Marketing

JEC World 2019 closed successfully on March 14, after three intense days of innovation, networking and knowledge sharing. "With more than 112 participating countries and 27 national pavilions, JEC World - the place where the world of Composites meets - gathered the key players of the industry and their representatives, as illustrated by...

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess closed its fiscal year with a strong result that bodes well for the year that has just begun. In 2018, group sales rose by 10.2% from 6.53 billion euros in the previous year to 7.197 billion euros. At 431 million euros, net income was considerably higher than the previous year’s figure of 87 million euros. This…

One of the world's largest manufacturers of plastic injection moulding machines, Haitian International Holdings, announced its annual results as at December 31, 2018. In the fiscal year of 2018, the company’s sales reached 10.85 billion RMB (more than 1,43 billion euros), representing a sales increase of 6.5% compared to 2017. Despite the...

The Padua-based manufacturer, Moretto, is one of the 500 companies included in the “Champions 2019” list. The entries were selected by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which analysed the performance of the Italian SMEs that recorded a turnover between 20 and 120 million euros. The evaluation involved the financial statements of the...

Innovation is never the result of chance. It is, first of all, the result of passion, study and work. But we must not forget a key factor such as "human contamination”: only by mixing knowledge and ideas of different people, maintaining an open and flexible attitude, it is possible to create new projects...

Since March 1, Ute Panzer is the new Vice President Marketing and Communication at the international Engel Group, headquartered in Schwertberg, Austria. She is responsible for all marketing measures, campaigns, trade fair appearances and worldwide communications, and reports to Christoph Steger, CSO of the Engel Group...

At Mecspe 2019, to be held in Parma (Italy) from March 28 to 30, Kraiburg TPE will present itself with its market-oriented portfolio of thermoplastic elastomers and a comprehensive service package. Kraiburg TPE’s trade-fair appearance will focus on the new TEH technology platform developed for automotive and industrial applications. The...

The Italian trade association, bringing together about 170 manufacturers of plastics and rubber processing machinery, equipment and moulds, Amaplast, through its Statistical Studies Centre, has completed its year-end balance sheet for 2018, incorporating foreign trade data from Istat (Italian institute of statistics)...

Starting from April 1, Stefano Venturelli will replace Luciano Anceschi as CEO of the Tria Group in a transition that has been planned for months in agreement with ownership. After opening the Board of Directors to external members in 2016, the company further develops its leadership with this appointment. Continuing growth in volumes and the...

The EuPC Senior Executive Forum (SEF) 2019 is being held in Brussels on March 13. SEF was founded in 2006 to advise the EuPC Steering Committee and to provide strategic guidance on the plastics converting industry's most important developments. The forum is composed of industry leaders and senior-level executives from the top...

The leading industrial technology company serving the plastics processing industry, Milacron announced that Michael “Mac” Jones has been promoted to the position of President, Milacron Advanced Plastics Processing Technologies (APPT) Americas and Europe businesses...

The board of directors of DowDuPont has approved the previously announced separation of DowDuPont’s Materials Science Division, which will become the new Dow on April 1. The announcement marks a major milestone toward successfully separating Dow on April 1, to be followed by the expected separation of Corteva Agriscience from the new...

Global sales increased by 13% to 294.9 million euros with incoming orders rising by 6% to 314.2 million euros. The demand for IntElect all-electric injection moulding machines and El-Exis packaging machines was the main contributor to this major sales increase. These are the results of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag for the fiscal year of 2018...

Technological innovation, on one hand, favours the acceleration of modern development as well as changes in various markets, while on the other, is driven by the latter two. Chinaplas, being a prominent platform for innovative technology and communication, is highly responsive to the needs and the trends, and always brings in new elements...

The Brussels based association representing the entire PET value chain in Europe, Petcore Europe, increases its competence by welcoming twelve new members in 2019: Bandera, IFP Energies Nouvelles, Point Plastic, AFA Dispensing, Remondis PET Recycling, Cumapol, Retal Industries, PepsiCo, Mitsubishi Polyester Films, Suntory, Digimarc and Finat...

Basf generated sales of 62.7 billion euros last year. This represents an increase of 2% compared with the previous year. Income from operations (Ebit) before special items declined to 6.4 billion euros, compared with 7.6 billion euros in the previous year. This was mainly attributable to the Chemicals segment, which accounted for around two-thirds…

Covestro generated strong results in 2018 while challenges mounted throughout the year. Core volumes increased 1.6%, and Group sales rose by 3.4% to 14.6 billion euros. After a weaker fourth quarter, Covestro could not achieve earnings at the previous year’s levels, which were marked by an outstanding positive business environment. Despite the…

Renato Moretto, president and CEO of Moretto, gave 100,000 euros to support people and lands of Veneto affected by the exceptional gales, which took place during last autumn. A cheque for this sum was delivered into the hands of the President of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, on February 25, at the company’s headquarters in Massanzago, near Padua...

After the excellent results of the past edition, the Plast (the International exhibition for plastics and rubber industries) organizing secretariat announces the next three-year appointment for the event, which will take place from Tuesday, May 4 to Friday, May 7, 2021 at the Fiera Milano Rho-Pero fairgrounds, again together with The Innovation…

An agreement signed by Lehvoss Italia and Birla Carbon for the distribution, in the Italian market, of the products from Birla Carbon came into effect on January 1, 2019. With a turnover of 44.3 billion euros Birla Carbon, a company of the Indian group Aditya Birla, is one of the world’s largest manufacturers and suppliers of carbon black...