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As preannounced here on MacPlas Online (November 4, 2014), Gerd Liebig remained in the plastics sector and has recently joined Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery. On January 19, in fact, the latter company announced the appointment of Liebig as Chief Sales Officer (CSO) from April 1st 2015...

Effective January 1, 2015, Reifenhäuser Kiefel Extrusion, the leading manufacturer of blown film extrusion lines has changed its name to Reifenhäuser Blown Film. Since 2009, the company belongs to the Troisdorf/North Rhine-Westphalia-based Reifenhäuser Group that underlines again the full integration of the company...

According to the reports and estimates provided by the market research company Smithers Pira, the market share of plastics in the Mexican packaging segment, which in 2012 reached 27.7%, compared to the 25.1% recorded in 2010, will show a growth rate exceeding 3% at least until 2017. This development will be driven...

On the occasion of the closing of the editorial office of MacPlas Online for Christmas holidays, the updating of the website will be suspended until January 7 and the next English newsletter will be sent on January 7. We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association, belonging to Confindustria, which groups together some 170 machinery manufacturers) has compared Istat (the Italian institute of statistics) foreign trade data for January-September of the current year with data for the same period in 2013 and confirms further growth in...

Moretto Group opens its new branch, in Columbus, Ohio, continuing the build-up in local support for its world leading solutions. With over 30 years experience in the developing and manufacturing of plastics automation, Moretto Group wants to develop its local presence and consolidate a strong relationship...

Effective January 1, 2015, Gerold Schley will become president and CEO of the battenfeld-cincinnati group. Following Jürgen Arnold’s resignation, the company’s CFO Michael von Cappeln has acted as interim president and CEO. Gerold Schley has previously held several leading positions in the...

The honour of being posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame was bestowed by the Plastics Industry Trade Association and the Plastics Academy on six individuals during Antec 2014 in Las Vegas. One of the inductees was Hans Reifenhäuser, entrepreneur and long-time president of Reifenhäuser Group, who deceased in 1999...

According to data put together by SPI (Society of the Plastics Industry), US manufacturers of plastic and rubber processing machinery are currently recording increasing turnovers. In the third quarter of 2014, sales increased by 6% compared with the second quarter, in which they had recorded practically the same levels as in January-March...

The specialty chemicals group, Italmatch Chemicals, has successfully completed the acquisition of all shares of GRS Chemical Technologies, a company with manufacturing base in Naples (Italy), specialized in water soluble polymers and fuel related cleaning technologies. Through the acquisition...

Dolci Extrusion and Bielloni Converting have merged to create a new industrial enterprise named Dolci Bielloni. The newborn company will benefit from the synergy between the two brands to provide increasingly detailed, fast and effective service, optimizing the production time for high-tech systems as well as time-to-market...

In the wake of the good result recorded in 2012, Rubber, the fair dedicated to the rubber industry, will be returning to Plast 2015, the event scheduled to be held at the Fiera Milano exhibition centre from 5 to 9 May next year. Rubber was already a great success at the last Plast fair, which saw its return after an absence of...

Shanghai is the venue, from 3 to 5 December, for the fourteenth Rubbertech fair, while Istanbul is hosting, from 4 to 7 December, the twenty-fourth PlastEurasia exhibition. The first is an interesting event for the rubber processing technology sector in China, while the second is a key event for the plastics and rubber sector in Turkey...

A subsidiary of B-Tec, Tecno System, has recently announced that it has purchased the Divisione Meccanica operations from TPV Compound. As the Tecno System management explains, “the strategic goal of the project is to safeguard and unite important know-how in the production of extrusion lines by TPV Divisione Meccanica...

Xtreme Sincro is the name of the integrated plant for the production of PET bottles introduced by Sipa at Brau Beviale 2014, the exhibition dedicated to the beverage field held in Nuremberg on November 11-13. The system combines the injection-compression of preforms and the stretch-blow moulding...

M&G Chemicals, a chemicals manufacturing and engineering company and a leading global supplier of PET, announced that it recently signed an agreement to issue 300 million dollars in new equity to TPG Opportunities Partners and affiliated funds (TPG). As part of the transaction, TPG will take a minority stake in the company...

The new EZPrene SHF (Super High Flow) series of vulcanized thermoplastic elastomers (TPVs) has been introduced in Europe by Ravago Petrokimya and it is produced thanks to a company’s proprietary cure technology. It currently includes 3 grades, ranging in hardness from 65 to 90 Shore A. Each material...

In order to support the launch of new products by the injection moulders of Central Italy, Arburg and Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) have established the EiM (Easy Injection Moulding) Tech centre, with the aim of studying, developing and optimising plastics injection moulding applications...

A British recycler has engaged Amut and Amut Ecotech to supply a unit for selecting and washing discarded containers in HDPE and PP with a capacity of 10 t/h. The containers coming from urban and industrial collection are separated into two groups, food containers and those for detergents and chemical products...

The range of Gefran magnetostrictive position sensors has been widened with the introduction of two new models, MK4P and IK4P, provided with Profibus interface. Although, in recent years, the use of industrial Ethernet devices has been spreading in automation and process solutions, conventional...