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Together with over 200 guests, Engel opened its much extended and modernised subsidiary in Hannover on 9 and 10 May. The Austrian global market leader in injection moulding machines and integrated injection moulding system solutions invested around 5 million euros. Construction continued into March 2017 and lasted twelve months...

From technology to production, passing through design: all the new technologies of the Italian manufacturing industry at SPS IPC Drives Italia, Parma, from May 23 to 25. Strengthened by a growth forecast of +20% and being considered the reference event for industrial automation in Italy, the trade show is getting ready for its seventh edition...

Luca Bertolotti - formerly global technical manager at Uniloy Milacron - has joined the technical management team of ST Blow Moulding. He will work together with the entire current technical staff to support the continuous growth of the company. Bertolotti boasts 30 years of experience, and started his professional carrier as a...

By the second deadline for stand assignment, more than 800 companies have confirmed their participation in Plast 2018, the international exhibition for the plastics and rubber industries scheduled in Milan from 29 May to 1 June 2018. The organizers have thus recorded a 6% increase in the assigned area with respect to the...

SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers) has appointed Pat Farrey as its new CEO. He will succeed Wim De Vos, who will be stepping down in June. Patrick Farrey, a Chicago based Us National, comes to SPE after a 23-year career in the publication and association management sector. As vice president at Kellen, a Us association management firm...

The 1,400 sqm national pavilion organized at the thirty-first Chinaplas (Guangzhou, May 16-19, 2017) by Assocomaplast - the Italian plastics and rubber processing machinery and moulds manufacturers' association - will be attended by some 50 Italian companies. “Therefore this will be an exhaustive survey of the Made in Italy, which stands among...

The Italian manufacturer of magnetic clamping systems for moulds Rivi Magnetics and the German group Römheld recently joined forces to establish the joint venture company Römheld Rivi. According to the Italian company, Rivi Magnetics believes that this collaboration will improve its aftersales and service activities, two areas that will be...

A leading provider of innovative solutions in the fields of polyolefins and base chemicals, Borealis has announced a net profit of 313 million euros for the first quarter of 2017, compared to 255 million euros in the same quarter of 2016. The strong result was driven by continuing high margins in the polyolefins business and by an...

Weerg.com, the first e-commerce site that offers online CNC machining with free quotes in real time, inserts plastics, enriching its range of materials offered for the realization of parts and components. After the announcement of the internationalization strategy with the launch of the platform in English, the e-shop keeps expanding its horizons…

Basf completed the first quarter of 2017 with a considerable rise in sales and earnings compared to the same quarter of 2016. “BASF has had a good start to the year 2017”, said Kurt Bock, chairman of the board of executive directors of Basf. “The demand trends we observed over the course of 2016 continued in the first quarter of this...

The Shareholders’ Meeting of Gefran was held on April 20. Shareholders approved the company’s 2016 financial statements and appointed the members of the Board of Directors for the period 2017-2019: Ennio Franceschetti, Maria Chiara Franceschetti, Giovanna Franceschetti, Andrea Franceschetti, Alberto Bartoli, Daniele Piccolo, Monica Vecchiati,…

The M&G Chemicals resin-processing plant at Corpus Christi (Texas) is expected to be fully operational by mid-2017, creating up to 250 permanent jobs and manufacturing over a million tons of PET resin a year. “In December the general contractor for the project, Chemtex, hired Bay, to continue work...

Hundreds of international experts from well over 30 different countries gathered at the PVC 2017 triennial conference in Brighton (April 25-27) to discuss how the industry is rapidly adapting to regulatory and market pressures as well as to consumer’s demands. This was also the occasion to unveil European Plasticisers which builds on...

The Engel Group Austria, has appointed Markus Richter as CFO (Chief Financial Officer) with effect from May 1, 2017. He succeeds Klaus Siegmund, who left Engel in March.

Milacron Holdings announced the completion of another significant milestone in its India based operations - the manufacture, sale and delivery of the 12,501st injection moulding machine from the Ahmedabad, India manufacturing facility. On March 22, Milacron’s India manufacturing team presented its 12,501st India manufactured machine...

Preparations for K 2019 have begun. In its first meeting, the exhibitors’ council set the course for the world’s most significant trade fair for the plastics and rubber industries, which will take place from October 16 to 23, 2019 in Düsseldorf. The exhibitors’ council is made up of representatives from the exhibiting industries as well as the…

On April 19, Victrex announced that David Hummel has notified the board of his intention to retire after 24 years as CEO. The board is pleased to announce that Jakob Sigurdsson, the former CEO of Promens, who has more than 20 years' experience in diverse multinational companies, will join the company on September 1, 2017, as CEO designate...

Jindal Films Europe, a global leader in the development and manufacture of specialty films for the flexible packaging and labeling markets, is further expanding its metallizing capabilities at its site in Brindisi, Italy. The new metallizer will add a further 10,000 tons of metallization capacity with start-up expected in the second half of 2017...

Size reduction equipment specialist Rapid Granulator is making one of its biggest investments in decades to bring US production back under its full control. The company says this is a major move in its most important market. Rapid will begin in-house production of its full product range of equipment for granulating...

Ahead of the 2018 deadline, Negri Bossi has already obtained the certification of its quality system in conformity with the new ISO 9001 standards (issued in 2015), adopting a risk-based thinking approach in order to determine the factors that could make the quality control system and processes ineffective and to put in place the...