Marketing

  • 13 February 2013

    Former Netstal manager at the helm of BMB UK

    Former managing director of Netstal UK, Nigel Baker has now taken the helm of BMB UK and Ireland. Baker left the Swiss company Netstal after its business in the UK was merged...
  • 13 February 2013

    Sipa North America expands further

    Sipa has announced its plans to further expand its US branch, Sipa North America, after its transfer to larger and more functional headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The unit...
  • 13 February 2013

    Polycast plant in operation

    From February 11 to 18, the Colines facility in Nibbia (Novara, Italy) will feature a Polycast plant in operation for the production of 5-layer cast film for lamination and metallization...
  • 13 February 2013

    Italian technology at the America's Cup

    Persico Marine, a company involved in the engineering of competition boats, is one of the sponsors of Team Italy Powered by Stig, the sole Italian challenger at the Red Bull...
  • 13 February 2013

    Multifunctional machining centres

    For high speed machining of plastic and composite materials, as well as high speed milling of resin patterns and prototype moulds, Uniteam offers the new CNC Leader series of...
  • 13 February 2013

    Advanced recycling of heterogeneous waste

    Icma San Giorgio hosts a three-way open house along with its partners Filtec (from Italy) and Ettlinger (from Germany) at its offices in San Giorgio su Legnano, near Milan, on...
  • 06 February 2013

    A partnership for biorubber

    On 28 January, Versalis entered into a strategic partnership with Yulex, a manufacturer of biomaterials from agricultural sources, to produce guayule...
  • 06 February 2013

    Rubber bellows for cars

    A robotised cell including an injection moulding machine featuring a 12-nozzle temperature-controlled unit with a 12-cavity mould and double series of ...
  • 06 February 2013

    An automation academy

    February 1st saw the inauguration of the Italian Automation Academy at the headquarters of B&R Automazione Industriale in Passirana di Rho (near Milan). Ongoing specialist training and...
  • 06 February 2013

    A new assembly department at Cannon

    A new department for the assembly of large lines for the processing of polyurethane and composite materials was opened by Cannon at its Caronno...
  • 06 February 2013

    Good results for Italian mould exports

    Italian exports of moulds for plastics and rubber (which account for over a quarter of the sector’s overseas sales) held up pretty well throughout the whole of 2012, recording an increase of 17% in the first nine months of the year compared with...
  • 06 February 2013

    Floating cam system for high precision cutting

    Each TRK/D saw model by Sica (Alfonsine, Ravenna, Italy), specifically for cutting in PVC, PP and HDPE corrugated pipe extrusion lines, can be equipped with floating auto-centering cam cutting system. The system guarantees automatic compensation...
  • 06 February 2013

    Thermoforming tests

    Various thermoforming tests on extruded sheets have been carried out at the Amut facilities in Novara using Teldene H03TF, a polypropylene specifically developed by Natpet (National Petrochemical Industry) for processing with this type of technology. The material was...
  • 30 January 2013

    Third edition of Polymer Insights

    The third edition of the “Polymer Insights” conference organized by ChemOrbis is scheduled on May 30, 2013 at the Sheraton Milan Malpensa Airport Hotel & Conference Centre...
  • 30 January 2013

    Indonesian potential

    Italian exports of machines for plastics and rubber processing to Indonesia have registered an impressive average growth rate of 61% over the past quarter. In detail, the period...
  • 30 January 2013

    ReBioFoam: innovative packaging

    Officially inaugurated on the first of February 2009, the ReBioFoam (Renewable Biopolymer Foams) project has reached its goals and the results of four years of research...
  • 30 January 2013

    Growth in Italian blow moulding machines

    Blow moulding machines represent a rather significant portion of Italian exports of plastics and rubber processing machinery and equipment. Istat (the Italian institute for statistics) data...
  • 30 January 2013

    Traditionally at the cutting edge for 35 years

    In 2013 Dega celebrates 35 years in the business, a milestone that places the company among the most long-lived Italian builders of auxiliary equipment for plastics processing. The...
  • 30 January 2013

    Stretch-blow moulding for emerging markets

    Sipa’s new Start Blow range of stretch-blow moulding machines is oriented principally to companies in emerging countries planning to enter the PET bottle market. The machines will...
  • 30 January 2013

    Hybrid machine with IML for disposable cups

    A 220-ton Janus hybrid injection moulding machine is exhibited in operation by Negri Bossi at Interplastica 2013 (Moscow, January 29 - February 1). Equipped with a Sytrama 811...