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Platinum Equity on December 18 announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Bolton, Ontario based Husky IMS International. The transaction is expected to close during the second quarter of 2018. Members of Husky’s management team will remain significant investors in the business through continued equity ownership...

The first Macchi road show in China took place on November 21 and 23 in Xiamen and Tianjin, and saw the participation of some of the finest names in the flexible packaging value chain. The discussion started from the new resins available on the market (Dow Chemicals), and continued examining the new blown film extrusion technologies (Macchi)...

The positive trend continues unabated in the Italian import-export market for plastics and rubber processing machinery, equipment and moulds. According to analyses of Istat foreign trade data for January-September 2017 by the Amaplast Study Center, imports increased by 12% and exports by 16% over the same...

From the food products that we find on the supermarket shelves and the books that we peruse in the bookshop to the houses that we live in and the cars that we drive: “behind the scenes” of our economy’s most central production sectors, lies a lengthy chain of outstanding and technological industrial machinery, a world of technologies that spans...

For the second time, Grupa Azoty invited business partners, representatives of the plastics industry and chemical processing to take part in The OXO Conference. This event, which was connected with the activity of OXO segment in Kędzierzyn (Poland), was recently held in Sopot (Poland) and its motto was “Illuminating the future of OXO and the…

The recent open house event had already been the second occasion as part of which Maag, Gala, and Reduction Engineering Scheer showcased their products together. This particular event centred around rotomoulding and took place at the subsidiary in Grossostheim, Germany. The event had been scheduled for two subsequent days...

The world manufacturer of premade spouted pouches, GualapackGroup continues its expansion in Latino American countries with the start of a brand new facility in Chile. Located close to Santiago, the new plant will be dedicated to pouches and spouted pouches production. “That new investment will strengthen our position in Latin America...

The trend towards matte surfaces is still continuing. For a few years now, new vehicle models with an extremely matt surface have become more common on the market, standing out clearly from the previous cars that had a metallic finish. This trend is, however, also noticeable in the consumer goods sector and is desired by many consumers...

Leading manufacturer of ABS resins and derivatives in Europe, Elix Polymers has signed an agreement with T&P Plastic for the distribution of its products in the Balkan region encompassing Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia. T&P Plastic, headquartered in Ljubljana, Slovenia,…

With KDSClick, the connection technology manufacturer Conta-Clip Verbindungstechnik has created an extremely flexible cable entry system that comprises inlays and various seal elements manufactured using thermoplastic elastomers from Kraiburg TPE. The TPE specialist developed for example halogen-free flame retardant materials in...

The competition “Excellence in Production” is organised each year by the WZL Laboratory for Machine Tools and Production Engineering at RWTH Aachen and the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT. A top-class and independent jury selects the best mould- and toolmaking companies from the German-speaking countries. This year 292...

The next edition of Chinaplas (April 24 - 27, 2018) will move to the new National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC) in Hongqiao, Shanghai - the largest single block building and exhibition complex in the world. With the new venue, it is expected that the exhibition area will increase to 320,000 sqm, a 28% growth...

A new integrated industrial complex for the production of elastomers was launched today in Yeosu, South Korea. The launch was attended by the local authorities, the ambassador of Italy to Korea and major customers. The new plants of Lotte Versalis Elastomers, a 50:50 joint venture between Versalis (Eni)...

More than one thousand exhibitors have already been assigned a stand to show their products at Plast 2018, covering around 95% of available space. Therefore Promaplast, the organiser of the show, invites interested companies to apply at the earliest, in order to reserve last spaces available in the ​final phase of stand...

Covestro has begun operations at a new production facility for aqueous polyurethane dispersions (PUDs) at its Dormagen site. Along with a current expansion of production in Barcelona, the company is thus boosting its capacities in Europe significantly. In order to meet global demand, Covestro is also building a new facility in China, as well as…

“Vienna is the battenfeld-cincinnati competence center for PVC processing with its main focus on pipe, profile and board extrusion lines as well as WPC and NFC processing equipment. For the general and technical management of the facility, we have found two managers with excellent references from the plastics industry to drive the further...

Under the terms of a merger agreement dated November 10, 2017, Detrex Corporation and Italmatch Chemicals Group jointly announced that they have entered into a plan of merger pursuant to which a newly formed subsidiary of Italmatch will acquire Detrex for 27 dollars a share in cash. The proposed merger is expected to close by December 31, 2017...

The metalworking operations of the IMS Deltamatic Group - the owner of brands such as Goebel IMS, Rotomac, Deltamatic and Kasper - have been recently moved to a new 9,000 sqm manufacturing plant in Seriate, near Bergamo (Italy). Due to the exponential increase in demand across all brands, IMS Deltamatic. expanded its production with the new...

No less than 175 operators in the rubber processing industry took part in the event organized by IMG on the evening of November 16 in Villa Piovanelli, Brescia (Italy). The Brescia-based rubber injection moulding machine manufacturer, that is also the official distributor for Italy of Haitan machines for thermoplastics, organized the event as a…

Versalis, a major producer in the polymers and elastomers industry, and Mazrui Energy Services, a leading oil and gas services company in the Middle East, have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding that sets forth a game-changing partnership for the local production of innovative production chemicals for the oil and gas industry...