution Styrene Butadiene Rubber) capacity with a new production line...
  • 16 December 2010

    Innovation in Frankfurt

    On December 15 Clariant announced its plan to expand global R&D activities at its site in Frankfurt, Germany. The new 23,000-square meter “Innovation Center”...