Marketing

  • 13 March 2013

    Butterflies in the mould

    Negri Bossi's presence at Eurostampi, a tradeshow within Mecspe, is focussed on the Eleos 80 injection moulding machine, deriving from the EOS series but with electrically driven plastification, injection, and mould opening/closing. The clamping unit has a dual-platen configuration...
  • 13 March 2013

    Stretchable batteries

    An important trend in electronics involves the development of materials, mechanical designs and manufacturing strategies that enable the use of unconventional substrates, such as polymer films, metal foils, paper sheets or rubber slabs. The last possibility is particularly challenging because the...
  • 12 March 2013

    Live "bubble"

    Until March 15 a new multilayer blown film production line featuring a width of 2200 mm and a net output rate of 750 kg/hour will be on display at the Dolci Extrusion factory in Biassono (Monza Brianza, Italy). The line is equipped with three extruders, one with a diameter of 105 mm and the...
  • 11 March 2013

    Certified pressure transducer

    Reliability and sturdiness are the characteristics which have allowed the KS industrial pressure transducer by Gefran to obtain the Sil2 certificate from TÜV Rheinland. Based on the technology of the thick film deposited on steel, it is a simple and compact device that withstands impact and vibration...
  • 07 March 2013

    Yes to triangle

    Working with the Société des Eaux d'Aix-les-Bains (SEAB) in France, Sidel, a global provider of PET machinery and solutions for liquid packaging, designed and produced a stylish new triangular bottle in PET for SEAB's still water product. It is currently the only PET triangular bottle in...
  • 07 March 2013

    Multitech controls and actuators

    MC4-Motion Control For, an itinerant exhibition/conference devoted to motion control products and technologies, held in Bologna on March 5, provided Bosch Rexroth, as a guest at the sercos consortium stand, with an opportunity to unveil its most recent developments in the field of automation...
  • 06 March 2013

    Thirty years of plastic watches

    March 1, 1983 is the day on which Swatch unveiled, in Zurich, the first 12 models of its plastic watches. The idea did not seem particularly promising; indeed, in 1982, SMH (a Swiss company specialising in microelectronics) had unveiled, in the US, a prototype of...
  • 06 March 2013

    European conference on the Italian bioeconomy

    On March 6, the European Parliament hosts a conference entitled "BioPlastics: A case study of Bioeconomy in Italy in the light of Horizon 2020", organised by the Kyoto Club with the endorsement of the Italian Environment Ministry. The purpose of the event is to highlight the...
  • 06 March 2013

    The outlook for the pipe market

    The value of the global pipe market could reach 80 billion dollars by 2019. This is what has emerged from a recent study conducted by Ceresana and it is no surprise that the greatest growth is expected to be recorded in the markets of the Asia-Pacific region, which are expected...
  • 06 March 2013

    Green Box opens in France

    On March 1, a new commercial subsidiary of Green Box opened in St. Bonnet de Mure, near Lyons in France. The new branch has the task of expanding the activities of the Italian manufacturer in France, offering sales and after-sale services locally. To this end, it relies...
  • 05 March 2013

    Borealis acquires DEXPlastomers

    Borealis, a leading provider of polyolefins, base chemicals and fertilizers, announced the acquisition of DEXPlastomers in Geleen (The Netherlands) from DSM Nederland and ExxonMobil Benelux. Until March 4, DEXPlastomers was a 50/50 joint venture ultimately owned...
  • 05 March 2013

    Satisfaction for the Icma open house

    Held on February 19 and 20, Icma San Giorgio open house was a success. The event dedicated to the advanced recycling of heterogeneous plastic scrap also saw the participation of the Italian company, Filtec, and Germany's Ettlinger as technological partners. Leading technical publications...
  • 04 March 2013

    Rotary blow moulding machine with 24 stations

    From March 4 to 12, Techne Graham Packaging Company Italia has organized a showroom at its headquarters in Castel Guelfo, near Bologna (Italy), to present its mechatronic rotary extrusion and blow moulding machine Rotax. RX24 is a high capability machine in terms of...
  • 01 March 2013

    Machine purging compounds

    The recent efforts of Ultra System have been focused entirely on the development of "purging compounds" for specific application sectors. Machine cleaning is an important part of the production cycle for moulders and if the cleaning process is carried out correctly it eliminates...
  • 27 February 2013

    New silicones for gaskets

    The new Fermasil 91 and Fermasil 93 two-component silicones produced by Sonderhoff are characterised by cross-linking times of just a few minutes at ambient temperature. Both products are dry to the touch after 10-12 minutes, without need for a furnace, thereby saving on both process time and energy costs...
  • 27 February 2013

    Rendezvous in Mexico City

    The eighteenth edition of Plastimagen - the main fair for the plastics and rubber industry in Central America - is going to take place in Mexico City, from March 12 to 15, 2013. More than 30 Italian companies will showcase through the national pavilion coordinated by Assocomaplast, the Italian plastics and rubber processing...
  • 27 February 2013

    Coextrusion without gearboxes

    The extrusion and coextrusion lines manufactured by S Plastic Machinery for the sheet and plate production are characterised, in particular, by the use of high torque motors without gearboxes. This solution, which makes it possible to offer technologically advanced systems at competitive prices, first of all translates into a simplified...
  • 27 February 2013

    Multiple "V" cuts

    To perform precision “V” cuts on PVC coated panels, equipment maker Zaffaroni offers the SMT work station, available in widths from 2500 to 4000 mm and with special tools dedicated for different final applications (hi-fi speakers, furniture, interior decoration products, etc.) The machine is equipped with a manual system for...
  • 27 February 2013

    M&G picks Amut for bottle to bottle recycling

    The Mossi & Ghisolfi group has chosen Italian equipment-maker Amut to supply a recycling plant for postconsumer PET bottles at Poços de Caldas in the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil. The plant will come into operation in 2013 and will produce high quality flakes for the bottle-to-bottle process. This is the third major recycling line...
  • 27 February 2013

    Relaunch of BM Biraghi in Europe

    The BM Biraghi injection moulding machines are to be relaunched by Negri Bossi also in Europe, as the entry level product of its range of presses. Contrary to what had been initially announced, Silvio Tavecchia, general manager of the company based in Cologno Monzese, in the outskirts of Milan, told Macplas on 21 February that...