Marketing

  • 04 July 2012

    Sustainable footwear

    Gucci, too, has opted for biopolymers as a responsible way of fulfilling the wishes of the modern consumer. Its new line of men’s and women’s footwear called Sustainable Soles...
  • 04 July 2012

    Electroconductiveextruded yarn

    The processing of special compounds developed by Lati with microextrusion systems recently developed by Gimac has resulted in the creation of an extruded yarn...
  • 04 July 2012

    Vacuum, pressureand trimming

    For the production of cells and counterdoors for refrigerators, QS Group has developed the new VPF-T (Vacuum-Pressure and Trimming) range of thermoforming...
  • 04 July 2012

    Cooling ring

    For blown film extrusion lines Syncro proposes the Flyer cooling ring with automatic profile control. It is mounted above the extrusion head and can be adjusted in...
  • 04 July 2012

    Tailored recycling

    The GM65 Compac pilot line developed by Gamma Meccanica, which introduced it at PLAST 2012, has been designed for carrying out tests on materials supplied...
  • 27 June 2012

    Enjoy your meal!

    No-limits-to-innovation department: a researcher at the University of Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts is developing edible packaging, dubbed WikiCells, composed...
  • 27 June 2012

    Biodegradable toothbrush

    The first biodegradable toothbrush is called Monte-Bianco Nature. Equipped with a replaceable head with natural bristles, the handle is made of Apinat, a 100% biodegradable...
  • 27 June 2012

    Durable coatings

    Soon after moving to their new facility in Origgio (Varese), Impreglon Italia has unveiled their new series of Tempcoat XP fluoropolymer coatings that improve the life, scratch...
  • 27 June 2012

    Echoes fromBuenos Aires

    The fourteenth edition of the Argenplas fair took place June 18-22 at the Costa Salguero fairgrounds in Buenos Aires. As in 2010 the owner, Alcantara Machado, entrusted...
  • 27 June 2012

    Interest growsin Saferubber

    The meeting marking the end of the second year of the three-year European Saferubber project took place last 21 June at Norner (Norwegian polymer research institute). The...
  • 27 June 2012

    Stronger market position in Turkey

    A year and a half after the acquisition of FDM, a German company specialized in dosing technologies for extrusion, Piovan continues its strategy of strengthening...
  • 27 June 2012

    Wood-like laminates

    In production of wood-like laminates for floorings, the current printing technique makes it possible to obtain very high resemblance to real wood. Rodolfo Comerio has developed...
  • 27 June 2012

    Change at the topof Star Automation

    New CEO for Star Automation Europe: Kanji Yago has replaced Susumu Kuzuya. After almost ten years at the helm of the company, Kuzuya will take up new roles at the...
  • 27 June 2012

    Panels in Saudi Arabia

    The Saudi converter Hesco has commissioned First - a joint venture between the Italian companies OMS Group and CBM Machines - to build a plant for the production of...
  • 27 June 2012

    Green mobility

    A seminar organized by Persico and Total took place at the Italian company’s headquarters in Nembro (Bergamo, Italy) on June 20 to present to processors and the trade press a...
  • 20 June 2012

    First Quarter still Positive

    According to ISTAT (the Italian institute for statistics) data on Italy’s imports and exports of plastics and rubber processing machinery in the first quarter...
  • 20 June 2012

    Meeting in Buenos Aires

    The fourteenth Argenplas fair is being attended by around a dozen Italian companies, within a national collective participation coordinated...
  • 20 June 2012

    New Centre and Joint-venture

    On June 12 A. Schulman opened in Kerpen (Germany) the Academy centre for the development of new engineering polymers...