Marketing

  • 26 September 2018

    Barnes Group acquires Gimatic

    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…
  • 26 September 2018

    Piovan has started the listing process at Borsa Italiana

    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...
  • 26 September 2018

    The Plastic Systems group takes over Ergomec

    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…
  • 19 September 2018

    In Ferrara a new plant for elastomers production

    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…
  • 19 September 2018

    Italian-Austrian agreement in the extrusion tools

    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…
  • 19 September 2018

    The "home" for the elastomers industry

    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...
  • 19 September 2018

    Two-speed foreign trade in the 2018 first half

    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…
  • 12 September 2018

    Ensuring stability by enhancing logistics and storage capacities

    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...
  • 12 September 2018

    PlasticFinder is open 24/7

    If your business never takes a break remember that PlasticFinder, the European plastics marketplace, is open 24/7 year round.
  • 05 September 2018

    RadiciGroup in Eastern Europe with Hromatka

    A strategic agreement for the distribution of engineering polymers of the class of polyamide and polybutyleneterephtalate, under the trade names of Radilon, Heramid, Radiflam, Radistrong and Raditer has been signed by RadiciGroup Performance Plastics and the Hromatka Group - with its subsidiaries Aectra Plastics and Plastoplan Polska...
  • 05 September 2018

    Impianti OMS becomes Hennecke-OMS

    Following Hennecke’s takeover of the OMS group at the end of 2017, the operation has now been definitively completed from a legal point of view, too: on August 1, Impianti OMS became Hennecke-OMS. The change of name will not mean the company changing headquarters, and similarly the legal relationships and contractual obligations between the...
  • 05 September 2018

    A new general manager for Macchi

    Starting from the end of July, the Board of Directors of Macchi has appointed Paolo Perazzi as General Manager of the company. Paolo Perazzi takes over from Anthony M. Caprioli, to whom the Board of Directors has expressed a heartfelt thanks for the carried-out activities...
  • 05 September 2018

    From Woodbridge to Fredericksburg to double the production

    In July, Una-Dyncompleted its move from Woodbridge to Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States. The newly outfitted structure, which occupies 110,000 square feet, was designed with lean manufacturing practices in mind, and will allow the company to double its production capacity. The new premises are also the new headquarters of...
  • 25 July 2018

    RadiciGroup in East Europe with Hromatka

    The producer and supplier of polyamide and polyester engineering plastics RadiciGroup Performance Plastics and the Hromatka Group - with its subsidiaries Aectra Plastics and Plastoplan Polska, specialized in the marketing and distribution of high-tech specialty polymers - entered a strategic agreement for the distribution of engineering polymers…
  • 18 July 2018

    Lanxess strengthens R&D for aqueous polyurethane dispersions

    Specialty chemicals company Lanxess will open a new applications development and technical services (AD&TS) laboratory for polyurethane dispersions (PUDs) in Latina, Italy. As part of the existing Urethane Systems AD&TS centre, the new lab will operate as a standalone facility dedicated to PUDs. It has been built with the scope of...
  • 18 July 2018

    Gimatic Sistemi opened in Ljubljana

    Italian industrial automation components manufacturer Gimatic recently opened a new branch in Slovenia. Headquartered in Ljubljana, Gimatic Sistemi will look after the Slovenian and Croatian markets and supply solutions in various fields: end-of-arm tools (EOAT), handling devices and pneumatic and electronic components...
  • 18 July 2018

    A first major landmark in the mixing sector

    Just a few days ago, Promixon has turned five years old, and the anniversary of its establishment has given the company an opportunity to take stock, for the first time, of its activity. This manufacturer has grown rapidly in these early years and its turnover, deliveries and staff are the elements that best illustrate its expansion...
  • 11 July 2018

    Davis-Standard acquires Brampton Engineering

    The leading provider of multi-layer AeroFrost air blown and AquaFrost water quenched film systems, film winding and many other film production solutions, Brampton Engineering of Brampton (Canada) has been acquired by Davis-Standard. “Today we are pleased to welcome Brampton Engineering with their globally recognized...
  • 11 July 2018

    The hundredth machine to Rosti China for the thirty years in Ningbo

    Demag Plastics Machinery (Ningbo) delivered its 100th injection moulding machine to Rosti China in the second quarter of 2018. Its 1,100 employees makes the Chinese subsidiary of the Swedish plastics processor the largest of the eight Rosti production plants worldwide. Rosti has had its own production plant in China since...