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The global supplier of specialty polymers, Solvay has further invested in the Application Development Center at its Bollate, Italy facility to support the growth of its automotive customers in the EMEA. To meet ever challenging OEM fluid handling component development requirements, the company has added new state-of-the-art...

The injection moulding machine manufacturer and system solutions provider, Engel, presented itself in good spirits at Fakuma 2018. It is expected to experience further moderate growth for the current fiscal year, even despite the strong growth of recent years shifting to a sideways movement globally. Asia and German-speaking Europe are the...

Three years of accelerating growth and all the makings of a further increase in sales volume in the German market. At Fakuma 2018, RadiciGroup Performance Plastics stressed once again how Germany is central to the development of innovative projects, thanks to the collaboration with its German partners. Performance Plastics also confirmed...

Injection moulding of plastics is continuing its dominance within the processing of polymers to manufacture products for everyday use, including kitchenware, toys and packaging, amongst other end-use industries, according to the new report “Injection Moulding: Global Markets and Technologies Through 2023” from...

For over 200 years, DuPont has been synonymous with life-changing discoveries and scientific know how, reinventing ourselves along the way. As we take the next step toward becoming the new DuPont, we are unveiling a fresh global brand identity and logo that recognizes our heritage while conveying our focus on a customer-led innovation strategy...

The Board of Directors of Solvay has appointed Ilham Kadri as Chairman of the Executive Committee, member of the Board of Directors and CEO of the Group, with effect from March 1, 2019. On that date, Ilham Kadri will officially succeed Jean-Pierre Clamadieu, who will then relinquish his executive duties and his mandate as director of Solvay...

October 4 saw the inauguration, in Fredericksburg, Virginia (USA), of the new headquarters of Una-Dyn, a company of the Piovan Group. The ribbon cutting ceremony was attended president and CEO Nicola Piovan, together with guests coming not only from the United States, but also from Canada and Mexico. The ceremony...

Versalis (Eni) has won the bidding process ordered by the Court of Alessandria for Mossi & Ghisolfi's Group’s “green” activities. The transfer of the related business units will be formally agreed in the coming weeks, in compliance with legal procedures and deadlines. The operation includes assets and resources related to development…

The last months of 2018 are full of international appointments for Star Automation

Forward-thinking companies, Global Plastics, Hickman’s Family Farms and Amut Group have started a great vertical collaboration to give to plastic a second life, avoiding post-consumer bottles to end up in landfills or in the ocean. Global Plastics is a well-known Californian manufacturer of PET packaging made entirely...

A Maag Group company, Ettlinger will take advantage of Fakuma 2018 to show high performance solutions in the field of melt filtration involving different levels of contamination. The exhibit will focus particularly on Ettlinger’s ECO filter systems, which were originally developed for compounding and filtering gels and agglomerates, among...

The gala evening, held on September 20th to celebrate 25 years of Arburg Italia, revolved entirely around people. The event was held in Castell’Arquato (near Piacenza), at Casale La Colombara, an estate that has belonged to the Noren family since the start of the last century. And the fact that the evening was all about people was underlined, in…

A global provider of highly engineered products and di differentiated industrial technologies, Barnes Group announced that it has entered into a defnitive agreement to acquire privately held Gimatic, a leading supplier of mission-critical solutions for industrial automation and robotic applications from Gimatic’s founder and investment funds…

The Italian Group Piovan has announced that, as approved by its competent corporate bodies, it has started the activities for listing its ordinary shares on the Mercato Telematico Azionario organized and managed by Borsa Italiana, and should the specific requirements be met, on its Star Segment, as the case may be...

A company established back in 1994, Plastic Systems employs today 400 people. It specialises in products for automation in the various stages of plastic processing; what is more, its services also range from raw material processing to integration of its solutions into the production departments of customers that use both injection moulding…

A new EPDM rubber production plant has been opened by Versalis in Ferrara on September 12. It will mainly supply the automotive industry. The new facility is an excellent example of reindustrialization of an Italian production plant. Over 250 million euros were invested in the project, which involved constructing a new production line on a land…

The Austrian Greiner Extrusion Group and the Italian Simplas are now working together in the area of tooling for film and sheet extrusion. Greiner Extrusion Group at the same time acquires a minority holding in Simplas. The clients of both companies will benefit from significantly larger production capacities, rapid onsite support and…

Over 250 global elastomers professionals will gather at the Silicone Elastomers and TPE World Summits organized by Smithers Rapra at the Sheraton Milan Malpensa Airport Hotel, in Ferno (Varese, Italy), from November 27 to 28. Known as the “home” for the elastomers industry, the two co-located summits have built a...

Italian imports of plastics and rubber processing machinery racked up an impressive 23% increase in the first half of 2018 with regard to the same period in 2017. On the other hand, the growth of exports is instead fractional, evidencing the lacklustre performance heralded in the early months of the year. While still well into the black at over…

An investment program of about 3 million euro was launched on late 2017 and is being implemented during 2018 by Sipol. The main aims of this program include: a new 2,400 square meter warehouse dedicated to finished goods and powder-raw material storage increase; 6 new tanks for liquid monomer storage; dedicated software for the...