The petrochemical group Petronas has announced that starting in 2013 it will no longer produce PVC as a result of the scarce contribution of the material to the company’s...
With the inauguration at the Milan Triennale of the exhibition-event "La nostra energia è il futuro" (Our Energy is the Future) on 30 October, Solvay celebrated 100 years of its...
According to statistics of the Indian Rubber Dealers Federation, in the period April-September 2012 the production of natural rubber in India increased by only one percentage...
Dolci Extrusion has put the finishing touches on a plant for the extrusion of 5-layer cast stretch film with a width of 2 metres and thicknesses ranging from 8 to 20 microns...
A major Russian industrial group has recently commissioned Filippini & Paganini (a division of Saldoflex) to build a Flexol unit for 6-colour flexographic printing on packaging film...
Maer presents its new WM500 TC 10 rotary cutting machine for the high-speed, low-cost production of PET large-mouth containers for mayonnaise and sauces...
The "Plastics - The Facts 2012" study on the European plastics industry published every year by PlasticsEurope, EuPC (European Plastics Converters), EuPR...
According to a recent survey conducted by the German Plastics Packaging Industry Association (IK), packaging manufacturers are quite pessimistic about sales...
On October 26, Torninova announced the takeover of the Verona-based company Converting Technology, an Italian manufacturer of flexographic printing lines and owner...
On November 15 and 16, FB Balzanelli will open the doors of its factory in Borgaccio di Saltara, near Pesaro, to introduce the latest entries in its range of winding systems...
X-Rite presented the new SpectraLightQC lighting booth and the new hand-held RM200QC spectrocolorimeter at a press conference last 19 October in Milan...
The third meeting of the European research project SupercleanQ was held at the Fraunhofer Institute in Karlsruhe on October 16-17, 2012. After ten months of activity...
According to forecasts by the Turkish association PAGDER, representing the entire Turkish plastics industry, production of plastic products in 2012 should reach...
A new supercomputer able to perform up to 22 trillion operations per second has just been installed in Moretto’s R&D department. The new equipment is part of a...
On November 6-8, Torninova will open the doors to its production facility in Bastia Umbra (Perugia, Italy) for the final testing of the Coex Bubble-10 3000 line. This is a...
On October 18, 2012 the extraordinary general assembly of Europe’s Association for plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers (Euromap) has set the course for the...
An above-average positive development in bioplastics production capacity has made past projections obsolete. The market of around 1.2 million tonnes in 2011 will see a...
On October 9, Rittal officially unveiled four new production lines at its Valeggio sul Mincio facilities (Verona, Italy). These lines, which required an initial investment of around one...
