Rhodia has signed an agreement to acquire PI Polymer, which forecasts about 13 million dollar sales revenue for its fiscal year 2010/11. This transaction supports the...
Application forms and General Regulations of PLAST 2012, which will be held in Fiera Milano fairgrounds, Rho-Milan, on May 8-12, 2012, are available...
After a decade of experience with fully-electric technology for injection-blow moulding machines, Meccanoplastica (located near Florence, Italy) now offers the new HL350...
Planetary cutters have been designed by Sica - an Italian company producing extrusion line ancillaries - for chip-free cutting of high-thickness HDPE and PP-R pipes (up to...
The trade association Assocomaplast has recently processed the official statistics for Italian imports and exports of plastics and rubber machinery. These data regard...
On December 15 Clariant announced its plan to expand global R&D activities at its site in Frankfurt, Germany. The new 23,000-square meter “Innovation Center”...
On December 14 Lanxess and DSM reached an agreement involving the sale of DSM Elastomers (producer of EPDM rubber under the brand name Keltan) to the German...
More than 170 companies and 360 experts from all around the globe came together in Düsseldorf (on December 1 and 2 2010) at the 5th European Bioplastics...
The UK Home Office and Materials KTN (a materials knowledge transfer organization) recently held an event called “21st century pint” to address the issue of violence involving...
Thanks to improvements in injection moulding machines, German trade in plastics and rubber machinery showed a good recovery in January-September 2010 with respect to...
Global business activities of Basf and Ineos in styrene monomers, polystyrene (EPS excluded), ABS, SBC and other styrene-based copolymers as well as...