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Bespoke design and custom manufacture of blow moulding machines used to make bottles and containers in PET, PP, PLA and other resins is the core business of the Italian company Siapi. In 2013, it launched a new business strategy, namely a more hands-on approach and on-site support in target markets, tangible responses and tailor-made solutions...

The "Brush District" of Castelfranco Emilia (near Modena, Italy) was established about one year ago by Borghi and its partners, Techno Plastic and Unimac, for the creation of brush and broom manufacturing machines. At the K 2103 fair (Düsseldorf, 16-23 October), Borghi...

The Italian company Gefran has announced it has reached an agreement for the 100% takeover of Sensormate, a Swiss company specialised in the design, development and sale of industrial sensors. The agreement has been signed on June 26 by the managing director Alfredo Sala and is expected to be finalized by the end of July...

The board of directors of Novamont has appointed Gunter Pauli chairman of the company by unanimous decision. An entrepreneur, economist and author, the manager is known as the theorist behind the so-called “Blue Economy”, a sustainable economy patterned after the logic of nature, a perfectly integrated system without waste or...

After a still-positive trend in January and February (in the wake of the +5.9% result at the end of 2012), the first quarter of 2013 instead closed with a downturn for Italian exports of plastics and rubber processing machinery, according to the Istat figures processed by Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association belonging to Confindustria,…

The managing director of Plastribution, Mike Boswell, has been elected as the new president of the British Plastics Federation (BPF), the trade association for the UK Plastics Industry, with over 450 members and 1200 affiliated members. He succeeds Philip Watkins who has...

According to PlasticsEurope Deutschland figures, in 2012 German plastics production fell 3.6% from 2011, stopping at 19.5 million tons. The turnover of the industry – which employs some 37200 people – fell 0.8% to 25.1 billion euro. This overall decline is chiefly due to...

The Drive Technologies division of Siemens has launched a new CU250S-2 control unit series with positioning capabilities, for use within Sinamics G120 drive system, commonly employed in many plastics and rubber processing machines. Compared to its predecessors, this control unit supports vector control with encoder feedback. The safety functions…

Traditional bags for storing food in the refrigerator suffer from a classic problem: the tie. Normally, they come in packs that typically contain a roll of bags and a separate set of ties for closing them. However, the ties often get lost or there are not enough for all the bags in the roll. To get around this inconvenience, an Italian maker of...

According to various sources, India’s annual per-capita consumption of plastics has now reached 8 kg, compared to 5 kg five years ago. This is a value still far below that of North American and European countries, and will remain so even in 2020 despite a substantial projected increase to 20 kg. The rapid expansion of various application sectors…

On 20 June, at the Amut factory in Marano Ticino (near Novara), a presentation including start-up was held for a new dry removal system for shrink labels from post-consumer PET bottles, combined with a device for separating the bottles which come to recycling facilities pressed into bales from collection and selection centres...

Smart is the name of the new range of rotational moulding plants by Persico. The news was announced on 18 June during the presentation of the results of the Rotofast project, which saw the involvement of the company based in Nembro (near Bergamo, Italy), along with various Italian and European partners. The first Smart machine will be ready at...

Manufacturer of foaming machines and turnkey plants for the polyurethane industry, Impianti OMS will display at the exhibition K 2013 (Dϋsseldorf, October 16-23) one Ecomaster high pressure foaming machine as well as the Y2K high pressure self-cleaning mixing heads and a series of low pressure mixing heads in particular the last version “Ultimix…

Calysta Energy and NatureWorks have entered into an exclusive, multi-year collaboration to research and develop a practical, world-scale production process for fermenting methane - a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) - into lactic acid, the building block for Ingeo, lactide intermediates and polymers made from renewable materials...

To recover debts of approximately 31 million euro, Montefibre, the historic acrylic fibre company for years in financial distress, will sell 50% of its stake in the joint venture Jimont Acrylic Fiber to its Chinese partner Jilin Chemical Fiber Group. Kpmg estimates the value of the transaction to be between 35 and 44 million euro...

After more than 25 years of collaboration, the Reifenhäuser has taken over Nuova Protex, a company based in Sumirago (near Varese), specializing in the construction of winding and rewinding systems for monofilaments, multifilaments, raffia, flat wires, strappings and so on. Following the operation, the Varese-based manufacturer took...

Presented by Novamont on 14 June, the fourth generation of Mater-Bi integrates two consolidated technologies based on complexed amides and polyesters from oils with other two new technologies of recent generation. It is ideal for a vast array of applications - flexible and rigid film, coating, moulding, extrusion and thermoforming...

Production in India of polyurethane articles is expected to reach 425,000 tons by 2015. This forecast was made by the Polyurethane Association of India which represents the local polyurethane industry. In detail, production of sheets/blocks might reach 140,000 tons (compared...

On June 12 and 13 DuPont showed its latest innovations to the international press at its Innovation Centre in Geneva. They will be introduced during the next edition of the K show in Dϋsseldorf (October 16-23). Innovative technology and material solutions to automotive lightweighting - helping automakers take weight out of vehicles to...

A project entitled the "Influence of drying treatments on plastic products", developed by two students from the University of Padua under the guidance of Alberto Saccon, who is a member of the R&D team at Moretto, has won the Mimprendo 2012-2013 prize, this year being awarded for the fourth time. The presentation ceremony took place on...