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According to various sources, India’s annual per-capita consumption of plastics has now reached 8 kg, compared to 5 kg five years ago. This is a value still far below that of North American and European countries, and will remain so even in 2020 despite a substantial projected increase to 20 kg. The rapid expansion of various application sectors…

On 20 June, at the Amut factory in Marano Ticino (near Novara), a presentation including start-up was held for a new dry removal system for shrink labels from post-consumer PET bottles, combined with a device for separating the bottles which come to recycling facilities pressed into bales from collection and selection centres...

Smart is the name of the new range of rotational moulding plants by Persico. The news was announced on 18 June during the presentation of the results of the Rotofast project, which saw the involvement of the company based in Nembro (near Bergamo, Italy), along with various Italian and European partners. The first Smart machine will be ready at...

Manufacturer of foaming machines and turnkey plants for the polyurethane industry, Impianti OMS will display at the exhibition K 2013 (Dϋsseldorf, October 16-23) one Ecomaster high pressure foaming machine as well as the Y2K high pressure self-cleaning mixing heads and a series of low pressure mixing heads in particular the last version “Ultimix…

Calysta Energy and NatureWorks have entered into an exclusive, multi-year collaboration to research and develop a practical, world-scale production process for fermenting methane - a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) - into lactic acid, the building block for Ingeo, lactide intermediates and polymers made from renewable materials...

To recover debts of approximately 31 million euro, Montefibre, the historic acrylic fibre company for years in financial distress, will sell 50% of its stake in the joint venture Jimont Acrylic Fiber to its Chinese partner Jilin Chemical Fiber Group. Kpmg estimates the value of the transaction to be between 35 and 44 million euro...

After more than 25 years of collaboration, the Reifenhäuser has taken over Nuova Protex, a company based in Sumirago (near Varese), specializing in the construction of winding and rewinding systems for monofilaments, multifilaments, raffia, flat wires, strappings and so on. Following the operation, the Varese-based manufacturer took...

Presented by Novamont on 14 June, the fourth generation of Mater-Bi integrates two consolidated technologies based on complexed amides and polyesters from oils with other two new technologies of recent generation. It is ideal for a vast array of applications - flexible and rigid film, coating, moulding, extrusion and thermoforming...

Production in India of polyurethane articles is expected to reach 425,000 tons by 2015. This forecast was made by the Polyurethane Association of India which represents the local polyurethane industry. In detail, production of sheets/blocks might reach 140,000 tons (compared...

On June 12 and 13 DuPont showed its latest innovations to the international press at its Innovation Centre in Geneva. They will be introduced during the next edition of the K show in Dϋsseldorf (October 16-23). Innovative technology and material solutions to automotive lightweighting - helping automakers take weight out of vehicles to...

A project entitled the "Influence of drying treatments on plastic products", developed by two students from the University of Padua under the guidance of Alberto Saccon, who is a member of the R&D team at Moretto, has won the Mimprendo 2012-2013 prize, this year being awarded for the fourth time. The presentation ceremony took place on...

According to VDMA, German plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers are expecting sales to fall by a modest one per cent this year, taking output to around 6.5 billion euro. For 2014, an increase of 6 per cent to some 6.9 billion euro is anticipated. “In October last year, the association had predicted three per cent growth for 2013. Based on…

Grafe has recently launched a new combination of colourants that will significantly reduce the heating up of PA and PET surfaces caused by the thermal absorption of carbon pigments. This temperature minimizing effect is also known under the name “cool black”. The solution is available as masterbatch and can dye PA and PET yarns with a dark colour…

The Italian designer and manufacturer of implantable dental and infusion systems Plan 1 Health (located in Amaro, near Udine) chose Eviva polysulfone (PSU) from Solvay Specialty Polymers for the production of their implantable catheter ports, named Healthport. This resin was selected thanks to its biocompatibility, dimensional stability and MRI (…

In 2013 Kreyenborg, amongst the world leading companies in melt filtration for the plastics industry, celebrates its 60th anniversary. The family-owned company started in 1953 with the trade of tubular grounding busses for lightning conductors and focused in 1957 on the construction of mixers for concentrates and hammer...

Enrico Gribaudo has been appointed member of SIPA's board of directors. He joined the company in June 2011 and since then he is general manager. In September of the same year, the company drew up a new "road map" for growth and success, which it calls "Shape our Future" and is now approaching the first half of the four-year...

Two high pressure foaming machines will be installed by Saip in Mexico and in the Dominican Republic for the insulation of residential doors with polyurethane low density rigid foam. The first project involves the installation of a high pressure dosing machine model SPB 100 with two automated...

The Chinese Finance Ministry has announced that its incentives program for energy-efficient electrical appliances which had been put in place on 1 June 2012 in order to boost domestic demand was terminated on 1 June 2013. The program offered incentives ranging from 100 to 400 CNY/t (16-65 USD/t) on five categories of energy-efficient...

During the pre-K press conference held on 5 June 2013 in Mainz, Germany, Maurizio Butti, COO of Songwon, placed particular emphasis on the signing of long-term distribution agreements with the Italian company Sabo (Levate, Bergamo), the world's second producer of HALS (Hindered Amine Light Stabilizers) and a major...

B&R X20 and X67 modules now cover temperature ranges from -25°C to +60°C, making them suitable for installation in machines and systems reaching high process temperatures, as are typically found in the plastics industry. The company has considerably increased the temperature range of their X20 and X67 control and I/O systems...