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The XForm range of two-platen machines for PET preforms, resulting from the cooperation between Sipa and Athena Automation started at the end of 2012, will be enriched with the 300-t version. A 150-tons version of the XForm is already available and the two companies are now preparing for the launch...

At the recent K 2013 fair in Düsseldorf, the Irish company, TSM, officially announced the establishment of TSM Italia, as well as confirming its current partnership with Leone Italia, which has been for some time the Italian agent for the gravimetric blending systems built by TSM. Thanks to the success of...

According to Uniloy, modern and efficient machines with many cavities are an effective solution to reduce the cost of the blow moulded items. This manufacturing philosophy is well recognized in the consumer packaging industry, where the monthly production often amounts to some millions of...

The new TeKo 0 is a very compact, portable and highly efficient temperature controller developed by Moretto for the micro injection moulding sector. It is a water temperature controller for indirect exchange cooling, provided with low specific load reinforced heaters and high...

The Chinese plastic converting industry showed a 5% growth during the first nine months of 2013, versus the 8.9% increase recorded in 2012, the latter being in turn much far from the +20% reached in 2011 and in the previous years, which characterised by a real boom in the local industry. This is what...

An important group operating in the field of residential, commercial and sport floorings with 15 manufacturing sites all over the world asked Tria to supply a highly-wear resistant system for the grinding of its plastic scrap. The customer needed to grind large amounts of material with a very high...

The EBB112 twin-screw extruder line, recently developed by Binova, can be used for the immediate compounding, without densifying stage, of film grinding scrap with a particular blend of "reclaim pellets" and/or various reground materials. It is also possible to add calcium carbonate- or talc-based mineral fillers...

The conference "Success with little pressure - MuCell conforming design of components" is scheduled on November 27 and 28 at the Technology Centre of Engel at Schwertberg (Austria). A fast-growing number of companies around the globe are exploiting the flexibility in article and mould...

Petronas, Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas company, and Versalis, Eni’s chemical subsidiary and a global leader in the plastics and elastomers industry, have signed a shareholders’ agreement (SHA) to set up a joint venture company that will manufacture elastomer products produced at Petronas' proposed refinery and petrochemical...

The US stand-up pouch market has seen dramatic growth over the past five years, increasing by 50% in unit volume terms to approaching 17 billion units in 2013. In its new report on the stand-up pouch market, PCI Films Consulting forecasts that US demand for pouches will continue to grow by...

Fausta Coffano has taken over the CFO position for the Gefran Group, which now has four production units: two in Provaglio d'Iseo (Brescia) for sensors and automation components, one in Gerenzano (Varese) for power drives, and one in Shanghai. Born in Brescia, forty-year-old Fausta Coffano...

Exact chose the K 2013 fair to unveil an important plant for the hot recycling of HDPE, LDPE and LLDPE trimmings whose layout includes a haul-off device positioned above the extruder, in such a way as to force the material downwards, thereby guaranteeing a constant feed flow...

The new TOP 1500 D. 930 Easy Power granulator introduced by Folcieri Bruno at K 2013 in Düsseldorf is outfitted with a structure specially developed to meet the needs of particularly intensive production processes that demand high grinding capacity. The solidity distinguishing the TOP range has been...

Winning an important tender which ran during the summer of 2013 until four days before the start of the K fair in Düsseldorf, Friul Filiere has secured one of the biggest orders in its history, worth just under 8 million dollars. Indeed, Friul Filiere, presenting a complex and high-tech project, overcame...

The twenty-third edition of Plast Eurasia 2013 (MacPlas is one of the overseas media partners) will take place in Istanbul from 5 to 8 December, 2013. The trade show is organized by Tuyap and Pagev (Turkish Plastics Industry Foundation) and it will be held in 10 halls at Tuyap Fair, Convention and Congress Center on a total indoor area of...

The Spanish producer of thermoplastic resins Elix Polymers and the Italian distributor Mito Polimeri have signed a strategic agreement that provides, as of the 1st of January 2014, the extension of distribution activities for the Elix ABS brand to the Lombardy region, improving the coverage of the...

On November 1 Husky announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Swiss group Schöttli of Diessenhofen, recognized as a global player in medical and closure mould making. The sale is expected to close in early December. Schöttli is one of the most renowned global...

The global talc producer, Mondo Minerals, and the European specialty chemicals distributor, Grolman, have recently extended their partnership, which already included a distribution agreement for Austria, Benelux, France and Germany. Starting on January 1, 2014, Grolman will also...

The new frontier of Arburg in the plastics processing is called freeformer. The goal of the German manufacturer was to develop a new system for the efficient and mould-less production of limited series of single components. This idea led to an all-new machine and process, which made...

The Spanish firm PET Compania para su Reciclado based in Valencia was recently taken over by the Italian company Dentis, that then completely redesigned and renovated the plant for the recycling of post consumer PET bottles. The new facility was officially opened on October 21, 2013, in the...