Marketing

Among more than one thousand exhibitors applied at Plast 2018, the following already confirmed they will join the 3D Print area, devoted to 3D printing and related technologies: Arburg, Elabora, Energy Group, Ermanno Balzi, Galassia 3D, Kreon Italia, Missler, ML Engraving, Proto Labs, Team3D, Tesar, Texer Design and Vega, and several other...

Biesse now offers a complete range of machines that can carry out all machining operations on advanced materials. Selco Plast is a range of single line panel saws that can meet the widest ranging production needs. The Rover Plast machining centres, designed for artisans and medium to small industries thanks to innovative developments...

Global specialty chemical group operating in the production and marketing of performance additives for lubricants, industrial water and process treatment, oil and gas, and plastics, Italmatch Chemicals has acquired Sudamfos Do Brasil, a Brazilian distribution company, specialized in marketing of phosphonates, phosphates and other specialty…

Industrial technology provider to the plastics processing community, Husky announced a strategic win with Pascal Medical, who has purchased and installed twelve Husky systems. Pascal Medical has chosen Husky to be its partner in the creation of an innovative, technologically advanced product complex for the manufacture of...

The Italian sales of plastics and rubber machinery to Mexican processors have been growing steadily and significantly over the past three years: from 85 million euros in 2014, 100 in 2015, to 173 in 2016. This is the best performance ever posted, at least among the top ten Italian export markets for the sector. That’s why Amaplast (Italian trade…

Hennecke is acquiring all shares of OMS Group. The legal closing of the transaction will be complete by the end of December 2017. “With this acquisition, two technological leaders in the polyurethane machinery business are joining forces to open up opportunities for stronger growth”, emphasizes Rolf Trippler, managing director of Hennecke...

The decision was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of Clariant and Huntsman. In a joint statement, Peter R. Huntsman, president and CEO of Huntsman, and Hariolf Kottmann, CEO of Clariant, stated: “We remain convinced that the proposed merger of equals as agreed to on May 21, 2017, would have been in the long-term best interests of…

Materials manufacturer Covestro delivered the strongest quarter in the company’s history in the third quarter of 2017 as the positive trend of the first six months carried on. At 491 million euros, net income was up 89.6% on the prior-year quarter. At the same time, Ebitda was 50.2% higher, and sales rose 16.9% over the same period the previous…

Basf Group recorded significant sales and earnings growth in the third quarter of 2017. “The positive demand development continued in the third quarter of 2017. We achieved solid volume growth, even compared with the strong prior-year quarter,” said Kurt Bock, chairman of the board of executive directors of Basf...

The Mossi Ghisolfi Group announced that the companies: Mossi & Ghisolfi, M&G Finanziaria, Biochemtex, Beta Renewables, Italian Bio Products, IBP Energia, M&G Polimeri, and Acetati Immobiliare have filed, before the Tribunal of Alessandria, an application for admission to the arrangement with creditors procedure (“Concordato Preventivo…

At Fakuma 2017, Plastic Metal exhibited a 280-ton double injection moulding machine in the context of a moulding station for the production of wheels for toys of the brand “Clycformers”. The machine displayed was a HE version that proved the top performances, quality production and energy saving of the hybrid machines...

Size reduction equipment manufacturer Rapid Granulator is making a major investment in machining equipment at its headquarters in Bredaryd, Sweden. Installation of three high-precision, highly automated machining centres, with a total investment of 4.5 million euros, will provide the company with extra capacity to produce core components to...

With an impressive 50 percent increase in the number of exhibitors compared to last year, formnext powered by tct 2017 continues its strong growth trend. The formnext exhibition, which is scheduled to take place for the third time on November 14-17, 2017 in Frankfurt am Main, also sets new standards thanks to its strong international...

Three decades have passed since a far-sighted Austrian engineering company specialising in control electronics and industrial automation systems, decided to invest in Italy. Over these thirty years, what began as a dynamic group of just three people has grown to almost 100 employees, making the Italian market the second largest for B&R...

Headquartered in Reggio Emilia (Italy), Moss specialises in the manufacturing and sale of machines for printing on and decorating plastic containers. The company, has just reached its milestone half century in business. To celebrate this important anniversary, at the start of October the company threw a party which was attended by the owners and…

From October 5 to 7, Ripress, at its facilities in Nova Milanese (Monza Brianza, Italy), presented the GB range of electric injection moulding machines built by South Korean manufacturer Dongshin, for which it is the sole distributor in Italy. These are fully electric machines designed for rapid moulding, mainly of packaging, although they are…

Shortly after cancelling the 2017 SPE Thermoforming Conference in response to the threat posed by hurricane Irma, the Thermoforming Division has announced that it will not reschedule the conference and has outlined refund options for registered attendees and exhibitors. The 2017 conference had been scheduled to begin on...

Gefit has chosen to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary focusing on its main resource - its employees, gathered together with their families during a special evening. Overall, Gefit group counts more than 350 employees, split in the two Italian plants (in Alessandria and Fubine), and in China (Dalian), USA (Detroit), Hungary (Tatabanya) and...

From October 5 to 7, Ripress will be presenting its new DS range of electric machines at its Nova Milanese (in the province of Monza Brianza) headquarters, which were recently extended and equipped with a showroom for carrying out moulding tests. The new machines are the result of Ripress’ collaboration with South Korean manufacturer...

Imports up by 9.1%, exports by 14.6%: these are the results of the first half of 2017 with respect to the same period in 2016 based on the analysis of Istat foreign trade data by the Amaplast Statistical Studies Center. The two trends point to further improvement in the positive balance of trade for the sector...