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Through its local branch, the Softer Group will distribute the engineering polymers of Invista's Torzen range, based on polyamide 6.6, in Mexico. The two companies announced their collaboration agreement at Plastimagen, taking place in Mexico City on March 12-15. In addition to...

Negri Bossi's presence at Eurostampi, a tradeshow within Mecspe, is focussed on the Eleos 80 injection moulding machine, deriving from the EOS series but with electrically driven plastification, injection, and mould opening/closing. The clamping unit has a dual-platen configuration...

An important trend in electronics involves the development of materials, mechanical designs and manufacturing strategies that enable the use of unconventional substrates, such as polymer films, metal foils, paper sheets or rubber slabs. The last possibility is particularly challenging because the...

Until March 15 a new multilayer blown film production line featuring a width of 2200 mm and a net output rate of 750 kg/hour will be on display at the Dolci Extrusion factory in Biassono (Monza Brianza, Italy). The line is equipped with three extruders, one with a diameter of 105 mm and the...

Reliability and sturdiness are the characteristics which have allowed the KS industrial pressure transducer by Gefran to obtain the Sil2 certificate from TÜV Rheinland. Based on the technology of the thick film deposited on steel, it is a simple and compact device that withstands impact and vibration...

Working with the Société des Eaux d'Aix-les-Bains (SEAB) in France, Sidel, a global provider of PET machinery and solutions for liquid packaging, designed and produced a stylish new triangular bottle in PET for SEAB's still water product. It is currently the only PET triangular bottle in...

MC4-Motion Control For, an itinerant exhibition/conference devoted to motion control products and technologies, held in Bologna on March 5, provided Bosch Rexroth, as a guest at the sercos consortium stand, with an opportunity to unveil its most recent developments in the field of automation...

March 1, 1983 is the day on which Swatch unveiled, in Zurich, the first 12 models of its plastic watches. The idea did not seem particularly promising; indeed, in 1982, SMH (a Swiss company specialising in microelectronics) had unveiled, in the US, a prototype of...

On March 6, the European Parliament hosts a conference entitled "BioPlastics: A case study of Bioeconomy in Italy in the light of Horizon 2020", organised by the Kyoto Club with the endorsement of the Italian Environment Ministry. The purpose of the event is to highlight the...

The value of the global pipe market could reach 80 billion dollars by 2019. This is what has emerged from a recent study conducted by Ceresana and it is no surprise that the greatest growth is expected to be recorded in the markets of the Asia-Pacific region, which are expected...

On March 1, a new commercial subsidiary of Green Box opened in St. Bonnet de Mure, near Lyons in France. The new branch has the task of expanding the activities of the Italian manufacturer in France, offering sales and after-sale services locally. To this end, it relies...

Borealis, a leading provider of polyolefins, base chemicals and fertilizers, announced the acquisition of DEXPlastomers in Geleen (The Netherlands) from DSM Nederland and ExxonMobil Benelux. Until March 4, DEXPlastomers was a 50/50 joint venture ultimately owned...

Held on February 19 and 20, Icma San Giorgio open house was a success. The event dedicated to the advanced recycling of heterogeneous plastic scrap also saw the participation of the Italian company, Filtec, and Germany's Ettlinger as technological partners. Leading technical publications...

From March 4 to 12, Techne Graham Packaging Company Italia has organized a showroom at its headquarters in Castel Guelfo, near Bologna (Italy), to present its mechatronic rotary extrusion and blow moulding machine Rotax. RX24 is a high capability machine in terms of...

The recent efforts of Ultra System have been focused entirely on the development of "purging compounds" for specific application sectors. Machine cleaning is an important part of the production cycle for moulders and if the cleaning process is carried out correctly it eliminates...

The new Fermasil 91 and Fermasil 93 two-component silicones produced by Sonderhoff are characterised by cross-linking times of just a few minutes at ambient temperature. Both products are dry to the touch after 10-12 minutes, without need for a furnace, thereby saving on both process time and energy costs...

The eighteenth edition of Plastimagen - the main fair for the plastics and rubber industry in Central America - is going to take place in Mexico City, from March 12 to 15, 2013. More than 30 Italian companies will showcase through the national pavilion coordinated by Assocomaplast, the Italian plastics and rubber processing...

The extrusion and coextrusion lines manufactured by S Plastic Machinery for the sheet and plate production are characterised, in particular, by the use of high torque motors without gearboxes. This solution, which makes it possible to offer technologically advanced systems at competitive prices, first of all translates into a simplified...

To perform precision “V” cuts on PVC coated panels, equipment maker Zaffaroni offers the SMT work station, available in widths from 2500 to 4000 mm and with special tools dedicated for different final applications (hi-fi speakers, furniture, interior decoration products, etc.) The machine is equipped with a manual system for...

The Mossi & Ghisolfi group has chosen Italian equipment-maker Amut to supply a recycling plant for postconsumer PET bottles at Poços de Caldas in the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. The plant will come into operation in 2013 and will produce high quality flakes for the bottle-to-bottle process. This is the third major recycling line...