Marketing

  • 24 November 2010

    Stars and stripesmachinery

    US foreign trade in plastics and rubber machinery seems to be consolidating its recovery. A downtrend was recorded for both imports and exports in...
  • 24 November 2010

    Open houseon two platens

    Italtech has scheduled an open house for 16-18 December at its headquarters in Mazzano (Brescia, Italy) to introduce the latest developments of its injection machines...
  • 24 November 2010

    Controlled infraredheating

    Gefran has developed the new GFX4-IR power controller with specific functions for IR heaters of any wavelength allowing for a broader range of industrial applications...
  • 23 November 2010

    Trebled polyamide

    Arkema has announced a threefold production increase at its Changshu plant near Shanghai by 2013. These new polyamide capacities...
  • 22 November 2010

    Good news forreinforced plastics

    The “sustainability“ work group of the German Federation of Reinforced Plastics (AVK) has recently published a report regarding the sustainability of fibre-reinforced plastics...
  • 19 November 2010

    Downstream integrationsin China

    Bayer MaterialScience has announced plans to invest 110 million euro to build five new downstream facilities in China...
  • 17 November 2010

    Massive Guangdong

    The 12th edition of China Dongguan International Mould & Metalworking Plastics, Packaging & Rubber Exhibition (DPM), will take place in Guangdong...
  • 17 November 2010

    Finnish news

    The Finnish plastics processing industry withstood the crisis better than its counterparts in other countries. The 600 companies in the Finnish industry...
  • 17 November 2010

    Brazilian composites

    The steady growth of the Brazilian economy in general, reflected in the plastics sector, is also confirmed by the rising trend in consumption of composites...
  • 17 November 2010

    Positive trend

    January-July data for Italian imports and exports of plastics and rubber machinery evidenced a slackening recovery, although the performance is better...
  • 17 November 2010

    Recycling bioplastics

    The Mini60 extrusion line developed by Tecnova for the recycling of biodegradable plastics scrap was introduced at K 2010. According to the...
  • 17 November 2010

    Renewed image

    The economic crisis of the last two years seems to be overcome and the companies are reorganizing to be ready to exploit the potential of a completely...
  • 12 November 2010

    American pipesgrow too

    Impending growth and multiple key market developments were among high notes providing positive benchmarks for the Plastics Pipe Institute ...
  • 10 November 2010

    Joint-venturefor cellulose

    Eastman announced on November 8 a joint venture with the Italian company Mazzucchelli 1849 for the manufacture of compounded cellulose diacetate (CDA) in Shenzhen, China...
  • 10 November 2010

    Recyclers meet

    The annual meeting organized by EuPR (European Plastics Recyclers) will be held in Berlin on November 18 and 19, 2010. The first day will be devoted to working groups composed of...
  • 10 November 2010

    New international cooperation

    MACPLAS has recently signed a new agreement with the organizer of the trade show Plast Eurasia, scheduled in Istanbul December 2-5...
  • 10 November 2010

    Smart sensor

    A new version of the Impact melt pressure sensor has been developed by Gefran to comply with international extruder safety standards. The new version features “smart” electronics for...
  • 10 November 2010

    Curtain fallson K 2010

    According to the figures released by Messe Düsseldorf during the final press conference held on the closing day of K 2010 (November 3), 220,000 visits...
  • 03 November 2010

    Wood and plasticsin China

    The Chinese market - among other things - now holds a leading position also in the production of handmade articles based on wood-plastic composites...
  • 03 November 2010

    A century in Argentina

    On the occasion of Pirelli’s one hundredth anniversary in Argentina, Marco Tronchetti Provera was interviewed by the newspaper Financial Times...