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The EuPC Senior Executive Forum (SEF) 2019 is being held in Brussels on March 13. SEF was founded in 2006 to advise the EuPC Steering Committee and to provide strategic guidance on the plastics converting industry's most important developments. The forum is composed of industry leaders and senior-level executives from the top...

The leading industrial technology company serving the plastics processing industry, Milacron announced that Michael “Mac” Jones has been promoted to the position of President, Milacron Advanced Plastics Processing Technologies (APPT) Americas and Europe businesses...

The board of directors of DowDuPont has approved the previously announced separation of DowDuPont’s Materials Science Division, which will become the new Dow on April 1. The announcement marks a major milestone toward successfully separating Dow on April 1, to be followed by the expected separation of Corteva Agriscience from the new...

Global sales increased by 13% to 294.9 million euros with incoming orders rising by 6% to 314.2 million euros. The demand for IntElect all-electric injection moulding machines and El-Exis packaging machines was the main contributor to this major sales increase. These are the results of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag for the fiscal year of 2018...

Technological innovation, on one hand, favours the acceleration of modern development as well as changes in various markets, while on the other, is driven by the latter two. Chinaplas, being a prominent platform for innovative technology and communication, is highly responsive to the needs and the trends, and always brings in new elements...

The Brussels based association representing the entire PET value chain in Europe, Petcore Europe, increases its competence by welcoming twelve new members in 2019: Bandera, IFP Energies Nouvelles, Point Plastic, AFA Dispensing, Remondis PET Recycling, Cumapol, Retal Industries, PepsiCo, Mitsubishi Polyester Films, Suntory, Digimarc and Finat...

Basf generated sales of 62.7 billion euros last year. This represents an increase of 2% compared with the previous year. Income from operations (Ebit) before special items declined to 6.4 billion euros, compared with 7.6 billion euros in the previous year. This was mainly attributable to the Chemicals segment, which accounted for around two-thirds…

Covestro generated strong results in 2018 while challenges mounted throughout the year. Core volumes increased 1.6%, and Group sales rose by 3.4% to 14.6 billion euros. After a weaker fourth quarter, Covestro could not achieve earnings at the previous year’s levels, which were marked by an outstanding positive business environment. Despite the…

Renato Moretto, president and CEO of Moretto, gave 100,000 euros to support people and lands of Veneto affected by the exceptional gales, which took place during last autumn. A cheque for this sum was delivered into the hands of the President of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, on February 25, at the company’s headquarters in Massanzago, near Padua...

After the excellent results of the past edition, the Plast (the International exhibition for plastics and rubber industries) organizing secretariat announces the next three-year appointment for the event, which will take place from Tuesday, May 4 to Friday, May 7, 2021 at the Fiera Milano Rho-Pero fairgrounds, again together with The Innovation…

An agreement signed by Lehvoss Italia and Birla Carbon for the distribution, in the Italian market, of the products from Birla Carbon came into effect on January 1, 2019. With a turnover of 44.3 billion euros Birla Carbon, a company of the Indian group Aditya Birla, is one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of carbon black...

As of February 18, 2019, Reifenhäuser Group acquires Plamex Maschinenbau, Kelberg, a specialized supplier of blown film lines and extrusion components. Its core competences are blown film lines for water-cooled and biaxially oriented films for the medical and food packaging industry. The company will continue its operations under the name...

Through two new commercial operations in India and Brazil worth a total of 2.2 million euros and set up with the support of Sace Simest (the CDP Group’s centre for export and internationalisation), Colines has succeeded in strengthening its presence in the area of emerging or high-potential markets. These operations confirm and consolidate its...

Ten years: many or few? It depends, of course. So let's consider the "top five" companies with the highest capitalization listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2007 the ranking consisted of, in order, Exxon, PetroChina, Walmart, China Mobile and Procter & Gamble. In 2017 the situation had changed radically: first...

Leading purging compound producer, Aquapurge, gets 2019 underway with the launch of a brand new website. The new Aquapurge website features a wealth of case study information and new videos and customer testimonials. Founders and directors John Steadman and Richard Brayne-Nicholls are set to amplify the...

The President Director of Pertamina, Nicke Widyawati, and ENI CEO, Claudio Descalzi, in the presence of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ignasius Jonan, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to investigates synergies of their respective technologies, expertises and know-how, for jointly evaluating new collaboration opportunities in the…

The Marangoni Group announced the acquisition of the majority shareholding in the South African tread maker Leader Rubber Company. The partnership between Leader Rubber and Marangoni has been ongoing for more than ten years and recently has been reinforced with the objective of further developing agreements with local retreaders and...

IMS Technologies announced a change in management. Luigi Magliocchi was appointed new group Chief Executive Officer. He succeeds Daniele Vaglietti who takes up his new role as Managing Director Sales and Marketing. Magliocchi previously worked as CEO at GDM in Milano, Italy. GDM is a worldwide leader...

A new partnership agreement will see international industrial solution provider Rieckermann representing Macchi and providing after-sales service in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The agreement, officially signed on January 21, 2019 at Macchi headquarters in...

On January 1, 2019, the Austrian Erema Group acquired 60% of the recycling machine manufacturer Plasmac to further expand its range of tailor-made plastic recycling solutions for in-house applications. The remaining 40% of the recycling machine manufacturer is owned by Syncro Group, a manufacturer in Italy that makes equipment for the blown film…