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The first ChemOrbis Turkey Polyolefins Conference took place in Istanbul on June 10, 2014 with the participation of 150 companies and more than 230 players. The morning sessions started with Nexant Asia’s manager Andrew Lee Fagg’s presentation about the monomer outlook in global markets. Fagg mainly talked about the...

The report presented by Giorgio Colombo, the president of Assocomaplast, the Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery and moulds manufacturers' association, at the annual meeting of the association on June 10, revealed that 2013 was a year of consolidation for the plastics and rubber industry. With an overall...

The promotion of Plast 2015 makes a stop in Argentina and in France. On the occasion of Argenplas 2014 (Buenos Aires, June 16-19), at stand D-62A, in Hall 2-3, people can find an information point on Plast 2015, who already registered several interested operators during the first day of exhibition. Also at FIP 2014...

The final results are not in yet for the eighteenth edition of Plastpol, which took place in Kielce, Poland on 27-30 May. According to surveys by Assocomaplast, which had its own information stand at the fair, the total number of visitors did not exceed the 17,000 recorded during the previous edition (the organizers...

On 3 June in its Millesimo (Savona, Italy) facility, Demont officially unveiled “De Fuel”, a plant that transforms plastics into diesel fuel. There were more than 50 companies represented at the event, including large multi-utilities and smaller firms, which all responded enthusiastically to the new industrial product...

With a total of 640,000 tons processed in Italy in 2013, PVC has recorded a slight dip of 3% with respect to last year’s levels (660,000 tons), substantially in line with the trend of plastics generally. However, the two different types showed opposite trends: while rigid PVC fell by 7 percentage points, soft PVC grew by almost...

The tension increases. Soccer fans are eagerly awaiting the World Cup kick-off on June 12. But the official match ball - the "Brazuca" - is already available for a couple of months. It packs all the know-how and expertise gained in a nearly 30-year partnership between adidas and Bayer MaterialScience. The two companies...

A specialist in the construction of plastic and powder coating mixing solutions, Promixon counts TMX turbomixers among its lead products. The turbomixers are single or combined with the CMX high performance horizontal coolers, and the TRX high speed mixer containers, for fast mixing of power coating, additive, colour...

At the end of June, CMS Industries will complete the transfer of its Levate and Seveso facilities to the new site in Zogno (Bergamo). All operations of the company, which already had a production unit in the Zogno site, will be integrated into a single facility that will optimize organization and governance...

After the market success of the new generation Multiwind winders developed by Dolci Extrusion for the production of hand rolls, machine rolls and jumbo rolls, the Italian manufacturer proposes a new series of compact 1500 and 3000 mm lines for flat stretch films incorporating a single or a twin 1500 mm wide winder...

The new Dynatemp system was developed by Piovan as a mould temperature control system with shaped ducts. The injection moulding machine targets applications with high melting points (such as new generation engineering plastics) or long glass-fibre reinforced parts, particularly critical for thermal and mechanical process...

On June 10, 2013 Assocomaplast, the Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery and moulds manufacturers' association, held its annual meeting at the Kilometro Rosso science and technology park in Bergamo (Italy). In the morning at a private meeting, the new council and board of auditors for the 2014-2016 term were elected....

Studies and simulations have shown that the total demand during the four summer months in which the “zero emission” polar base is manned is approximately 7,000 kWh/month, and for the eight winter months around 2,000 kWh/month. For the energy consumption 54 MWh per year is assumed. This comes down to an average...

In 2013, almost 1.4 million kilometres of hot and cold water pipe were installed in Europe, according to the new edition of the study “Hot & Cold Water Pipes - the European Market”, which has just been completed by Applied Market Information (AMI). Circa 41% of the total volume of pipe is used for water plumbing, with the balance...

A recent study has shown that simple sheets of plexiglas (PMMA) “doped” with special fluorescent nanospheres are able to capture and concentrate sunlight, thus transforming windows into generators of clean energy. These Luminescent Solar Concentrators (LSC) utilize new semiconducting nanospheres developed by...

Five years ago, Luciano Belviso and Angelo Petrosillo wanted to build composite furniture. Now they design, build and sell small airplanes and ultralights in carbon fibre. The two partners have founded Blackshape Aircraft, an Italian civil aviation production company headquartered in Monopoli (near Bari, Italy) in the...

A Superflexol 4-colour flexographic printing machine with integrated lamination and embossing units has recently been installed by Saldoflex at the premises of an Italian processor. A single machine carries out three processing stages (printing, lamination and embossing) to obtain rolls of polyethylene-lined paper ready to be...

The first multilayer pipe manufacturing line in the Middle East using innovative technology was recently supplied by Tecnomatic. It is a solution capable of reaching output rates up to 2,000 kg/hour to produce PE 100 pipes with maximum diameters of 1,200 mm. Muna Noor - this is the name of the client company which operates in...

With its "rotary injection moulding machines", Presma is contributing to recycling post-consumer thermoplastic and other plastic waste as well as process scrap. For some years now, a number of models of this injection presses, which still today represent the company’s core business, has been destined to...

The manufacturer of machines, moulds and automation systems from Micheldorf, Mould & Matic Solutions, is gaining an edge in international market development. Haidlmair is acquiring an additional 50% share in Mould & Matic Solutions from Greiner Packaging International. This will make it the sole owner of...