Sabic Innovative Plastics announced on October 14 that it is adding specialty PP compounding to its Bay St. Louis site (Missouri) in the first quarter of...
On October 12, a new Sidel Group subsidiary was opened in South Africa to better serve its customers in that specific area. The Johannesburg-based company will be...
According to the Japan Rubber Manufacturers Association, local production of rubber articles could top 1.3 million tons by the end of 2010, a 7% increase over 2009; it would be a...
Piovan’s international network is broadening. Just two years after the acquisition of the US company UNA-DYN, the Italian ancillary equipment manufacturer has announced an...
The Rubber Manufacturers Association estimates that, by the end of 2010, US tire production is poised to achieve an 8% growth rate over 2009, thanks to...
All of OMF Turra’s injection-moulding machine operations have been recently acquired by IMS Deltamatic. Based in Calcinate (Bergamo, Italy), the 200-person...
According to the latest survey carried out by Fédération de la Plasturgie, French production of plastics articles grew by 8% in the first half of 2010...
The Italian CPP film producer B-Pack Due, with plants in Campiglia Marittima (Livorno, Italy) and formerly part of Colines group, has recently been acquired by...
A new Sabic Innovative Plastics plant, for the production of Ultem PEI was opened in Cartagena (Spain) on September 23. The new site required a 300-million euro investment and will increase by 35% the company output of this material...
According to Japan Plastics Industry Federation, the local output of plastic products almost reached 2.8 million tons in the first half of 2010 (it was 5.3 million tons...
