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Plast 2018 is taking place at the Fiera Milano facilities in Rho-Pero (Milan) from Tuesday, May 29, to Friday, June 1, 2018. Organized by Promaplast, Plast is the preeminent European event this year for the plastics and rubber industry, embracing the entire production chain from raw materials to semi-finished and finished products, from...

Just less than one week to the beginning of Plast 2018, the most important European trade fair for the plastic sector in 2018. Do you want to meet the PlasticFinder team? You'll find us at Pavillion 15 Booth B11. Plast is a unique opportunity to meet our staff, share the new features on our platform and buy or sell directly with a single click...

The 2017 Financial Statement for Sacmi Imola shows higher sales and an increased gross operating margin with respect to 2016. Like its parent company, the Group as a whole closed the year by improving on the previous year’s performance, with sales touching 1.434 billion euros; the net consolidated result was over 35 million, also on the rise...

A highly successful Chinaplas 2018 concluded its four-day show on April 27, 2018, in Shanghai. The rainy weather prior to the opening of the 32nd edition of show did not hamper the enthusiasm of visitors, who were inspired by smart manufacturing, innovative materials, and green solutions. A total of 180,701 professional buyers from all over the...

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag has set up a new subsidiary to service customers in the Italian market, effective May 1, 2018. As part of this measure, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Italia will take over the tried-and-trusted workforce from its former Italian representation, Macam and employ additional personnel for sales, application technology and after-sales…

A new marketing and communication specialist just joined Colines. Giuseppe Maddaluno has a specific communication experience with more than ten years of journalism activity both for local and national newspapers, radio and TV. He joined the professional register for journalists in 2010 and got experience also as a...

An important objective has just been reached by Italian company Frigel Firenze, a leader in the field of industrial refrigeration systems: with a view to creating an increasingly important point of reference in the global industrial refrigeration sector, it has bought out the company Green Box, of Padua (Italy). The operation involved 100% of the…

The leading provider of innovative solutions in the fields of polyolefins and base chemicals, Borealis, announces a net profit of 240 million euros for the first quarter of 2018, compared to 313 million euros in the same quarter of 2017. The strong result came in despite a full Borouge 2 turnaround and was driven by lower but still healthy…

At Arburg, things are progressing at a fast pace: the Training Centre, for which the foundations began getting laid in 2017, is growing upwards on schedule. In Assembly Hall 22, opened in 2016, machines now stand in serried ranks and now Arburg is already announcing the start of its next big construction project. The construction of the new...

“We were pleased with the development in the first quarter of 2018, we have had a good start to the year”, said Kurt Bock, chairman of the board of executive directors of Basf, commenting on the year-on-year rise in first-quarter earnings during the Basf annual shareholders’ meeting at Congress Center Rosengarten in Mannheim, Germany. At 2.5...

Recently 2-ethylhexanoic acid (2-EHA) has shown no adverse effects regarding reproduction at the highest dose tested in a study executed at the request of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). Because of earlier suspicions on reproductive toxicity, ECHA had 2-EHA listed in the Community Rolling Action Plan (CoRAP) as CMR...

After fifteen months of construction, the new headquarters of Hekuma in Hallbergmoos, Germany, was completed on schedule - an important milestone in the history of the company. At the beginning of 2018 the time was right: Hekuma moved in its new headquarters and thus set an important milestone in the history of the company. The...

Marangoni, a global leader in the tyre retreading industry and in the development of technologies and machinery for the production of new and retreaded tyres, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement with Directa Plus, a leading producer and supplier of graphene-based products for use in consumer and...

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The Supervisory Board of Covestro has agreed on an amicable retirement of Patrick Thomas’ tenure as chief executive officer (CEO) effective May 31, 2018, at the meeting of April 13. Patrick Thomas contract as CEO would have originally ended on September 30, 2018. Already in May 2017, Patrick Thomas had informed the Supervisory Board that he...

With Don Ivey, a highly experienced injection moulding expert is taking the helm of Wintec sales in North America. This position was newly created after the injection moulding machine builder, part of the Engel Group and domiciled in Changzhou, China, decided to expand its sales into selected American markets as of May 2018. As the Director of…

After more than 11 years as CEO of Borealis, Mark Garrett has decided to leave the company to pursue a new career path. The supervisory board of Borealis regrets but accepts this decision, recognising Garrett’s outstanding contribution to Borealis’ success. Executive vice president Alfred Stern, currently responsible for the Polyolefin Business…

The Italian collective at the thirty-second Chinaplas (Shanghai, April 24-27), organized by

2017 turned out to be a record year for Basf Italia, as revealed by the financial results published by the company: its sales increased by 13% to 1,930 million euros (up from the 1,709 million recorded in 2016), and it thus recorded double-digit growth for the period. These great results were a result of significant growth in sales across most of…

For the fiscal year of 2017, Sumitomo (SHI) Demag with headquarters in Schwaig and production sites in Schwaig, Wiehe (Germany) and Ningbo (China) again reports a significant increase of sales and incoming orders. The successful launch of the specialist’s new generation of IntElect all-electric injection moulding machines and the positive...