Marketing

From April 1, 2019, Michael Tregner has taken on responsibility for motan as managing director and for global motan production units as COO (Chief Operating Officer). He takes over for Ulrich Eberhardt, who retired after 40 years of service for the motan Group...

2018-2019 financial year was the most successful business one in the Erema history. Consolidated total turnover of more than 180 million euro in 2018-2019 represents an increase of 16% compared to the previous year. A total of 6,000 Erema plastics recycling machines are currently in operation in 108 countries around the world...

Together with customers and partners, Engel de Mexico opened a second location in Mexico in San Pedro near Monterrey. "We are thus shortening the distance to our customers in the very important industrial region in the north of the country", emphasized Peter Auinger, Managing Director of Engel in Mexico...

For the second consecutive year, Colines has been named as one of the 500 italian “Champions” companies by ItalyPost, a highly-qualified team composed of skilled financial analysts coming from the ModeFinance rating agency. The “Champion” report was realized by analysing all the 15 thousands Italian companies with a turnover between...

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by Solvay and Airborne at JEC World 2019. The two companies will partner on developing automated processing solutions for the industrialization and high volume use of composite materials. Industrializing the generation of tailored prepreg layups and forming technologies for high...

With Plastics Bavaria, Netstal has its first ever representative office in Romania. The Romanian plastics expert will be supporting the implementation of the growth strategy in this region. “With Plastics Bavaria, we are delighted to have gained such an established and...

JEC World 2019 closed successfully on March 14, after three intense days of innovation, networking and knowledge sharing. "With more than 112 participating countries and 27 national pavilions, JEC World - the place where the world of Composites meets - gathered the key players of the industry and their representatives, as illustrated by...

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess closed its fiscal year with a strong result that bodes well for the year that has just begun. In 2018, group sales rose by 10.2% from 6.53 billion euros in the previous year to 7.197 billion euros. At 431 million euros, net income was considerably higher than the previous year’s figure of 87 million euros. This…

One of the world's largest manufacturers of plastic injection moulding machines, Haitian International Holdings, announced its annual results as at December 31, 2018. In the fiscal year of 2018, the company’s sales reached 10.85 billion RMB (more than 1,43 billion euros), representing a sales increase of 6.5% compared to 2017. Despite the...

The Padua-based manufacturer, Moretto, is one of the 500 companies included in the “Champions 2019” list. The entries were selected by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which analysed the performance of the Italian SMEs that recorded a turnover between 20 and 120 million euros. The evaluation involved the financial statements of the...

Innovation is never the result of chance. It is, first of all, the result of passion, study and work. But we must not forget a key factor such as "human contamination”: only by mixing knowledge and ideas of different people, maintaining an open and flexible attitude, it is possible to create new projects...

Since March 1, Ute Panzer is the new Vice President Marketing and Communication at the international Engel Group, headquartered in Schwertberg, Austria. She is responsible for all marketing measures, campaigns, trade fair appearances and worldwide communications, and reports to Christoph Steger, CSO of the Engel Group...

At Mecspe 2019, to be held in Parma (Italy) from March 28 to 30, Kraiburg TPE will present itself with its market-oriented portfolio of thermoplastic elastomers and a comprehensive service package. Kraiburg TPE’s trade-fair appearance will focus on the new TEH technology platform developed for automotive and industrial applications. The...

The Italian trade association, bringing together about 170 manufacturers of plastics and rubber processing machinery, equipment and moulds, Amaplast, through its Statistical Studies Centre, has completed its year-end balance sheet for 2018, incorporating foreign trade data from Istat (Italian institute of statistics)...

Starting from April 1, Stefano Venturelli will replace Luciano Anceschi as CEO of the Tria Group in a transition that has been planned for months in agreement with ownership. After opening the Board of Directors to external members in 2016, the company further develops its leadership with this appointment. Continuing growth in volumes and the...

The EuPC Senior Executive Forum (SEF) 2019 is being held in Brussels on March 13. SEF was founded in 2006 to advise the EuPC Steering Committee and to provide strategic guidance on the plastics converting industry's most important developments. The forum is composed of industry leaders and senior-level executives from the top...

The leading industrial technology company serving the plastics processing industry, Milacron announced that Michael “Mac” Jones has been promoted to the position of President, Milacron Advanced Plastics Processing Technologies (APPT) Americas and Europe businesses...

The board of directors of DowDuPont has approved the previously announced separation of DowDuPont’s Materials Science Division, which will become the new Dow on April 1. The announcement marks a major milestone toward successfully separating Dow on April 1, to be followed by the expected separation of Corteva Agriscience from the new...

Global sales increased by 13% to 294.9 million euros with incoming orders rising by 6% to 314.2 million euros. The demand for IntElect all-electric injection moulding machines and El-Exis packaging machines was the main contributor to this major sales increase. These are the results of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag for the fiscal year of 2018...

Technological innovation, on one hand, favours the acceleration of modern development as well as changes in various markets, while on the other, is driven by the latter two. Chinaplas, being a prominent platform for innovative technology and communication, is highly responsive to the needs and the trends, and always brings in new elements...