Technology

Hillenbrand and Milacron Holdings entered into a definitive agreement under which Hillenbrand will acquire Milacron in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately 2 billion dollars, including net debt of approximately 686 million dollars as of March 31, 2019. This transaction represents a pivotal step in Hillenbrand’s vision to become a…

No matter whether you want to manufacture bumper elements or small caps from high-cavity moulds - the hydraulic GX series from KraussMaffei masters packaging as well as medical technology and automotive. The GX 1100, the new heavyweight of the series, sees its market launch at the K 2019 trade show...

July 11 has been a historic date for Plaxtech. After 10 years of development and industrial tests, the company headquartered in Udine has delivered the first of 8 Roteax systems to Jiana Environmental Protection Science and Technology. The ceremony was held in front of a number of representatives from the Chinese government, the...

The leading industrial technology company serving the plastics processing industry, Milacron, announced that it completed the divestiture of substantially all of its Uniloy Blow Molding Business consistent with the terms of the previously announced definitive agreement with Osgood Capital Group and Cyprium Investment Partners...

X-Lite Still is Sidel’s latest innovative 500 ml PET packaging solution for non-pressurised still water. Thanks to its extremely light industrial bottle design, it is the most cost-effective and sustainable packaging available on the market. This pioneering solution addresses the still water market for small size PET bottles, in particular,…

The Reifenhäuser Group has started construction of a new production hall at the headquarters in Troisdorf. With the groundbreaking ceremony, the project is now entering the intensive construction phase. The new production and assembly hall with an area of 3,000 square meters is expected to be completed by spring 2020...

Hong Kong-based injection moulding machine manufacturer Chen Hsong established a new German subsidiary, Chen Hsong Germany, in Kempen on the Lower Rhine, to better serve the German market as a highly competent partner and supplier of plastic injection moulding machines for both standard and specialized solutions...

At K 2019, the Erema Group will be showcasing its full range of products and services for the plastics recycling process more comprehensively than ever before. For the first time, a total of seven companies and business units - Erema, Powerfil, Keycycle, Pure Loop, 3S, Umac and Plasmac - will be representing the Erema Group at the trade fair. Even…

Munich-based mechanical engineering group KraussMaffei is reinventing itself. The provider of ready-to-use system solutions for injection moulding, extrusion and reaction process technology, is now consolidating all business divisions and its previous brands KraussMaffei, KraussMaffei Berstorff and Netstal within a single, unified brand...

Macchi financial statement for 2018 has been approved and Paolo Perazzi, General Manager of the company, has expressed a reasonable satisfaction and great optimism, commenting the results as follows: “2018 was a very special year for Macchi. Starting from July, together with the owners and the board we took a path towards...

An innovative FlexDisc filter for piston-activated screen changers substantially enlarges available filtration area without the need to increase machine size, enabling processors and recyclers to achieve finer filtration, higher throughputs, longer filter service life, and reduced specific backflush volume. Nordson Corporation recommends the...

Good sales reports confirm the position of Amut Group as skilled supplier of high-level technology extrusion lines for edgebanding application. “Last year we acquired four new Europe-based customers, one important player in China purchased two lines and other two customers confirmed second line order. To achieve...

Since May 16, 2019, Hilger Gross has taken on the position as Business Development and Area Sales Manager at Sikora in Bremen. In this function, he is in charge of the “plastics” business unit. With Hilger Gross, a highly experienced manager is responsible for the worldwide sale of Sikora’s inspection, sorting and analysis systems for plastic…

Quality and dynamic, personalised, efficient and sustainable production processes are the requirements of smart manufacturing, the ones that today all industrial companies are looking to. In order to meet these needs, B&R delivers high-performance machines, connected and flexible but most importantly adaptive, that can be used securely...

Two new agency agreements were recently signed by Star Automation for the distribution of its products in Lombardy. Covini Rappresentanze was entrusted with the provinces of Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona and Mantua, an area where the agent already boasts an established network of contacts thanks also to the agreements with...

For today’s market of HDPE pipes for pressurized media - increasingly focused on large diameters and wall thicknesses - and profiting from its experience of over 50 years in the development of machines downstream to pipe extrusion lines, Sica has developed the new multi-caterpillar P3500/24Plus haul-off, which is capable of...

The FDU (Flat Die Unit) was originally a research project that was developed with the know-how of Haidlmair Group companies with the support of the toolmaker from the Upper Austrian town of Nussbach. The innovation was presented to the public in 2016 and has been continuously developed ever since. For some time now...

Moog attended the SPS IPC Drives Italia trade show from May 28 to 30 at the exhibition grounds in Parma, Italy, an opportunity for the company to exhibit its “total solution”, combining electric, hydraulic and hybrid technologies, designed to meet all of its customers’ requirements...

The Hot Fill System has been added by Meccanoplastica Ibérica to its entire range of MiPET blow moulding machines for PET preforms. With this option, so far only available on some selected models, the division of the Meccanoplastica Group dedicated to stretch blow moulding technology intends to offer efficient solutions to cover a wide range of...

A new printing machine for plastic bottle caps with a 2-colour dry-offset head by Moss has been recently installed and started up at the premises of a major Ethiopian plastic processor, already supplier of PepsiCo. The machine will decorate the caps of soft drink  bottles. Before this one, Moss had already delivered a single-colour screen printer…