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The Apinat Bio biodegradable compound by API has been adopted by DLM, a specialist manufacturer of caps for hydrodynamic and hydropneumatic applications, in order to realise a new type of cap for the protection of quick couplings. These caps protect the delicate hydraulic connections in the hydrodynamic...

The first meeting between the organizer of PLAST (Milan, May 5-9, 2015) and the chief managers of Fiera Milano in charge for Expo 2015 (Milan, May 1-October 31, 2015) took place on June 27, 2013, aiming to draft possible synergies between the two events. It was proposed to combine promotional initiatives and concrete benefits for...

Two RollFlex automatic bagmaking machines of the last generation will be displayed in operation by Saldoflex during the K 2013 show (Düsseldorf, October 16-23): starting from a single jumbo roll of tubular film, the R-1350 model produces, on three lanes, bottom-sealed bags which are precut, wrapped in roll and taped; the...

On Saturday June 29 the Leverkusen BayArena - home stadium of the Bayer 04 soccer team - was transformed into a sea of green and blue. The climax of the afternoon event held to celebrate Bayer's foundation 150 years ago was when more than 30,000 employees, family members and retirees formed the largest-ever human Bayer cross...

On July 4-5 and on July 11-13, IMG organizes two open houses at its headquarters in Capriano del Colle (near Brescia, Italy). The first of these events will be devoted to machines for the injection moulding of plastic materials. Visitors will be able to see the new power-assisted Mars II range in operation...

Bespoke design and custom manufacture of blow moulding machines used to make bottles and containers in PET, PP, PLA and other resins is the core business of the Italian company Siapi. In 2013, it launched a new business strategy, namely a more hands-on approach and on-site support in target markets, tangible responses and tailor-made solutions...

The "Brush District" of Castelfranco Emilia (near Modena, Italy) was established about one year ago by Borghi and its partners, Techno Plastic and Unimac, for the creation of brush and broom manufacturing machines. At the K 2103 fair (Düsseldorf, 16-23 October), Borghi...

The Italian company Gefran has announced it has reached an agreement for the 100% takeover of Sensormate, a Swiss company specialised in the design, development and sale of industrial sensors. The agreement has been signed on June 26 by the managing director Alfredo Sala and is expected to be finalized by the end of July...

The board of directors of Novamont has appointed Gunter Pauli chairman of the company by unanimous decision. An entrepreneur, economist and author, the manager is known as the theorist behind the so-called “Blue Economy”, a sustainable economy patterned after the logic of nature, a perfectly integrated system without waste or...

After a still-positive trend in January and February (in the wake of the +5.9% result at the end of 2012), the first quarter of 2013 instead closed with a downturn for Italian exports of plastics and rubber processing machinery, according to the Istat figures processed by Assocomaplast (the Italian trade association belonging to Confindustria,…

The managing director of Plastribution, Mike Boswell, has been elected as the new president of the British Plastics Federation (BPF), the trade association for the UK Plastics Industry, with over 450 members and 1200 affiliated members. He succeeds Philip Watkins who has...

According to PlasticsEurope Deutschland figures, in 2012 German plastics production fell 3.6% from 2011, stopping at 19.5 million tons. The turnover of the industry – which employs some 37200 people – fell 0.8% to 25.1 billion euro. This overall decline is chiefly due to...

The Drive Technologies division of Siemens has launched a new CU250S-2 control unit series with positioning capabilities, for use within Sinamics G120 drive system, commonly employed in many plastics and rubber processing machines. Compared to its predecessors, this control unit supports vector control with encoder feedback. The safety functions…

Traditional bags for storing food in the refrigerator suffer from a classic problem: the tie. Normally, they come in packs that typically contain a roll of bags and a separate set of ties for closing them. However, the ties often get lost or there are not enough for all the bags in the roll. To get around this inconvenience, an Italian maker of...

According to various sources, India’s annual per-capita consumption of plastics has now reached 8 kg, compared to 5 kg five years ago. This is a value still far below that of North American and European countries, and will remain so even in 2020 despite a substantial projected increase to 20 kg. The rapid expansion of various application sectors…

On 20 June, at the Amut factory in Marano Ticino (near Novara), a presentation including start-up was held for a new dry removal system for shrink labels from post-consumer PET bottles, combined with a device for separating the bottles which come to recycling facilities pressed into bales from collection and selection centres...

Smart is the name of the new range of rotational moulding plants by Persico. The news was announced on 18 June during the presentation of the results of the Rotofast project, which saw the involvement of the company based in Nembro (near Bergamo, Italy), along with various Italian and European partners. The first Smart machine will be ready at...

Manufacturer of foaming machines and turnkey plants for the polyurethane industry, Impianti OMS will display at the exhibition K 2013 (Dϋsseldorf, October 16-23) one Ecomaster high pressure foaming machine as well as the Y2K high pressure self-cleaning mixing heads and a series of low pressure mixing heads in particular the last version “Ultimix…

Calysta Energy and NatureWorks have entered into an exclusive, multi-year collaboration to research and develop a practical, world-scale production process for fermenting methane - a potent greenhouse gas (GHG) - into lactic acid, the building block for Ingeo, lactide intermediates and polymers made from renewable materials...

To recover debts of approximately 31 million euro, Montefibre, the historic acrylic fibre company for years in financial distress, will sell 50% of its stake in the joint venture Jimont Acrylic Fiber to its Chinese partner Jilin Chemical Fiber Group. Kpmg estimates the value of the transaction to be between 35 and 44 million euro...