Marketing

  • 27 March 2013

    Open house for three on PET food packaging

    The BG Plast plant in Marnate (near Varese, Italy) was the venue for a joint open house on March 25-27 with the German company Gneuss and the Swiss company WM Wrapping Machinery...
  • 26 March 2013

    Export drives improvements

    According to the report on the sector’s performance in 2012 issued by Assocomaplast (the Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery and moulds manufacturers’ association), the production...
  • 26 March 2013

    Hybrid energy savings

    The IT range of injection moulding machines from Ripress was recently extended with the addition of a new model with a 140-ton clamping force. This joins the existing models which...
  • 25 March 2013

    Die heads for large diameter pipes

    The Venus 3000 and Venus 2000 die heads were developed by Tecnomatic for the high-performance extrusion of pipes with diameter from 710 to 2600 mm. The line configuration...
  • 22 March 2013

    Customised flexographic printing

    Two flexographic printing machines, the 8-colour (gearless) Flexo Marte 1200 and the 6-colour (geared) Flexo Saturno 1200, will be exhibited by BFM at its headquarters in Solbiate Olona...
  • 22 March 2013

    Roundtable on the market surveillance

    On March 20, 2013 in Brussels at the European Parliament the associations Cece, Cecimo, Cema, Fem and Euromap (to which Assocomaplast belongs), representing the...
  • 20 March 2013

    A boost from the automotive industry

    According to a recent study by Research and Markets of Dublin, global demand for plastic components for the automotive industry could amount to 18.9 billion dollars by the end of 2016...
  • 20 March 2013

    The outlook for PS and EPS

    According to a recent survey conducted by British business intelligence provider GBI Research, global demand for PS and EPS is set to increase at an annual rate of 4.7% over the next few...
  • 20 March 2013

    A superhero in search of colour

    To promote the new colour collection developed by its in-house Design Center, Grafe, whose product range includes masterbatches, additives and functional compounds, has created a...
  • 20 March 2013

    Energy-saving tyres thanks to silica

    An investment of 75 million euro has been planned by Solvay for the construction of a new highly dispersible silica (HDS) production plant which will also produce Zeosil Premium, used to...
  • 20 March 2013

    All-Italian partnership for synthetic leathers

    A producer of TPE- and TPU-based compounds based in Vicenza (Italy), API operates in the synthetic leather market with its Apilon 52 C range of aromatic thermoplastic polyurethanes for...
  • 19 March 2013

    Heterogeneous plastic scrap regeneration

    At its San Vittore Olona facilities near Milan, Union is currently presenting a new line for the recycling of heterogeneous plastic waste. The development of this line stemmed from the...
  • 19 March 2013

    Granulators to meet every need

    Manufactured by Engin Plast the Trix granulators (the name is an acronym of Thermoforming Recycling Injection moulding and eXtrusion) has recently been extended to make it even...
  • 18 March 2013

    From gas to elastomers

    Calling it a first for the thermoplastic elastomers (TPE) sector, Kraiburg TPE is preparing for the commercial production of elastomers using Shell Risella X, a process oil made with Shell's...
  • 18 March 2013

    A body for two

    The union of the expertise of Future Fibres and Persico in the field of composite fibres and the manufacturing of precision equipment has led to the development of a composite material...
  • 15 March 2013

    A tail for Winter

    Winter is a bottlenose dolphin at the Marine Aquarium in Clearwater, Florida, widely known for having a prosthetic tail. Winter was found off the coast of Florida in December 2005...
  • 15 March 2013

    PolyOne completes Spartech acquisition

    On March 12, 2013 the shareholders of Spartech (a producer of custom plastic sheet and rollstock and packaging solutions) approved the agreement for the acquisition of the company by PolyOne...
  • 13 March 2013

    Italian technology in India

    Promoted by Assocomaplast (the Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery and moulds manufacturers' association) and Ucimu (the Italian machine tool, robots, automation systems and ancillary products manufacturers' association), the Italian Technology Center (ITC) was...
  • 13 March 2013

    Softer and Invista agree for Mexico

    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...