Pallets for Ikea The IPPR Institute of Milan reports that traditional wooden pallets will soon be replaced at Ikea sales outlets by injection...
Biodegradable water bottle To make bike races yet more “ecological”, the Portuguese company Polisport has produced an extruded-blow moulded water bottle...
An array of pad printing During PLAST 2012, Tosh, headquartered in Rozzano (Milano), celebrates 30 years of activity in pad printing...
Multiple drives TPD-M is a servo-drive particularly suitable for centralized automation, as in plastic packaging production, where several...
Sprue removal Dega, headquartered in Iseo (Brescia, Italy), introduces a new solution at PLAST 2012 for removing sprues from...
Photovoltaic cellular panels A new range of machines is introduced by Omipa, headquartered in Morazzone (Varese, Italy), at PLAST 2012 (Fiera Milano, 8-12 May) for the production...
Awards ceremony The first day of PLAST 2012 - Tuesday, 8 May - will feature an awards ceremony in the Convention Centre adjacent to the Rho fairgrounds...
Twelve mandrels The new Servotube printing machines with technology developed by Omso, based in Reggio Emilia (Italy), are introduced at PLAST 2012...
Innovation for preforms During PLAST 2012, Sacmi, based in Imola (Bologna, Italy), introduces the new IPS (Injection Preform System)...
100% electric A new all-electric injection moulding machine designed and manufactured by BMB, based in Brescia (Italy), has been introduced...
PVC global market Now that the global recession has ended, the construction industry will again boost demand for PVC. The average annual growth rate of 3.3% seen...
Biopolymers for Danone The Dutch manufacturer Avantium has announced a collaborative agreement with the multinational Danone, world’s number two...
Austrian expansion Engel management has announced that its largest Austrian plant, in Schwertberg, will be further...
Rubber recycling One of the more critical aspects of rubber regards the difficulty in recycling it: once it has been vulcanized, it loses its plasticity and cannot...
Winning dice Adler di Barasso (VA) will present new machines at PLAST 2012 (Fiera Milano, 8-12 May), including the GF-123 dicer for inline granulation of...
Electric blow moulding (2) Magic MP (Monza, Monza-Brianza, Italy) will display three electrical extrusion-blow moulding plants in operation at PLAST 2012; two of them...
Standards for magnetic chucks The Working Group revising the European standard for the safety requirements of plastics and rubber presses (EN 289:2004+A1:2008) has requested a...
Steady growth The 2011 final balance for the Italian plastics and rubber machinery industry confirms the forecasts worked out some months...
New lab Farrel Corporation has recently opened their new state-of-the-art Process Laboratory & Customer Demonstration Facility. The lab is in...
Efficient shredder CMG Granulatori, headquartered in Budrio (Bologna, Italy), introduces its new TRM-1200-47K-directdrive shredder with electric brushless...
