Technology

To mark World Earth Day - which has been held for the last 50 years in order to promote the ethical right to a healthy, balanced and sustainable environment, with events staged across every corner of the globe - Biesse has published the third edition of the Group's Sustainability Report (the Consolidated Non-Financial Statement...

In the Italian scenario, many companies are converting part of their production into devices to deal with the emergency, continuing to develop projects for the community that can improve situations of coexistence with coronavirus. Negri Bossi, that since April 9, 2020, has been using two injection machines to produce masks for the community…

The Italian manufacturer, Icma San Giorgio, successfully tested a new line for the advanced recycling of PP and HDPE to be installed at a major Italian group active in the industrial components sector. This is the second line ordered by the same customer following the installation, about two years ago, of the first one which has ensured ever...

Bausano has unveiled Bausano-Acty, a new app designed to speed up and simplify remote assistance interventions on its plants. The app was also developed in the light of current regulations introduced to curb the spread of the coronavirus, which restrict travel and on-site interventions, or make these more difficult. Available free of...

The trade fair for plastics, composites and rubber, FIP (France Innovation Plasturgie) initially planned from June 16 to 19, 2020, has been postponed to June 15 to 18, 2021, in Lyon Eurexpo. In this unprecedented context of health crisis and considering the decisions of the French government on the holding of professional events, the organizer...

In 2019, Euromap and the OPC Foundation have established the Joint Working Group "OPC UA Plastics and Rubber Machinery". The aim of the international group is to develop worldwide standardized interfaces for plastics and rubber machines based on OPC UA. The existing Euromap recommendations, Euromap 77, 82.1 and 83...

The shareholders’ meeting of Gefran chaired by Maria Chiara Franceschetti was held on April 28. The meeting approved Gefran financial statements for the year 2019 and resolved to allocate the entire annual profit of 6.2 million euros to retained earnings. The new Board of Directors, which met immediately after the shareholders’ meeting, appointed…

In full conformity with the current safety provisions in the workplace against the coronavirus, Union recently concluded the final tests on an extrusion line for single-layer thermoforming sheets of 100% recycled PET obtained from post-consumer bottle flakes and destined for the production of egg trays...

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Together with business partner Haidlmair, Engel is committed to improving the supply of face masks worldwide. In record time, mould maker Haidlmair developed and implemented a new mould solution for the production of reusable masks, which is now being used by plastics processing companies worldwide. Engel is delivering injection moulding machines…

The standard ISO 20430 has been published on April 22, 2020, at the end of a long activity, which has lasted about seven years, for the study of the standard for the safety of plastics and rubber injection moulding machines, within the ISO/TC 270 Technical Committee, with the active participation of over 30 experts from the national standards...

A plant for the production of coextruded HDPE and PP plates destined for Sapt, a Russian processor based in Nizhni Novgorod, was recently tested at the BG Plast factory in Marnate (near Varese). The manufacturer from Varese is particularly proud to have finished the plant more than a...

Just over a year after the start of the construction works, BMB has finally completed its new production department - the fourth - at its Brescia site. The manufacturer of injection moulding machines will thus present itself in the best way for the imminent start of phase 2 of the Italian government's strategy to combat the coronavirus pandemic...

Frames and straps for Covid-19 face shield are manufactured by Mack on machines from Wittmann Battenfeld. Based in Altenmarkt (Austria), Mack has been supplying high-grade plastic parts and assemblies to a wide range of different industries for decades. One of the company’s latest products is a Covid-19 face shield which protects the eyes, nose…

Romain Reyre and Arthur van Dijk are the new managing directors in injection moulding machine manufacturer Engel international sales network. Romain Reyre will be in charge of the sales and service subsidiary in France, while Arthur van Dijk is joining Engel Benelux...

These days, nothing is the same as it was a few weeks ago. And yet the coronavirus crisis has made one thing very clear: companies in Germany and Europe are showing solidarity to help quickly. On the initiative of the German plastics machinery manufacturer Arburg, the Swiss specialty chemicals group Ems-Chemie, the German safety eyewear...

An Italian manufacturer of auxiliary equipment for the size reduction and treatment of plastics, CMG (headquartered in Cento di Budrio, Bologna, Italy) recently joined the Circular Plastics Alliance. This is an initiative launched by the plastics industry under the European Strategy for Plastics 2018 aimed at...

The corona crisis has a firm grip on Europe and much of the world. Increasing numbers of infected people and reports of new deaths have become almost a part of the daily routine. Critically, it is repeatedly reported that in hospitals and similar facilities, the protective equipment required is becoming increasingly scarce, and nothing more so…

Since April 9, Negri Bossi, located in Cologno Monzese (Milan, Italy), has been using two injection moulding machines to produce masks to counter the spread of Covid‐19, the most serious pandemic of this beginning of the century. The idea started from the moulding manager, Ruggero Galbusera, and the operations director, Maurizio Seregni...

The Biesse Group continues to provide tangible support for the local fight against Covid-19. Following a donation for the purchase of technology to help the most critical patients and a fundraising campaign, the manufacturing departments are also being recruited, specifically the unit that handles additive manufacturing...