Marketing

  • 14 November 2012

    Sealed bags... thanks to SAM

    Elba has developed the new SAM bagmaking machine in two versions, CH and HB, for the production of a wide range of medical bags. The CH bagmaking machine is suitable...
  • 14 November 2012

    PET 5-gallon bottle and handle

    America’s five-gallon water dispenser bottles market wants more sustainability, and Sipa has responded to this demand by developing a new version of these bottles...
  • 07 November 2012

    Biobasket by Philippe Starck

    Dubbed “ElisebyStarck”, the office wastebasket designed by Philippe Starck is made of Gaïalene bioplastics produced by Roquette, which won an Eco-Design Award at the...
  • 07 November 2012

    Petronas abandons PVC

    The petrochemical group Petronas has announced that starting in 2013 it will no longer produce PVC as a result of the scarce contribution of the material to the company’s...
  • 07 November 2012

    A century of Solvay Italia

    With the inauguration at the Milan Triennale of the exhibition-event "La nostra energia è il futuro" (Our Energy is the Future) on 30 October, Solvay celebrated 100 years of its...
  • 07 November 2012

    Growth in Indian rubber

    According to statistics of the Indian Rubber Dealers Federation, in the period April-September 2012 the production of natural rubber in India increased by only one percentage...
  • 07 November 2012

    Extrusion of thin films

    Dolci Extrusion has put the finishing touches on a plant for the extrusion of 5-layer cast stretch film with a width of 2 metres and thicknesses ranging from 8 to 20 microns...
  • 07 November 2012

    Flexography for packaging film

    A major Russian industrial group has recently commissioned Filippini & Paganini (a division of Saldoflex) to build a Flexol unit for 6-colour flexographic printing on packaging film...
  • 07 November 2012

    Open house in the USA

    An open house of Doss Visual Solution is scheduled on November 12-14 in Plymouth (Michigan). In this occasion two machines will be on display...
  • 31 October 2012

    Cutting machine for large-mouth containers

    Maer presents its new WM500 TC 10 rotary cutting machine for the high-speed, low-cost production of PET large-mouth containers for mayonnaise and sauces...
  • 31 October 2012

    The figures ofthe plastics industry

    The "Plastics - The Facts 2012" study on the European plastics industry published every year by PlasticsEurope, EuPC (European Plastics Converters), EuPR...
  • 31 October 2012

    Crisis for German packaging

    According to a recent survey conducted by the German Plastics Packaging Industry Association (IK), packaging manufacturers are quite pessimistic about sales...
  • 31 October 2012

    Torninova entersthe world of converting

    On October 26, Torninova announced the takeover of the Verona-based company Converting Technology, an Italian manufacturer of flexographic printing lines and owner...
  • 31 October 2012

    Effective market surveillance

    In a joint press release, the major European machinery manufacturers’ associations, including Euromap (Europe's Association for plastics and rubber...
  • 31 October 2012

    Born to coil

    On November 15 and 16, FB Balzanelli will open the doors of its factory in Borgaccio di Saltara, near Pesaro, to introduce the latest entries in its range of winding systems...
  • 24 October 2012

    Right light,perfect colours

    X-Rite presented the new SpectraLightQC lighting booth and the new hand-held RM200QC spectrocolorimeter at a press conference last 19 October in Milan...
  • 24 October 2012

    SupercleanQafter ten months

    The third meeting of the European research project SupercleanQ was held at the Fraunhofer Institute in Karlsruhe on October 16-17, 2012. After ten months of activity...
  • 24 October 2012

    Turkish plastics

    According to forecasts by the Turkish association PAGDER, representing the entire Turkish plastics industry, production of plastic products in 2012 should reach...
  • 24 October 2012

    A supercomputerfor the Leonardo project

    A new supercomputer able to perform up to 22 trillion operations per second has just been installed in Moretto’s R&D department. The new equipment is part of a...
  • 24 October 2012

    Ten-layer air bubble film

    On November 6-8, Torninova will open the doors to its production facility in Bastia Umbra (Perugia, Italy) for the final testing of the Coex Bubble-10 3000 line. This is a...