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S+S Separation and Sorting Technology, manufacturer of machines and systems for the detection and separation of contaminants, for product inspection, and for the sorting of material flows, is changing its name and logo. As from the end of March 2015 it will be called Sesotec...

The global materials company and manufacturer of plastics, latex and rubber, Styron announced it has changed its name to Trinseo, effective February 1, 2015. The name Trinseo comes from the word “intrinsic”, meaning something is essential and belonging by its nature. The new company name reflects how Trinseo’s technologies and...

About three months are left before Plast 2015 opens its doors (together with the satellite-shows Rubber 2015 and 3D Plast) and 1,200 exhibitors have already applied, that is almost 5% more compared to the same period of three years ago. Space is almost sold out, however, some possible solutions to exhibit can still be found...

According to a new study published by Freedonia, US demand for plastic film is expected to grow 1.5 percent per year through 2018 to 15.4 billion pounds, valued at 24.9 billion dollars. Expected price stabilization stemming from elevated plastic resin supply will improve the cost-competitiveness of plastic film versus other materials.  Increased…

On January 30 the Hamburg-based Krahn Chemie Group has taken over the distribution of the specialty plasticizers of Ferro in the regions Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux and Poland. Ferro is already a longstanding partner of Pietro Carini in Italy which has been part of the Krahn Chemie Group since April 2014. The...

Starting from January 22, 2015, the online catalogue of Plast 2015 exhibitors is online and it can be consulted through Expopage portal, according to search criteria available in the website of Plast. It will assure a great visibility to the exhibitors, well beyond the five days of the fair itself, until the...

According to forecasts by the Tami (Taiwan Association of Machinery Industry) plastic materials machinery committee, 70% of injection machines smaller than 1600 tons in operation in the country will, within a decade or so, be electric-type ones, a trend that will also see local manufacturers...

One of the Italian companies named national champion at the eighth edition of the European Business Awards was Amut, manufacturer of extrusion lines, thermoforming machines and recycling plants. And Amut is now in the running for the final prize, the national Ruban d’Honneur. “The European Business Awards...

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...