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A study on world rubber industry trends in 2014, recently published by the International Rubber Study Group, shows that production exceeded 28.7 million tons, recording an overall increase of 3.7% compared with 2013. As for consumption, 2014 saw an overall increase of 7.7% compared with 2013, reaching just over 28.9 million tons...

Mumbai will shortly be hosting two conferences organised by ElitePlus, one to be held on August 20-21 and the other on September 15-16. These events will deal, respectively, with injection blow moulding of containers and closures in PET, and with film and flexible packaging extrusion, and they will look at all the various aspects of...

Plastic will be the material of the twenty first century. This was the declaration made by Cipad (Council of International Plastics Associations Directors) during its annual meeting, which took place in London on June 22-23. The directors of the plastics sector associations who are members of Cipad examined the factors that

The 2015 general assembly of Euromap is due to take place on September 11 at the Danieli Hotel in Venice. Euromap is the association of European manufacturers of plastics and rubber machinery and equipment, and its meeting is expected to focus on the business opportunities for European machinery manufacturers offered by...

A company of the Piovan group and a worldwide supplier of material handling solutions for the extrusion process, FDM announced the move to a new production facility located in Troisdorf - North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - inside the industrial park called “Airport Gewerbepark Junkersring”...

Jindal Films Europe announces a strategic investment in energy efficiency and environmental sustainability capability at its Brindisi plant in Southern Italy. Combined Heat and Power (CHP), or co‐generation as it is also known, is the process of capturing and using the waste heat produced by the generation of...

On July 2, 2015, Assocomaplast Executive Committee appointed for the period 2015-2017 the association Board of Directors as follows: Enzo Balzanelli (FB Balzanelli Avvolgitori); Massimo Margaglione (Gefit); Pierino Persico (Persico). On the same day, these entrepreneurs were appointed also as Board of the association...

The managing director of Frigosystem, Alessandro Grassi, is the new president of Assocomaplast, the Italian trade association belonging to Confindustria, which groups together over 160 manufacturers of machinery, moulds and equipment for plastics and rubber. He has been elected for the period 2015-2017...

A compounder based in the Marche region of Italy, Fainplast closed the year 2014 with a turnover approaching 100 million euros, a rise of 4% as compared to the previous year, and with an increase in production capacity of over 13%. Exports have accounted for 55% of the turnover, highlighting the fact that a high degree of...

On June 15 the supervisory board of KraussMaffei group appointed Frank Stieler as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).  Effective July 27, Stieler will succeed Jan Siebert, who has led the KraussMaffei Group since January 2012, and who is leaving at his own request. “Stieler is a charismatic leader with an outstanding track record of more than twenty…

From May 20 to 23, 2015, in the 26 halls of China Import & Export Fair Complex in Guangzhou, the twenty-ninth international Chinaplas was held, organised by Adsale, supported over the past two decades by Euromap (the European association for plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers) - represented for the opening ceremony by president…

In 2015 Moretto is celebrating 35 years in the business, years full of passion for plastics and challenges accepted and successfully overcome. The anniversary was celebrated in part to mark the recent Plast fair in Milan, with a spectacular acrobatic dance at the company's stand and with an evening dedicated to clients and suppliers. A success…

A class of students specialising in “family business” at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business - Northeastern University, Boston were recently hosted at MB Conveyors, the Vicenza-based producer of conveyor belts that are also used in the manufacture of plastics. The visit took place on May 19 as part of an educational visit to Italy by a group of…

As of June 1, 2015, Dover Pump Solutions Group, Oberglatt, Switzerland, was liquidated and with immediate effect will be trading as Maag Pump Systems, Oberglatt, Switzerland, once again. At the same time the merger between Maag Pump Systems and Automatik Plastics Machinery in Germany has been completed. With immediate effect...

May 18, 2015, marked yet another milestone in Haitian International‘s and its premium brand Zhafir story: Zhafir Plastics Machinery opened the first section of its new Chinese plant in Chunxiao, a suburb of Ningbo. The “Grand Opening” was attended by more than 650 guests. There were systems partners, sales partners and numerous...

To give more visibility to exhibitors and for those who missed the chance to visit Plast 2015, a “Virtual Tour” of the 6 halls of Fiera Milano occupied by the exhibition (which took place on May 5-9) is now online. Click on the link...

On June 1 Bayer has announced that the new name of its MaterialScience business will be Covestro. The plan for Bayer MaterialScience to become a separate company was announced in September 2014 but it will be effective on September 1, 2015. Bayer intends to float Covestro on the stock market by mid-2016 at the latest...

The inauguration of the permanent exhibition of the Cannon-Sandretto private collection and the re-opening of the museum of plastics run by these two companies are two events both due to take place on June 7 in Pont Canavese (Turin, Italy). The Cannon building in Pont Canavese has been renovated and its rooms are now ready to host, once again...

The Austrian manufacturer Erema has achieved a record turnover figure of 115 million euros for the 2014-2015 fiscal year. This corresponds to a 21% and 20 million euro plus in turnover compared to the previous year. The turnover of the Erema Group as a whole with 480 employees in total (Erema, Pure Loop and 3S) rose to...

The further increasing demand for Wittmann robots and automation solutions has led the company to implement a two-stage plan for further production capacity. The first stage of development was completed successfully in mid-May 2015. The move now enables an overall production output of 4,200 robots a year. In the course of this...