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Moretto Group opens its new branch, in Columbus, Ohio, continuing the build-up in local support for its world leading solutions. With over 30 years experience in the developing and manufacturing of plastics automation, Moretto Group wants to develop its local presence and consolidate a strong relationship...

Effective January 1, 2015, Gerold Schley will become president and CEO of the battenfeld-cincinnati group. Following Jürgen Arnold’s resignation, the company’s CFO Michael von Cappeln has acted as interim president and CEO. Gerold Schley has previously held several leading positions in the...

The honour of being posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame was bestowed by the Plastics Industry Trade Association and the Plastics Academy on six individuals during Antec 2014 in Las Vegas. One of the inductees was Hans Reifenhäuser, entrepreneur and long-time president of Reifenhäuser Group, who deceased in 1999...

According to data put together by SPI (Society of the Plastics Industry), US manufacturers of plastic and rubber processing machinery are currently recording increasing turnovers. In the third quarter of 2014, sales increased by 6% compared with the second quarter, in which they had recorded practically the same levels as in January-March...

The specialty chemicals group, Italmatch Chemicals, has successfully completed the acquisition of all shares of GRS Chemical Technologies, a company with manufacturing base in Naples (Italy), specialized in water soluble polymers and fuel related cleaning technologies. Through the acquisition...

Dolci Extrusion and Bielloni Converting have merged to create a new industrial enterprise named Dolci Bielloni. The newborn company will benefit from the synergy between the two brands to provide increasingly detailed, fast and effective service, optimizing the production time for high-tech systems as well as time-to-market...

In the wake of the good result recorded in 2012, Rubber, the fair dedicated to the rubber industry, will be returning to Plast 2015, the event scheduled to be held at the Fiera Milano exhibition centre from 5 to 9 May next year. Rubber was already a great success at the last Plast fair, which saw its return after an absence of...

Shanghai is the venue, from 3 to 5 December, for the fourteenth Rubbertech fair, while Istanbul is hosting, from 4 to 7 December, the twenty-fourth PlastEurasia exhibition. The first is an interesting event for the rubber processing technology sector in China, while the second is a key event for the plastics and rubber sector in Turkey...

A subsidiary of B-Tec, Tecno System, has recently announced that it has purchased the Divisione Meccanica operations from TPV Compound. As the Tecno System management explains, “the strategic goal of the project is to safeguard and unite important know-how in the production of extrusion lines by TPV Divisione Meccanica...

Xtreme Sincro is the name of the integrated plant for the production of PET bottles introduced by Sipa at Brau Beviale 2014, the exhibition dedicated to the beverage field held in Nuremberg on November 11-13. The system combines the injection-compression of preforms and the stretch-blow moulding...

M&G Chemicals, a chemicals manufacturing and engineering company and a leading global supplier of PET, announced that it recently signed an agreement to issue 300 million dollars in new equity to TPG Opportunities Partners and affiliated funds (TPG). As part of the transaction, TPG will take a minority stake in the company...

The new EZPrene SHF (Super High Flow) series of vulcanized thermoplastic elastomers (TPVs) has been introduced in Europe by Ravago Petrokimya and it is produced thanks to a company’s proprietary cure technology. It currently includes 3 grades, ranging in hardness from 65 to 90 Shore A. Each material...

In order to support the launch of new products by the injection moulders of Central Italy, Arburg and Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) have established the EiM (Easy Injection Moulding) Tech centre, with the aim of studying, developing and optimising plastics injection moulding applications...

A British recycler has engaged Amut and Amut Ecotech to supply a unit for selecting and washing discarded containers in HDPE and PP with a capacity of 10 t/h. The containers coming from urban and industrial collection are separated into two groups, food containers and those for detergents and chemical products...

The range of Gefran magnetostrictive position sensors has been widened with the introduction of two new models, MK4P and IK4P, provided with Profibus interface. Although, in recent years, the use of industrial Ethernet devices has been spreading in automation and process solutions, conventional...

Fifty companies will be selected by Promaplast, organizer of Plast 2015, and ComoNext, scientific-technological park of Lomazzo (Como), to participate free of charge at the 17th edition of Plast, the trade show to be held in Milan from 5 to 9 May 2015. The initiative, entitled “Win and Participate in Plast 2015” is...

As in previous years, the European glass fibre reinforced plastics (GRP) market report 2014 by AVK (the German professional association for fibre composites plastics/composites) is based on data for those European countries, for which production figures can be recorded and validated...

The closing date for applications in the second edition of the international competition Plastic Technologies Award - launched by Promaplast (organizer of Plast 2015) and PoliDesign (consortium of the Politecnico di Milano) - has been extended to November 27, 2014. The competition is focused on the study of original and innovative application…

This was the main message to come out of PolyTalk, an event recently organised in Brussels (November 4-5) by PlasticsEurope. Patrick Thomas (president of PlasticsEurope and CEO of Bayer MaterialScience), in his introductory address, declared: "If we truly believe in Europe’s reindustrialisation, all the...

The Board of Executive Directors of Basf has announced the following personnel changes. Gabriel Tanbourgi, president of the Care Chemicals division, will retire effective December 31, 2014; he will be succeeded by Hans-W. Reiners, who is currently president of the Performance Chemicals...