Marketing

By 2016, India is expected to achieve average yearly growth rates of 11.5% for BOPP film, 9.7% for cast film, 9% for coated film, and 8.9% for blown film. These are the forecasts for the Indian packaging film market publicized at the ElitePlus conference held in Mumbai on 25 and 26 September...

Italian manufacturer Syncro has acquired a majority shareholding in Plasmac, a UK based worldwide player in recycling machinery for both blown and cast film. Plasmac produces innovative products ranging from pneumatic edge-trim conveying systems, edge-trim recycling machines for both blown and cast line...

Some 300 delegates attended the International AVK Conference on Fibre-Reinforced Plastics/Composites, which was held in Düsseldorf for the second time, on October 6 and 7. Over 30 international speakers from industry and research presented new solutions for production processes as well as innovative...

The ninth edition of the international Iranplast fair, held on September 25-29 at the Tehran Permanent International Fairground, witnessed the return of European exhibitors, such as those from Italy and Austria, who brought life to their respective sections, both having been absent in 2012. There was a certain ferment in the air during...

After the recent rumours, the news is now official: Plastindia 2015 will take place in the new exhibition centre located in Gandhinagar, about twenty kilometres far from Ahmedabad, in the state of Gujarat. The decision of Plastindia Foundation to leave the historic venue of the Pragati Maidan exhibition centre...

In 2018 the world market in plastics for aerospace applications may reach a value of 10.5 billion dollars, as opposed to 6.2 in 2011, with a projected volume of nearly 88,000 tons. This is one of the results of a recent study by the US firm Transparency Market Research (TMR). The positive trend would be supported, in particular, by the increasing…

According to the organizer, the trade shows Equiplast, Expoquimia and Eurosurfas (Barcelona, September 30-October 3) have been marked by the boost to their international vocation. The number of high calibre visitors increased by 11% compared to the previous event. The three shows took place at the...

Launched at the end of 2013 by Baruffaldi Plastic Technology, Engin Plast and Comav, the Nip-Tech network (North Italian Plastic Technology) has now gone online with its own website (www.nip-tech.com). Among other information, it contains presentations of the three companies and their respective areas of...

2014 sees Star Automation Europe celebrating 25 years in business, a milestone that coincides with the fiftieth anniversary of its parent company Star Seiki. This important achievement has been marked by the development of an automated system for the production and packaging of disposable cutlery. It has been an important...

On October 10 CMS will officially open its new headquarters in Zogno (near Bergamo, Italy), where the company has grouped all its engineering and manufacturing activities, which now occupy a surface area of over 30 thousand square metres. It is a state-of-the-art headquarters that stands out, among other things...

Thanks to applications already received by some of the most important international companies of the sector, on the occasion of Plast 2015, 3D Plast will debut: a thematic section dedicated to additive manufacturing of polymeric products, rapid prototyping, modelling software, 3D print and similar technologies...

The Assocomaplast board, at its meeting on September 25, approved the membership applications presented by Erhardt+Leimer, SMC Italia and Sandretto. Thus, the number of companies belonging to the Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery and moulds manufacturers' association has risen to 166...

The exhibition Emballage for the packaging, processing, printing and handling sectors will take place from November 17 to 20, 2014. 1,500 exhibitors will occupy the halls 4, 5A and 6 of the exhibition centre Paris Nord Villepinte. 100 countries are represented and 100,000 professional visitors from all over the world are expected. According to...

According to statistics reported by SPI (Society of the Plastics Industry), US production of primary plastics equipment (injection molding, extrusion, blow molding and thermoforming equipment) grazed, in the second quarter of 2014, 300 million dollars, gaining about a 10% when compared with the total from second quarter...

Although they still seem to be only rumours awaiting official confirmation, the suggestion is that Plastindia Foundation, the company that organises the Plastindia fair, intends to move the next edition of the event, scheduled to run from 5 to 10 February 2015, from the Pragati Maidan exhibition centre in New Delhi...

The “national champions” have been selected for the first stage of the eighth European Business Awards: the Italian companies selected include Amut, the Novara-based manufacturer of extrusion, thermoforming and recycling plants. Along with seventy companies from Italy and over 700 European...

On September 25, The Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE) has appointed Russell Broome as its new Managing Director. Broome has almost a quarter century of experience in the plastics industry. He began his career as a plastics engineer focused on product design, manufacturing, and project management. This led to roles in sales and marketing...

At the International Fairground in Tehran, from September 25 to 29, 2014, will take place the ninth edition of Iranplast, the main Iranian exhibition for this sector, organized by National Petrochemical Company and supported by Iran Trade Promotion Organization and Iran International Exhibition Company...

Plast 2015 promotional tour continues and until the beginning of October will reach China, Romania, Taiwan, Iran, United Kingdom and Spain, on the occasion of sectorial exhibitions. In fact, an informative booth will be attended by the organizing secretariat and/or by local representatives of Plast 2015...

The analysis by Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association, belonging to Confindustria, which groups together some 160 machinery manufacturers) of the Istat figures for Italian foreign trade for the first half of this year shows a rise in import-exports of rubber and plastics equipment, compared to January-June 2013...