Technology

  • 26 February 2020

    Sebastian Dombos new head of sales at Engel Deutschland

    Sebastian Dombos is the new head of sales at the Engel Deutschland Nuremberg location. This personnel decision sees the injection moulding machine manufacturer and system solution provider, headquartered in Schwertberg, Austria, prepare the generation change in the board of the subsidiary with foresight...
  • 26 February 2020

    Arburg acquires RepRap and expands in the additive manufacturing

    The entrepreneurial families Hehl und Keinath have taken over the German RepRap, based in Feldkirchen. The partners consider additive manufacturing to be an important complementary production method for plastics processing which holds significant promise for the future. Due to the successful market entry with the...
  • 26 February 2020

    More than two months of demonstrations

    From February 20 to April 30, Omso is opening the doors of its Reggio Emilia facility in order to exhibit a Wet-On-Dry version of its flexographic printing machine Servocup, and to demonstrate the capabilities of the machine in terms of reliability, speed of format change, production and quality. Visitors will also be offered...
  • 19 February 2020

    Where eagles dare

    Founded in 1950 in the historical town centre of Besano (near Varese, Italy), Adler celebrates, in 2020, its 70th year in business. Starting as a company specialized in designing and modifying any kind of machinery for the new-born Italian industry immediately after the Second World War, Adler soon began to manufacture machines for...
  • 19 February 2020

    Persico acquires the activities of bielomatik in the welding business

    The leading Italian multinational production systems manufacturer, Persico, has announced the acquisition of the plastic welding business of bielomatik Leuze, a manufacturer of plastic welding and lubrication systems based in Neuffen, Germany. The acquisition will significantly strengthen the market presence of both Persico Group...
  • 12 February 2020

    J826: productivity and brilliant colours

    Unleashing the power of 3D printed realism to a broader range of product designers and enterprise shops, Stratasys unveiled the new J826 3D printer at 3DEXPERIENCE World (Nashville, February 9-12). At about half the price of other J8-series PolyJet printers, the J826 combines part realism and productivity, including full Pantone-Validated colour…
  • 12 February 2020

    Persico Automotive in Freilassing: German expertise, Italian inspiration

    The technological know-how in the manufacture of automotive trim parts of Kiefel Automotive has been acquired by Persico. This transaction has enabled Persico to found the new German subsidiary Persico Automotive, which has extensive expertise in vacuum laminating. The new company is based in Freilassing...
  • 12 February 2020

    From Reggio Emilia to Miami to better assist North American customers

    In order to provide better services to existing and prospect customers from the North American market, Moss decide to go one step further and open a subsidiary company in the US. On January 2020, Moss unveil the nameplate of Moss North America, the company’s first site abroad...
  • 12 February 2020

    The format changeover on the machines for the preform inspection becomes autonomous

    Two technological leaps in one: Sacmi has now made the manual format changeover procedure for preform inspection machines both automatic and autonomous. As of today, smart format changeover control is performed by an all-new computer vision device, Sacmi Driva (Drive and Recognise with Intelligent Vision Algorithms)...
  • 05 February 2020

    Wittmann and FarragTech now under one roof

    For more than 25 years, FarragTech has been active in plant engineering for plastics processing in the auxiliary equipment sector, with one main focus within its product range on compressed air granulate drying. As the inventor of the compressed air granulate dryer as well as internal compressed air mold cooling for blow molding processes...
  • 05 February 2020

    In India to locally produce machines for automation and assembly

    Adding Pune to its global supply map, Gefit inaugurates its first factory in India. Gefit India manufacturing facility is set to produce automations lines and assembly machines to serve domestic market. The investment in this new factory reflects the company goal to be closer to its Indians customers, to...
  • 05 February 2020

    Innovations focused on circular economy

    Utmost operational efficiency, homogeneous regrind and absence of dust, integration 4.0, the most optimized total cost of ownership: these are all the benefits associated to the latest developments that CMG will present at PRS Europe, in Amsterdam on March 25 and 26. With the new Evoluzione range and the EV916 and EV616 models...
  • 05 February 2020

    75 years of activity for Icma San Giorgio

    Founded in 1945 by the Colombo family already active in the foundry sector since 1908, Icma San Giorgio began its business as a manufacturer of industrial machinery, initially for wood, later, a few years after the polypropylene was made by Giulio Natta, for plastics extrusion plants. Many milestones mark Icma's success in the...
  • 05 February 2020

    Presma's challenge to traditional moulding in the rubber and silicone sector continues

    The competitiveness and efficiency of the automated production process in the name of quality and safety represent, for Presma, the foundations on which it builds proposals that increasingly meet the expectations of rubber and solid silicone processors. After the Roto R12 12-station, horizontal injection moulding machine for rubber processing...
  • 29 January 2020

    INglass Group focuses on hot runners business with HRSflow

    The 100% of Inevo has been sold by INglass to Luigi Cover, owner of CST Stampi, and Roberto Fagarazzi, Sales Director of the INglass mould division, since 2015. Inevo is the new name of the INglass mould division that started as Incos in 1987. Incos, focused since the beginning on injection moulds manufacturing for the...
  • 29 January 2020

    Line for rPET sheets: no difference with the virgin material

    Some days ago, a complete PET sheet coextrusion line underwent final testing at the Union factory in San Vittore Olona (near Milan). Destined for the European market, the line includes a ZP 112/52 D twin-screw extruder with four degassing stages and a TR 90/44 D single-screw co-extruder for the production of A-B-A type thermoforming sheets for...
  • 28 January 2020

    Dual line for sorting and recycling of heterogeneous waste

    The latest project the German manufacturer Stadler has completed for Schroll is the new recycling centre at La Maix, in the Vosges, near the town of Épinal (France). This centre has been dimensioned to be able to process 80,000 tonnes of waste per year. On the customer’s request, the facility was designed to allow for future expansion and the...
  • 22 January 2020

    The technical and engineering direction of Arburg entrusted to Guido Frohnhaus

    At the start of the year, has taken over as Managing Director Technology & Engineering at Arburg in Lossburg. The 50-year-old engineer's remit includes the production, research and development, materials administration and technical administration departments. Guido Frohnhaus brings the ideal qualities to his role as Managing Director...
  • 22 January 2020

    Investments bring financial strength and innovation

    Innovation, digital factory and strengthening of the sales network and after sales service in each of the strategic markets. SCM Group continues to invest and the results speak for themselves. The group ended 2019 with a turnover in excess of 700 million euros, in line with 2018's record figures and on budget for the year. It was also in line with…
  • 22 January 2020

    A new version of the ALLrollEX range on show

    On March 11-13, Colines will be holding an open house at its manufacturing facility in Azzate (Varese, Italy) to unveil the latest version of its “best seller” ALLrollEX 1500mm 3-up. The cast film line series ALLrollEx is available in the 1000, 1500, 2000, 3000, 4000 and...