Marketing

More than one thousand exhibitors have already been assigned a stand to show their products at Plast 2018, covering around 95% of available space. Therefore Promaplast, the organiser of the show, invites interested companies to apply at the earliest, in order to reserve last spaces available in the ​final phase of stand...

Covestro has begun operations at a new production facility for aqueous polyurethane dispersions (PUDs) at its Dormagen site. Along with a current expansion of production in Barcelona, the company is thus boosting its capacities in Europe significantly. In order to meet global demand, Covestro is also building a new facility in China, as well as…

“Vienna is the battenfeld-cincinnati competence center for PVC processing with its main focus on pipe, profile and board extrusion lines as well as WPC and NFC processing equipment. For the general and technical management of the facility, we have found two managers with excellent references from the plastics industry to drive the further...

Under the terms of a merger agreement dated November 10, 2017, Detrex Corporation and Italmatch Chemicals Group jointly announced that they have entered into a plan of merger pursuant to which a newly formed subsidiary of Italmatch will acquire Detrex for 27 dollars a share in cash. The proposed merger is expected to close by December 31, 2017...

The metalworking operations of the IMS Deltamatic Group - the owner of brands such as Goebel IMS, Rotomac, Deltamatic and Kasper - have been recently moved to a new 9,000 sqm manufacturing plant in Seriate, near Bergamo (Italy). Due to the exponential increase in demand across all brands, IMS Deltamatic. expanded its production with the new...

No less than 175 operators in the rubber processing industry took part in the event organized by IMG on the evening of November 16 in Villa Piovanelli, Brescia (Italy). The Brescia-based rubber injection moulding machine manufacturer, that is also the official distributor for Italy of Haitan machines for thermoplastics, organized the event as a…

Versalis, a major producer in the polymers and elastomers industry, and Mazrui Energy Services, a leading oil and gas services company in the Middle East, have announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding that sets forth a game-changing partnership for the local production of innovative production chemicals for the oil and gas industry...

Hennecke is acquiring all shares of OMS Group. The legal closing of the transaction will be complete by the end of December 2017. “With this acquisition, two technological leaders in the polyurethane machinery business are joining forces to open up opportunities for stronger growth”, emphasizes Rolf Trippler, managing director of Hennecke. Global…

Two scholarships, worth 80 thousand euros each, will be making available to the University of Brescia by Gefran to finance research degrees in the Industry 4.0 and IoT fields and the predictive maintenance of sensors. In fact, Gefran has signed an agreement with the Engineering Faculty of the University of...

Among more than one thousand exhibitors applied at Plast 2018, the following already confirmed they will join the 3D Print area, devoted to 3D printing and related technologies: Arburg, Elabora, Energy Group, Ermanno Balzi, Galassia 3D, Kreon Italia, Missler, ML Engraving, Proto Labs, Team3D, Tesar, Texer Design and Vega, and several other...

Biesse now offers a complete range of machines that can carry out all machining operations on advanced materials. Selco Plast is a range of single line panel saws that can meet the widest ranging production needs. The Rover Plast machining centres, designed for artisans and medium to small industries thanks to innovative developments...

Global specialty chemical group operating in the production and marketing of performance additives for lubricants, industrial water and process treatment, oil and gas, and plastics, Italmatch Chemicals has acquired Sudamfos Do Brasil, a Brazilian distribution company, specialized in marketing of phosphonates, phosphates and other specialty…

Industrial technology provider to the plastics processing community, Husky announced a strategic win with Pascal Medical, who has purchased and installed twelve Husky systems. Pascal Medical has chosen Husky to be its partner in the creation of an innovative, technologically advanced product complex for the manufacture of...

The Italian sales of plastics and rubber machinery to Mexican processors have been growing steadily and significantly over the past three years: from 85 million euros in 2014, 100 in 2015, to 173 in 2016. This is the best performance ever posted, at least among the top ten Italian export markets for the sector. That’s why Amaplast (Italian trade…

Hennecke is acquiring all shares of OMS Group. The legal closing of the transaction will be complete by the end of December 2017. “With this acquisition, two technological leaders in the polyurethane machinery business are joining forces to open up opportunities for stronger growth”, emphasizes Rolf Trippler, managing director of Hennecke...

The decision was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of Clariant and Huntsman. In a joint statement, Peter R. Huntsman, president and CEO of Huntsman, and Hariolf Kottmann, CEO of Clariant, stated: “We remain convinced that the proposed merger of equals as agreed to on May 21, 2017, would have been in the long-term best interests of…

Materials manufacturer Covestro delivered the strongest quarter in the company’s history in the third quarter of 2017 as the positive trend of the first six months carried on. At 491 million euros, net income was up 89.6% on the prior-year quarter. At the same time, Ebitda was 50.2% higher, and sales rose 16.9% over the same period the previous…

Basf Group recorded significant sales and earnings growth in the third quarter of 2017. “The positive demand development continued in the third quarter of 2017. We achieved solid volume growth, even compared with the strong prior-year quarter,” said Kurt Bock, chairman of the board of executive directors of Basf...

The Mossi Ghisolfi Group announced that the companies: Mossi & Ghisolfi, M&G Finanziaria, Biochemtex, Beta Renewables, Italian Bio Products, IBP Energia, M&G Polimeri, and Acetati Immobiliare have filed, before the Tribunal of Alessandria, an application for admission to the arrangement with creditors procedure (“Concordato Preventivo…

At Fakuma 2017, Plastic Metal exhibited a 280-ton double injection moulding machine in the context of a moulding station for the production of wheels for toys of the brand “Clycformers”. The machine displayed was a HE version that proved the top performances, quality production and energy saving of the hybrid machines...