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2023 is a special year for Arburg as the company celebrates its 100th anniversary. Following the celebrations held last February and March at the German headquarters in Lossburg, on May 18 and 19 the Italian branch based in Peschiera Borromeo (near Milan) will open its doors and continue the celebrations...

Ennio Franceschetti, founder, and also honorary president since 2018, of Gefran, has passed away suddenly. The sad news of his death, in the night between 16 and 17 April, was announced by the company in a press release. Ennio Franceschetti founded Gefran in 1969 as a manufacturer of electrical panels for...

Haitian International Germany announced cooperation with the Italian supplier Brixia Plast, that will provide screws and barrels for European plastics processors and strengthen Haitian International Germany service network. The choice in favour of Brixia Plast was made after a careful study of the market among...

Versalis, Eni chemical company and 36% shareholder of Novamont, and Mater-Bi, company controlled by Investitori Associati II and NB Renaissance, shareholder of Novamont remaining 64%, announced exclusive negotiations to finalise the acquisition by Versalis of Novamont entire share package...

The board of directors of PlasticsEurope Italia, the Federchimica sector association that represents plastics manufacturers, unanimously confirmed the president Lorenzo Bottinelli (Basf) and the vice president Franco Meropiali (Versalis). “The reconfirmation honours and encourages me to continue the work begun, with the...

The year-end figures for 2022 are official and the picture painted by the Mecs Statistical Study Center, which published them, is a year worth framing: the plastics and rubber technology industry represented by Amaplast (Italian association of manufacturers of plastics and rubber processing machinery and moulds) closed the year with a turnover of…

The signing of an agency agreement with Astana-base IDS Metra Robotics brings Star Automation Europe to Kazakhstan. Specialising in industrial robotic systems, digital logistics, positioning systems and metrology equipment, IDS Metra Robotics focuses in particular on supporting companies committed to increasing their performance in production in…

Despite an environment characterised by many upheavals, specialty chemicals company Lanxess continues to grow on the Italian market. Sales in 2022 reached 296.4 million euros in Italy increasing by 31.4% compared to previous year's sales of 225.6 million euros.

The Gefran Board of Directors, chaired by Maria Chiara Franceschetti, met in the company’s offices in Provaglio d’Iseo (Brescia, Italy) and approved the company’s draft Financial Statement, Consolidated Financial Statement and Non-Financial Consolidated Statement at 31 December 2022.

Giovanni Rivi, founder of Rivi Magnetics, passed away on 14 February. In 1968 he created the company that bears his name, first operating in the ceramic sector and later, with the entry of the second generation and the expansion of its skills and capabilities, also in other industries, such as plastics, rubber, and sheet metal forming...

The Gefran Board of Directors met in a session chaired by Maria Chiara Franceschetti in the company offices in Provaglio d’Iseo (Brescia, Italy) to examine the company preliminary results as of 31 December 2022. Revenues amounted to 134.4 million euros, an increase of 15.8 million euros (+13.3%) over 2021 revenues of 118.6 million euros...

RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers is participating in Plastindia, scheduled in New Delhi from 1 to 5 February, with its renewed industrial organization, which will soon be able to count on its new production plant now under construction in the city of Halol (State of Gujarat). The revamped organization has been made...

In order to satisfy at the best the growing market demand, Binova, manufacturer of plants for the recycling and the production of compounds with corotating twin-screw extruders operating in Italy and in Europe, has invested in a new operational headquarters of approximately 2,000 square meters in the industrial area of...

As of January 2023, Tria introduces the short work week. For all employees of the company in Cologno Monzese (Milan) the working hours have been reduced from 40 to 36 hours per week without bringing down salaries.  Tria’s decision goes back to the lockdown in spring 2020, when the company introduced...

Founded in 2019 as a holding company for the coordinated management of Plastic Systems, Pet Solutions, Steel Systems, Blauwer, Ergomec and their respective international subsidiaries, Pegaso Industries recorded an aggregate turnover of over 100 million euros in 2022 and substantial orders on the book for 2023. Through...

The majority stake of Ceba Elettromeccanica, a company based in Magnago (Milan) specialising in the development and production of industrial automation, was sold to Union. Through this operation, the company from San Vittore Olona (Milan) further expands its assets, gaining additional skills that will make it possible to...

The full-year forecast developed by the Amaplast-Mecs Statistical Studies Centre highlights overall good performance for the Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery, equipment, and moulds industry. After the rebound recorded in 2021 - a year ending with double-digit growth in all indicators...

To Moretto, a leading company in the production of automated systems for the plastics processing industry, the K 2022 was a successful fair both in terms of visitors number and the great amount of high quality requests received. An event in which Moretto's “green soul” found expression in the development of innovative technologies that...

The "Zero Waste Myssion" strategy of Syncro continues with the entry of SBDry into the group, which thus enriches its family of "Planet Approved" products, technologies aimed at eliminating post-consumer and post-industrial waste. SBDry has over thirty years of experience and as a group have developed multiple and innovative technologies in...

The board of directors of Piovan approved the consolidated financial report as of September 30, 2022: revenues reach 381.7 million euros, up 81% compared to 2021. On a like-for-like basis, excluding the revenues realized by the US group acquired at the beginning of the year and consolidated since...