Marketing

Polymer markets have shown recently a high volatility combined, during the first part of 2015, to an extreme lack of supply in Europe despite a wave of new capacities being built in Middle East and in Far East. The revolutionary impact of American shale oil and shale gas seems to have come to an impasse after the oil prices dropped...

Alliances and partnerships between companies help boost production capacity and system efficiency, extend the commercial offering, enrich the expertise of individual enterprises, and help provide better coverage for industry markets. These are some of the arguments made at the Assocomaplast seminar held at Gefran’s premises on...

Trelleborg has signed an agreement to acquire ČGS Holding - a privately-owned company with leading positions in agricultural and specialty tires as well as engineered polymer solutions. The total cash consideration amounts to approximately 10.9 billion Swedish crowns (more than 1.1 billion euros) on a cash and debt-free basis...

To highlight the fruits of that collaboration with customers in Europe, Sabic has introduced a pioneering and award-winning campaign, Stories of Possible. Hosted at sabic.com/storiesofpossible, this campaign is to capture, in a series of six personal stories, a customer's ambition and how Sabic helps to “make their vision possible” in order to...

The Industrial Group of Moog has launched a contest to find the oldest operating Moog servo valve. The company will also be sponsoring monthly drawings to give people with newer valves a chance to participate. This contest is part of a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Moog’s operations in Europe...

The international group Rollon, based in Vimercate (close to Milan) and world leader in the production of linear motion systems for various sectors - from railways to aerospace, from machine tools to plastics industry - announced the closing of a deal to take over the German company Hegra which specialises in the production of telescopic and…

Effective September 1, 2015, TER Chemicals Distribution Group transferred its Italian business with specialty chemicals into the recently founded company TER Italia. With this step TER Group further expands its distribution services in Southern Europe. Oliver Zimmermann, CEO of TER Chemicals Distribution Group, mentioned: “It was only...

On October 20, 2015, Switzerland-based Maag has agreed to acquire US-based Gala Industries, an important manufacturer of underwater pelletizing systems, centrifugal pellet dryers and process solutions for the plastics industry.

In 2015, Piovan opened two sales and service branches in Africa. One is in operation in Algiers (Algeria), and the other in Johannesburg (South Africa). The purpose of the investment is to establish a presence on a continent where, despite the recent geopolitical crises that have affected it, the company shows strong potential for development...

The recycling of plastic appears to be gaining ground in Israel. This is what the results of a recent survey distributed by Israel’s central statistics office on the recycling habits of its local citizens in 2014 suggests. According to the...

A new chapter opens in the long history of Ipack-Ima. Fiera Milano - the traditional venue of one of the world’s leading exhibitions for processing and packaging technology since its very first edition - now also acquired its ownership.

Italy’s manufacturers of plastics and rubber processing machines and equipment certainly seem to be telegenic, at least judging by the latest TV appearances of some of them.

The ceremony held to inaugurate Go Trade Mx, the new subsidiary of the Frigosystem group, world leading manufacturer of industrial refrigeration and temperature control systems, took place on September 22 in Queretaro, Mexico. The event was attended by the honorary consul Giovanni Bellei, by representatives of...

Since October 1, Stefan Müller (51), the new global head of sales takes over the responsibility for the worldwide sales of antimicrobial products for polymers and textiles for the Swiss company Sanitized. The business information specialist with German roots has over 25 years of international...

A recent report from industry consultants Applied Market Information, shows that polymer demand is slowly returning to growth, after nearly three years of fairly flat market conditions, but markets are potentially being harmed by the shortages of raw material. In AMI's 2015 European Plastics Industry Report, European polymer markets are forecast…

On September 4, 2015, Lehmann&Voss&Co. took over the Solingen-based compounder WMK Plastics. The family firm headquartered in Hamburg is thus extending its range for the plastics industry. WMK Plastics employs just under 40 people at its ultra modern site in Solingen, which it...

On September 23, Italian hot runner specialist HRSflow officially put on stream its new US production facility in Byron Center, near Grand Rapids, Michigan. More than 200 guests, the majority of them plastics processors and suppliers to the North American automobile manufacturers, took up the invitation to attend the opening ceremony with...

American demand for rubber industrial articles should see an average annual rise of 3.4% up to 2019 reaching a value of 24.4 billion dollars. Market research conducted by the market research company Freedonia also highlights that this growth will be sustained mainly by the developments in the building sector, especially non-residential, as the…

On September 15, Resinex Italy announced its cooperation with Solvay Engineering Plastics to distribute in Italy Technyl and Oromid polyamides. With this new agreement Resinex completes the pan-European partnership with Solvay Engineering Plastics.

The statistical analysis by Assocomaplast on foreign trade data provided by Istat for the first six months of this year, reveals - compared to January-June 2014 - a markedly positive performance for Italian exports and imports of plastics and rubber machinery, equipment and moulds. The growth in exports recorded by Assocomaplast members...